Re:The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
by StreamBright on Thursday December 28, 2017 @12:19PM
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Not exactly. If money speaks than the cannabis would be generally accessible in every state because it brings in huge amount of tax to government and income for companies.
Re:The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
by dopamean on Thursday December 28, 2017 @12:31PM
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Money did speak... 90 years ago when interested (and wealthy) parties saw to it that weed be made illegal. It has been banned ever since and so there hasn't been almost any opportunity for the money in the marijuana business to do any speaking. That is the real reason that pharma businesses lobby against legalization of it. Not just because it would hurt their business directly (lost sales) but because weed businesses would be able to legally lobby against pharama's interests.
Re:The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
by orf on Thursday December 28, 2017 @12:34PM
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That's theoretical, infirect future money, not real tangibld, here and now money provided by companies who profit off the war on drugs.
Re:The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
by StreamBright on Thursday December 28, 2017 @03:12PM
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Re:The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
by orf on Thursday December 28, 2017 @03:26PM
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Sure, it's becoming real tangible now money, but that's taken nearly 50 years.
Between 2006 and 2015, Purdue and other painkiller producers, along with their associated nonprofits, spent nearly nine hundred million dollars on lobbying and political contributions—eight times what the gun lobby spent during that period.
And the revolving door:
He had also enlisted Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, and his associate Bernard Kerik to preëmpt any government crackdown.