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Tobacco, alcohol, and pharma lobbies combined === a lot of cash. What's funny to me is that they chose prohibition instead of taking advantage of how much people want it and giving the government a cut like they do with all their other products.


You're forgetting prison lobbies. But it's a lot easier to grow your own cannabis than your own Xanax.




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