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You are suggesting that special interest groups from the alcohol industry are going to pay the government because they view legal pot as a threat to their industry ... that's just nuts. |
No. Whicker was dead nuts correct. The alcohol industry, as well as the pharmaceutical industry overtly view marijuana as competition. The alcohol industry dumps millions of dollars into special interest groups dedicated to keeping marijuana illegal.
Do you remember the "This is your brain on drugs" commercials? They were produced by an ad agency, disguising itself as a well meaning anti-drug lobby group, known as the PDFA. The commercials were largely financed by alcohol and pharmaceutical companies, and I'll give you just one guess as to why.
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PDFA was the subject of criticism when it was revealed that their federal tax returns showed that they had received several million dollars worth of funding from major pharmaceutical, tobacco and alcohol corporations, an issue which has been linked to the organization's lack of media discouraging the misuse of legal drugs.
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