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Originally Posted by Frosty
Jeff, good for you.
Matt: It's funny, Amsterdam has less drug related crime, has less cases of overdoses and has less of a drug problem than here, the morally righteous in your face high horse society.
I still don't see what the big deal is, the industry would be heavily regulated, heavily monitored so it's not like you're gonna be able to go to Wawa and buy a pound of the ****.
The amount of people in jail or having a record for simple possession is ridiculous(and I get it, right now the stuff is illegal and they broke the law).
I have another angle to take here, do you think jail systems WANT MJ to be legal? Hell no, without inmates people have no jobs, private corporations that run the jails(in some states and counties) would lose a ****-ton of revenue.
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I think a big part of it is related to how much we are dependent on tobacco $$ now in addition to how much that industry has done for the US in the past.
Phillip Morris is ****ing huge. Cream cheese on your bagel? PM product. Cadbury cream egg for Easter? Also PM. Their parent company, Altria, had a revenue of 23.6 billion in 2009. That's 2 billion more than the budget of the state of South Carolina and a lot of others. Needless to say, their words carry a lot of weight. Even if they were given 100% rights to MJ distribution the numbers would not be there.