re: DEA announces that marijuana will remain a Schedule 1 drug - like LSD & heroin

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They are waiting for Big Tobacco to get a huge foothold in the weed growing business before they decriminalize it.

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Probably not the companies themselves. But I'm sure the executives are getting involved as private investors. Colorado recently passed a legislation that allows out if state residents to invest in the industry. That means reefer is going corporate.

And it's no surprise at all to anyone paying attention. I've been seeing dispensaries consolidate all over Denver. The big guys buy out the smaller places to get their licenses. Most cities have passed out all her licenses they'll allow.

There's even brands own marijuana being sold. I've seen snoop's brand being sold. Anyone that's smart and has very large amounts of money to invest, is either already involved, or is getting ready for when their states legalize recreational.

not sorry if already posted

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"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

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John Ehrlichman, Nixon White House Domestic Affairs Advisor, on the War on drugs in a Harper's Magazine interview in 1994