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stillwaiting Donating Member (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-11 03:36 PM
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88. Unfortunately it's not just the private prisons that are making tons of money on the system
Large companies are handsomely profiting off of the prison labor they obtain from our jailed citizens.

I have absolutely no idea why this is legal.

To legalize marijuana (much less drugs) we'd have to overcome the following industries and their lobbyists:
Private prisons
Paper companies
Pharmaceutical companies
All industry surrounding our "war on drugs"
+ potentially all industries that obtain prison labor for near free

AND Right wing social conservatives

Daunting, but we must carry forward.
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