The Top Five Special Interest Groups Lobbying to Keep Marijuana Illegal

Intoxiklown said:
I have friends in the medical pot business, and they are making THOUSANDS. There is plenty of money in the legal marijuana business, plenty. May I suggest you take Scarface out of the DVD player?
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Yes, they are making a lot of money in the government controlled monopoly of medical marijuana. Just like pharmaceutical companies are making a lot of money in the FDA controlled drug business.

If you legalized marijuana the price would drop drastically. Eliminate the risk and the reward decreases.
 
Best painkiller ever. (If by best, you mean most effective, that is.)

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I cant hear or read of this topic without hearing this song in the back of my mind.



We see the BATF engaging in business with the drug cartels. This is fact. Its a conspiracy alright, against the American people!
 
DerailingDaTrain said:
Then you would be a hypothetical dick for lobbying to keep marijuana illegal because you couldn't make as much money off of it. You're using the same argument as the people currently lobbying against this.
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It's not my argument. But I know a lot of growers who would be very pissed off if it was legalized
 
John F Kennedy III said:
Everyone's body is different. I used to have high blood pressure, anxiety, depression and sincerely VIOLENT thoughts that took all my will power not to act upon. Once I started smoking marijuana that all went away. And I'm so much more productive now. It really helps me focus.
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I don't think she was arguing that. She was saying that as far as painkillers go, opiates are much more effective than marijuana. And she's right.
 
JebSanderson said:
It's not my argument. But I know a lot of growers who would be very pissed off if it was legalized
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They should get over it. It's not just about them.

You know what they could do? Open up a supply store for all the stuff the people who manufacture it need. Sell them all of that and make bank on all the people trying to cash in on the next gold rush. You think it was the people working their asses off in the river panning for gold that made it rich? Hell no! It was the people selling them the picks, shovels, boots, etc.
 
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Many a times I have wished they still sold cocaine elixir. Benzocaine just doesn't have the same effect for toothaches. Certain products for certain ailments. Marijuana is by far the safest and most effective way to go with minor aches, depression, anxiety, nausea, and a slew of other problems. The only way I would even consider heroin is if I was terminal and in extreme pain. And even then I'd still have to smoke marijuana to offeset the nausea etc.
 
DerailingDaTrain said:
Then you would be a hypothetical dick for lobbying to keep marijuana illegal because you couldn't make as much money off of it. You're using the same argument as the people currently lobbying against this.
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:lol: I absolutely love a Ron Paul supporters sense of humor.
 
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JebSanderson said:
I don't like it. But no, I don't blame people who game the system to their advantage.
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Never thought I'd hear that on RPF. Do you feel the same about those who receive food stamps and sell them? Since they are only "gaming the system to their advantage." Where do you draw the line?
 
kcchiefs6465 said:
Never thought I'd hear that on RPF. Do you feel the same about those who receive food stamps and sell them? Since they are only "gaming the system to their advantage." Where do you draw the line?
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No, I honestly don't blame people on food stamps because the majority of them don't have any other choice. They've been conditioned into dependence on "the system". I blame the system and those who have put it in place and I do want to change it. But I don't blame those who work within the system and use it to their advantage.
 
JebSanderson said:
No, I honestly don't blame people on food stamps because the majority of them don't have any other choice. They've been conditioned into dependence on "the system". I blame the system and those who have put it in place and I do want to change it. But I don't blame those who work within the system and use it to their advantage.
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I totally agree, actually and if RPF posters believe that welfare and food stamps breeds dependence why wouldn't people who game the system be just as "innocent" based on the same principle? We all agree government is the problem (the gaming the system enabler) right?
 
LadyBastiat said:
I totally agree, actually and if RPF posters believe that welfare and food stamps breeds dependence why wouldn't people who game the system be just as "innocent" based on the same principle? We all agree government is the problem (the gaming the system enabler) right?
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I don't know how this became a discussion of food stamps and the welfare state. I was discussing people who are growers lobbying to keep marijuana illegal for their own personal profit when they can just as easily continue to make money if it was legal and if they were innovative they could make even more than they did before. Does anyone here advocate prohibition? (rhetorical question)
 
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