Missed this one
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Originally posted by lurkette
I'm curious what you all think of the following conspiracy theory, which did not come out of my sick and twisted mind. I read it somewhere else:
Drugs will never be legalized in the U.S. because the criminal drug industry has too much to lose (presumably through the costs of regulation and taxation, competition driving down the prices, market controls, etc.) and would exert financial or other less pleasant persuasive pressures on key government officials (presumably politicians at various levels) to prevent legalization.
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Drugs lords have pocket change compared to big tobacco.
The tobacco companies control the legalization of marijuana. Even if the drug lords somehow wanted to interviene, they wouldn't have a chance. Besides, a politician would much rather be labeled to be in the pocket of big tobacco than a drug lord that orders people be killed because someone's infringing on his turf.