Oh really?
From the link:
To repeat: McCain’s father-in-law was the top lieutenant for Kemper Marley, the Lansky syndicate’s chief Arizona operative who acted, in turn, as the front man for the Bronfman family—key players in the Lansky syndicate.
During Prohibition, the Canadian-based Bronfmans supplied—and thus controlled—the “spigot” of liquor funneled to Lansky syndicate functionaries in the United States, including Al Capone in Chicago.
After Prohibition, Lansky-Bronfman associates such as Marley got control of a substantial portion of liquor (and beer) distribution across the country. Marley’s longtime public relations man, Al Lizanitz, revealed that it was the Bronfmans who set Marley up in the alcohol business.
There you have it in the last paragraph above. The mafia got control and so it is certainly likely that you will be handing contol to the Drug Lords, the Columbian Cartels who have been terrorizing Mexico. This is what you are letting in the door.
And don't give us that line about pot heads growing and rolling their own. Sure some will but the vast majority will be buying retail from the network just as tobacco users do now. Very few grow their own tobacco and roll it. And very few alcohol users have their own stills and breweries.
So think about it. You will be rewarding really bad people who won't stop affecting your life and the lives of others once they have control of pot distribution.
For example, look how they strike fear even to those that have fled the terrorism for the 'safety' of the USA:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2853263/posts
There you have it in the last paragraph above. The mafia got control
No, they got control of "a substantial portion" - how "substantial" is not reported.
and so it is certainly likely that you will be handing contol to the Drug Lords, the Columbian Cartels who have been terrorizing Mexico.
Putting aside whether nonresident noncitizens will be able to invest in these legal businesses, at most they'd own a "substantial" (whatever that means) share of the distribution business - no room there for "lacing with addictive additives," any more than alcohol distibutors do now.
And if cartels are able and eager to invest in legal US businesses, why haven't they done so already?
Readers of this thread are invited to weigh for themselves the credibility of this claim (for which I can find no independent substantiation) in light of the author - below - and the site, which has a "Revisionist History" link.
'Michael Collins Piper is the author of Final Judgment, the controversial “underground bestseller” documenting the collaboration of Israeli intelligence in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He is also the author of The High Priests of War, The New Jerusalem, Dirty Secrets, The Judas Goats: The Enemy Within and The Golem: Israel’s Nuclear Hell Bomb.'
I've been lurking this debate. In this instance you are comparing oranges to apples. The vast majority would grow their own because it's just a dang weed needing little to no effort.
I don't grow it nor do I smoke it, but we do make our own wine! ;-)
If any FReepers would like to hear from a source more credible than a Holocaust-denying Web site:
"The lush traffic in alcohol beverages during the violent years of 1920 to 1933 had laid the base of organization for a number of criminal gangs. The termination of the ban on liquor deprived these gangs of their most lucrative source of money and they were obliged to turn to some other avenue of activity." - Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce