Big Marijuana lobby fights legalization efforts

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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/big-marijuana-lobby-fights-legalization-efforts-94816.html

Pot legalization activists are running into an unexpected and ironic opponent in their efforts to make cannabis legal: Big Marijuana.


Medical marijuana is a billion-dollar industry — legal in 18 states, including California, Nevada, Oregon and Maine — and like any entrenched business, it’s fighting to keep what it has and shut competitors out. Dispensary owners, trade associations and groups representing the industry are deeply concerned — and in some cases actively fighting — ballot initiatives and legislation that could wreck their business model.



That pits them against full legalization advocates, who have been hoping to play off wins at the ballot box last fall in Colorado and Washington state that installed among the most permissive pot laws in the world. Activists are hoping to pass full legalization measures in six more states by 2016.




http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/big-marijuana-lobby-fights-legalization-efforts-94816.html
 
Professor Baxter said:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/big-marijuana-lobby-fights-legalization-efforts-94816.html

Pot legalization activists are running into an unexpected and ironic opponent in their efforts to make cannabis legal: Big Marijuana.


Medical marijuana is a billion-dollar industry — legal in 18 states, including California, Nevada, Oregon and Maine — and like any entrenched business, it’s fighting to keep what it has and shut competitors out. Dispensary owners, trade associations and groups representing the industry are deeply concerned — and in some cases actively fighting — ballot initiatives and legislation that could wreck their business model.



That pits them against full legalization advocates, who have been hoping to play off wins at the ballot box last fall in Colorado and Washington state that installed among the most permissive pot laws in the world. Activists are hoping to pass full legalization measures in six more states by 2016.




http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/big-marijuana-lobby-fights-legalization-efforts-94816.html
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I wondered if this would happen, greed strikes, again.
 
This is why libertarians are distrustful of a highly regulated market. It's one of the reasons I used to oppose the idea of medical marijuana, but in the end I don't think they will win as it also threatens to change the interests of traditional drug warriors.
 
It will be legal


its just going to snowball now.

There is BIG money in it.


That means it will all be legal soon.


I bet Obama deschedules it before he leaves office
 
evince said:
It will be legal


its just going to snowball now.

There is BIG money in it.


That means it will all be legal soon.


I bet Obama deschedules it before he leaves office
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I'll take that bet. $1,000 says he doesn't do a damned thing except raid more and more and more.

Plus you obviously aren't reading well. The money making elements are fighting AGAINST legalization
 
because they know what will happen when big pharma gets its hands on it legally.

they will rip every one of these current fenders off.


I don't bet buddy.

it is for fools.

That is how I could live in vegas for over a decade and come back with more money than I went there with.
 
Attila the Hun said:
I'll take that bet. $1,000 says he doesn't do a damned thing except raid more and more and more.

Plus you obviously aren't reading well. The money making elements are fighting AGAINST legalization
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I agree with everything accept her last line. I don't think Obama is likely to bite that bullet, not because he is a dick, but simply because the politics are not likely in his interests.

There is money in full legalization too. There is always an angle for making money. Free and mostly unregulated markets are the most profitable to society in general, but often the economic benefits are so dispersed it is difficult to form a special interest around it. Legalization advocates will just need to leverage new interest groups.
 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/04/04/legalize-it-poll-shows/



By 52 to 45 percent more say marijuana should be made legal than not, with support for legalization jumping seven points in two years and 20 points since the 2002 General Social Survey. Last November, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found the public split 48 to 50 percent on whether to legalize small amounts of marijuana for personal use. And 51 percent of registered voters supported legalization in a December Quinnipiac University poll.
 
evince said:
at that rate when he leaves office it will be 60% pro
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That's all very good and will eventually turn the tide. The problem is that not a whole lot of people are willing to vote on that issue alone or even make it a priority and of those who are it may favor the prohibition side.
 
bullshit.

the very base that the republican party tries to keep from voting every election is the very population that wants it legal.


the republican cant cheat enough to even win anymore.

That is why Rove was saying robmoney was going to win by 5%.

then he found out that people didn't allow themselves to be tricked out of voting like he had hoped.

The courts didn't do their bidding and they got their programs to keep people from voting challenged
 
This current republican part will die or change.

either way the tea party type idiots are done.

No one will be willing to give them money or power anymore.
 
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