After decades of enjoying exclusive gushing glorification and relentless advocacy in a certain genre of music, current trends in legal enactments of certain western countries covering marijuana seem to be echoing the long-held epicurean views of its exponents. Unfortunately, same cannot be said of the purely legit cigarette tobacco as a maze of stiff regulations is enacted as a measure to underscore the perilous health implications it poses to its aficionados—and innocent bystanders alike. Citing various reasons, a relatively appreciable number of jurisdictions have set out to formulate legislations that would seminally decriminalize the possession, sale and use of marijuana, paving a circumscribed latitude for the once highly regarded illicit substance to be used in namely two broad ways: recreational and medical purposes. An article by one Michael Schatman, PhD, “Medical Marijuana: The Imperative of Educating Physicians” (2013, medscape.com) cited a source indicating that “Medical marijuana is legal in 20 states and the District of Columbia, with pending legislation to legalize the drug for medical purposes in 4 others.” In July this year, Uruguay reportedly took a radical approach in joining a bloc of pot-crusading countries such as US (not on the federal level but in some states), Netherlands, Jamaica, North Korea, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Russia, Pakistan etc. A cursory zoom into the legal realm of tobacco use however tells a different tale. Taking a paradoxical approach to the usual way of commemorating world events, the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1987 adopted May 31 on its annual calendar as World No Tobacco Day. The intention is to give tobacco a 24-hour wide berth on this particular day as well as to draw global attention to the ghastly health effects of this “poison.” In furtherance of this anti-tobacco campaign, WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco (WHO FCTC) treaty was born and adopted by the 56th World Health Assembly on 21 May, 2003. The treaty, ratified by 177 member countries is described as one of the “most quickly ratified treaties in United Nations history,” and aims “to protect present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke.” One country, Bhutan, has pushed the legal boundaries further by completely proscribing the cultivation, harvesting, production and sale of tobacco and tobacco products. In March 2012, Brazil also followed suit by becoming the “world's first country to ban all flavored tobacco including menthols.” On the local front, in January 2012, Ghana would join a host of countries-- Russia, US, China, Ireland, Italy, India etc—that would epically tighten its legislation on the sale, advertisement, display, packaging and use of tobacco when it passed the Public Health Act, 2012, Act 851; the Part Six—Tobacco Control Measures--specifically devoted to this quest. As a sequel to this law, the Chief Executive Officer of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in an official edict declared that his regulatory agency, through the arrest and persecution of offenders of this law would “ensure that non-smokers are protected from the tobacco smoke [and] from smokers considering the overwhelming evidence of the harmful effects of breathing tobacco smoke.”