Who Loses If Pot Is Legalized?

by Thomas Wellborn

Who stands to lose if pot is legalized?  I did some simple, preliminary digging and uncovered the usual suspects.

Private Prisons

• Spend Millions On Lobbying To Put More People In Jail
• Decriminalizing Pot Will Reduce Prison Population, Have No Adverse Impact On Public Safety, Study Says Special Release: Marijuana Arrests For Year 2001 Second Highest Ever Despite Feds’ War On Terror, FBI Report Reveals

NRA, Gun Lobby, Gun Manufacturers

• ATF says most illegal guns in Mexico originate in US
• Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico – CBS News
• The firearms industry has a stranglehold on Congress and state legislatures around the country
• Once again, the gun lobby escapes common-sense regulation
• Alcohol Lobby Now Openly Spending Against CA’s Legal Pot Initiative in Alliance with Police Industrial Complex
• California’s Alcohol Lobby Spends Big Bucks To Buy Big Results

Politicians (Gun Manufacturing & Alcohol Lobbying Money)

Law Enforcement (Kickbacks And Theft From Dealers)

• Philly Police Charged With Robbing Drug Dealers And Selling Drugs
• More Police Officers Suspected In Corruption Scheme

Drug Dealers & Farmers – Obvious

Pharmaceutical Industry (Treatment for Cancer, Pain, ADHD, etc)

• Who is secretly working to keep pot illegal?

Alcohol Industry

• What the Pot Legalization Campaign really threatens: Alcohol
• California Pot Initiative Opposed by bear industry

This pretty much explains how the “War on Drugs” certainly isn’t a failure in any sense of the word for many.

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