Yes! In fact, benefits can be achieved by Increasing the number of users while greatly Decreasing consumption per user! This merely requires replacing the habit of “smoking a Joint” (often 500-mg or more per light-up) by 25-mg single tokes from a flexdrawtube one-hitter or other vaporizing device. (Thus the photo atop this article is unfortunate: “to children whose parents followed advice to keep them ignorant about cannabis, every Joint and every picture of a Joint is a $igarette advertisement… “– gateway drug to nicotine addiction.)

Instead of bureaucratic hovering over the individual and enforcing rules, regulation can be rationally built into the equipment used, in the form of Dosage Control. Consider the merit of requiring dispensaries to sell weed only to customers who show they possess a moderation utensil or buy one along with the cannabis. If this spreads over into the tobacco using population (1.2 billion worldwide, 6 million deaths a year) it could be the public health triumph of the century, winning honor and respect for wise, progressive cannabis users.