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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo is it true that Sessions is taking money from the drug cartels to make marijuana illegal?
After all, prohibition worked out so well for the gangsters. Just think how profitable it would be for the drug cartels if Sessions cracks down on weed.
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So is it true that Sessions is taking money from the drug cartels to make marijuana illegal? (Original Post)
Binkie The Clown
Aug 2017
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Bladewire
(381 posts)1. I wouldn't be surprised TBH
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)2. Drug cartels. You mean like Pharma and liquor companies?
ck4829
(35,077 posts)5. Ah, Insys, the textbook definition of "drug pusher"
In 2015, Oregon settled with an Arizona-based drugmaker -- Insys Therapeutics -- for $1.1 million after accusing the maker of using deceptive marketing to sell the opioid fentanyl.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/08/fed_up_with_overdose_deaths_mu.html
safeinOhio
(32,687 posts)3. Always fun to ask a con about the problems with
The War on Poverty, and when they start to explain, ask if the same isn't true for the War on Drugs.
Hieronymus
(6,039 posts)4. Good point, thanks.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)6. I don't know. People are saying.