On Marijuana, Hillary Clinton Sides with Big Pharma Over Young Voters

[pinebox]

This one is going to sting. BAD!

I live in Colorado. This will be a very hot button issue here and this could very well give Bernie a very big win here alone. Colorado has a massive windfall of cash from the pot industry and my state should be seen as an example that it can indeed be done. Keep in mind too that some of Hillary's biggest donors are the private prison industry.

On Marijuana, Hillary Clinton Sides with Big Pharma Over Young Voters
http://marijuanapolitics.com/on-marijuana-hillary-clinton-sides-with-big-pharma-over-young-voters/

While 77% of young Democrats believe marijuana should be legal, Hillary Clinton is unwilling to support meaningful marijuana reforms. She’s opposed decriminalizing marijuana during her previous presidential run and has given little indication that she changed her position on the issue since. Today, Clinton will only go so far as to support the rescheduling of marijuana to Schedule II, giving it the same legal status as cocaine and methamphetamine.

It’s unlikely that Clinton’s reluctance to embrace marijuana law reform will help her gain popularity among young voters. But her positions on this issue are certainly in line with the interests of a key ally of hers: Big Pharma.

Despite naming the pharmaceutical industry as one of her greatest “enemies,” Hillary Clinton has received more money from drug companies than any other candidate this cycle. Pharmaceutical manufacturers donated more than $340,000 for her 2008 presidential bid – and in just the first six months of her 2016 campaign, Clinton has received over $160,000 from drug companies. To top it off, Big Pharma giants Pfizer and Proctor & Gamble each have donated between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation. And that’s likely just the tip of the iceberg, as Clinton enjoys the support of numerous Super PACs whose finances are notoriously obscure.

Big Pharma has a lot to lose from marijuana reform. The medical properties of marijuana make it a direct competitor with some of their best-selling drugs, namely opioid painkillers like Vicodin and Oxycontin. Recent research suggests that marijuana allows patients to treat their pain with lower doses of opioids and that providing access to marijuana reduces the prevalence of opioid use. Additionally, marijuana cannot be patented, making it difficult for drug companies to profit off its sale.

[Uncle Joe]

1. Make no mistake about it, this is a civil rights and moral issue.

Thanks for the thread, pinebox.

[jillan]

2. People say Bernie is too old. No. It is people with OLD IDEAS that are old.

This infuriates me! I have a family member with chronic pain. We are turning to mmj as an alternative to opioids.
It is so expensive but I don't care.

Legalize it already so people can live a better life! And get Big Pharma out of the way.

[Gregorian]

3. This needs to be pasted everywhere. Get young eyes on this.

If they see this, she's toast as far as young voters are concerned.

[beltanefauve]

4. Giving this

a K&R

[Warren DeMontague]

5. "Yay Drug War!"