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Bro I think you might need to back off with the ad hominems.
You're getting very worked up about the comments of a memes page on a piece of fiction.
It's not my fault you chose a paper that doesn't back up your own point.
Jackson chose to portray pipe weed as cannabis. Tolkien wrote it as tobacco. Tobacco is incredibly harmful, to portray pipe weed as cannabis rather than tobacco in future adaptations doesn't harm the gist of the story in any way. It adds a bit of fun (like Merry and Pippin stoned out their faces raiding Saruman's stores) and prevents the glorification of what we now know to be an incredibly harmful substance. Tobacco is in the same classification as asbestos for harm, according to the WHO. Would you like to breathe in some asbestos?