By "Radical" Russ Belville on January 25, 2012
(Credit: OpenSecrets.org)
If I had a dollar for every Obama supporter who told me “don’t worry, in the 2nd term,
then he’ll be able to support marijuana reforms, because he won’t have to worry about it being used against him in a re-election campaign,” I’d take them all and donate them to the state legalization campaigns in California, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado.
Tell me how this graphic from OpenSecrets.org – a list of the top recipients of Big Pharma campaign contributions for 2011-2012 – makes that case?
I really hope I am wrong, but my bet on an Obama re-election wouldn’t be on a more liberal policy on marijuana; rather, I’d bet Obama’s crackdown on the medical marijuana industry gets escalated following a 2012 victory.
Posted in ECONOMICS, GOVERNMENT | Tagged 2011, 2012, Big Pharma, campaign, Legalization, obama, Obama 2012
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I was planning to vote for Obama if Romney is the republican candidate, but lately I’m thinking it may make more sense to just vote for Gary Johnson, even knowing he won’t win. Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
that’s exactly it he will be a power trip and blow even more of the HARD WORKING peoples money, I’d like to see him go work on roofing a house or a hundred work like every hard working man in the great nation of america…