{"id":14333,"date":"2018-02-19T20:25:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T20:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=14333"},"modified":"2018-05-10T19:27:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:27:09","slug":"money-spent-on-marijuana-legalisation-referendums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2018\/02\/money-spent-on-marijuana-legalisation-referendums\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Spent On Marijuana Legalisation Referendums"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Proponents raised $7.6 million to opponents’ $169,000 to legalize marijuana for recreational use, a ratio of 45 to 1. Opponents in Alaska and Oregon could not afford to present other viewpoints in TV commercials. Meanwhile, after just ten months of legal marijuana, five Colorado cities passed amendments to ban the sale of recreational marijuana within their borders. The Republican gubernatorial challenger ran on a platform calling for the repeal of legalization. As citizens\u2019 anger mounts over outsiders sweeping in, getting what they want, and leaving behind a mess for taxpayers to clean up, we are likely to\u00a0see more of that.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alaska Legalizes Recreational Marijuana<\/strong>–You might think the 23 states that have legalized marijuana were responding to citizen demand. You would be wrong. The Drug Policy Alliance and the Marijauna Policy Project, their funders George Soros and the late Peter Lewis, a by-now burgeoning marijuana industry, and an estimated $200 million are behind the drive to legalize marijuana.\u00a0Imagine a Congress where all 435 Representatives and 100 Senators belong to just one party, and you can begin to understand how one-sided marijuana initiatives have been.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0 TheMarijuanaReport.org\u00a0 Nov. 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

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Big Business made a lot of money out of selling tobacco products\u00a0 –\u00a0 and it took many years before the link between smoking and\u00a0 cancer were accepted.\u00a0\u00a0 Big Pharma make a lot of money from selling pharmaceutical drugs.\u00a0 Big Business Mark II intends to make a lot of money out of selling marijuana (cannabis) products \u2013 regardless of the research that now shows this substance is not harmless.<\/span><\/p>\n

The graphics above show just how much money was spent by the proponents of drug legalisation compared to the amounts that those who oppose legalisation were able to muster from grass roots supporters.\u00a0\u00a0 It is not surprising that so many of the American public were hoodwinked into voting for easier access to drugs \u2013 beginning with marijuana but eventually all currently illegal substances.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was much misinformation, errors of omission and emphasis on \u2018 individual freedoms\u2019 \u2013 and no information about scientific research showing the dangers \u2013 particularly to young people \u2013 of using marijuana.<\/span><\/p>\n

Already there are signs of discontent in many places with legalised marijuana \u2013 more driving accidents,\u00a0 more instances of children being made ill from consuming what appeared to be sweets but was in reality marijuana packaged as a candy or chocolate bar \u2026..how long will it be before the<\/span><\/p>\n

Pandora\u2019s Box can be tightly closed ?<\/span><\/p>\n

National Drug Prevention Alliance\u00a0\u00a0 November 2014<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proponents raised $7.6 million to opponents’ $169,000 to legalize marijuana for recreational use, a ratio of 45 to 1. Opponents in Alaska and Oregon could not afford to present other viewpoints in TV commercials. Meanwhile, after just ten months of legal marijuana, five Colorado cities passed amendments to ban the sale of recreational marijuana within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,90,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-global-drug-legalisation-efforts","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}