Re:America Is Giving Away the $30B Medical Marijuana Industry
by Clubber on Thursday March 08, 2018 @08:49AM
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The FOP (Fraternal Order of Police) is a very, very powerful union. Up there with the NRA in terms of political power. Because the FOP as an organization typically endorses the GOP, they were spared all the anti-union rhetoric over the past 40 years. While workers' unions crumbled, the FOP grew in power. Of course they are for the drug war, because that's the majority of what they do. It justifies their existence. Pot is the largest drug seized (by far), so for them, it's an existential fight.
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Re:America Is Giving Away the $30B Medical Marijuana Industry
by kiliantics on Thursday March 08, 2018 @04:05PM
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Yeah, I realise there are a lot of strong lobbies against legalisation, it's just surprising that they are still winning in the face of so much profit.
On the topic of FOP though, I think they are spared anti-union practices because they do not pose the typical threat to entrenched power structures which conventional unions do. They in fact reinforce it and protect the interests of the ruling class, so of course the government supports them.
The FOP is one of the worst players out there. There is a horrifying statistic that over 40% of police officers are known to be domestic abusers[0] and yet the FOP has fought for such criminals to maintain the right to have weapons and to give them positions of authority and the power to use force on others in society. Truly monstrous.