Is Hillary Clinton Bluffing On Her Marijuana Policy Stance?

[Electric Monk]

http://www.theweedblog.com/is-hillary-clinton-bluffing-on-her-marijuana-policy-stance/

https://cannabis.net/blog/opinion/is-hillary-clinton-bluffing-marijuana-fans-to-get-their-vote

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Hillary Clinton has recently become enamored by her trail of battles as a champion of progressive causes; but wants to ignore her career as a corporate lawyer and a friend of big pharma, for profit prisons, and tough drug enforcement. Whether you say ‘qui bono’ or the follow the money Hillary’s history and donor lists point to a big business friendly candidate. Where it thrives, recreational marijuana is an entrepreneurial treasure that challenges many entrenched business interests. Locally here in Oregon I can see the hand of our powerful bar and restaurant lobby working to keep us from having smoking clubs, I can also see the way new grower regulations are designed to force more patients to use the dispensaries rather than a direct grower to patient arrangement.

The invisible hand of the free market feels more and more like a creepy uncle the more it caresses my medicine of choice. Whatever gains are made in opening the medical market by rescheduling marijuana are going to go to big pharmaceutical companies that will devise controlled and metered and overpriced methods of providing cannabinoids via inhalation or ingestion. Her schedule 2 marijuana will mean every medical grow is now subject to FDA regulation. Every dispensary will need an on hand licenced pharmacist. The regulatory burden will force the small local businesses out and invite in the big retailers who already cope with those burdens and then some; retailers like her old client Wal-Mart.

https://cannabis.net/blog/vote/who-has-your-back-the-politics-and-election-of-2016