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Because in US money speaks: Between 2006 and 2015, Purdue and other painkiller producers, along with their associated nonprofits, spent nearly nine hundred mil
by 21 9y ago
Because in US money speaks:
Between 2006 and 2015, Purdue and other painkiller producers, along with their associated nonprofits, spent nearly nine hundred million dollars on lobbying and political contributions—eight times what the gun lobby spent during that period.
And the revolving door:
He had also enlisted Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, and his associate Bernard Kerik to preëmpt any government crackdown.
- StreamBright 9y agoNot exactly. If money speaks than the cannabis would be generally accessible in every state because it brings in huge amount of tax to government and income for companies.
- dopamean 9y agoMoney did speak... 90 years ago when interested (and wealthy) parties saw to it that weed be made illegal. It has been banned ever since and so there hasn't been almost any opportunity for the money in the marijuana business to do any speaking. That is the real reason that pharma businesses lobby against legalization of it. Not just because it would hurt their business directly (lost sales) but because weed businesses would be able to legally lobby against pharama's interests.
- orf 9y agoThat's theoretical, infirect future money, not real tangibld, here and now money provided by companies who profit off the war on drugs.
- StreamBright 9y agoTotally: http://fortune.com/2016/12/13/colorado-billion-legal-marijuana-sales/ http://fortune.com/2016/12/13/colorado-billion-legal-marijua...
- orf 9y agoSure, it's becoming real tangible now money, but that's taken nearly 50 years.
- iak8god 9y agoOpenSecrets.org Influence & Lobbying / Lobbying / Industry: Pharmaceuticals/Health Products https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=h04 https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=h04