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Alcohol Lobby Now Openly Spending Against CA’s Legal Pot Initiative in Alliance with Police Industrial Complex

It is said that politics makes strange bedfellows, but there are arguably few stranger than the emerging alliance between two of California’s most powerful political players: the police-industrial complex and Big Alcohol. Campaign finance reports from the Golden State disclose that the California Beer and Beverage Distributors – a trade organization that represents over 100 beer distributors statewide – is one of the primary backers of the lobby group Public Safety First, sponsors of the No on Prop. 19 campaign.

Some folks just can’t abide competition. Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em, I say. Then have a glass of home brewed beer. Fuck ‘em.


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