“Cannabis lobbying groups are arming prohibitionists by demonizing hemp—helping those who have been at war with cannabis for decades… I’ve rarely seen a more self-defeating campaign.”
By Aaron Edelheit, Mindset Capital
Are cannabis organizations working to advance reform? Or are they arming the very prohibitionists who want to stop all THC commerce?
Some regulated cannabis companies and cannabis lobbying groups are hard at work fighting hemp, which they see as unfairly competing with more regulated state-cannabis companies. They celebrated last November when Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) snuck a ban into a government funding bill. But knowingly or not, these same organizations are now working side by side with prohibitionists whose cult-like coalition includes politicians and interest groups who want to keep all cannabinoids illegal.
In my opinion, cannabis lobbying groups are arming prohibitionists by demonizing hemp—helping those who have been at war with cannabis for decades. Today’s prohibitionist movement runs on funding from those who hate THC. Every win against their hated enemy, THC, brings prohibitionists more donations, more influence, more media coverage.
The prohibitionists will do anything to win. Beyond misleading and using scare tactics, they have employed canvassers for the Massachusetts ballot initiative who misled signatories about what
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