5 Special Interest Groups That Help Keep Marijuana Illegal
Posted: Fri 4th May 2012 09:05 pm

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/155269/5_ ... a_illegal/
"Last year, over 850,000 people in America were arrested for marijuana-related crimes. Despite public opinion, the medical community, and human rightsexperts all moving in favor of relaxing marijuana prohibition laws, little has changed in terms of policy.
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However, we at Republic Report think it’s worth showing that there are entrenched interest groups that are spending large sums of money to keep our broken drug laws on the books:
1.) Police Unions:
2.) Private Prisons Corporations:
3.) Alcohol and Beer Companies:
4.) Pharmaceutical Corporations:
5.) Prison Guard Unions:"
http://www.republicreport.org/2012/excl ... -on-drugs/