hey guys.... first of all, they would make plenty of money off of it were it to be legal.... cigarettes only cost around .45 per pack from the maker.. the rest is tax by federal, state, county taxes... and you guys think the government is so bad??? wtf??? most of people here in south florida fled their countries cause the gov't was so bad or came here for the opportunity of a new life. living in the USA you have a lot more freedoms than you have anywhere else. i'm from amsterdam myself and yeah you can smoke weed and a couple other things but you know what..... that's only in a certain part of town and god forbid you step out of those boundries with any type of drug... plus there are no police brutality laws so people get the shit kicked out of them all the time, no false imprisonment laws, so if you get arrested by mistake, tough shit... the taxes are a lot higher, not to mention cost of living and plenty of other things. but you don't hear about it.. why, cause you don't have the same free speech laws you have here, so the media can be hushed at any time. so before you run around saying this country and it's government sucks because you cant go to eckerd's and buy pills remember why you left where you did...