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Explicitly gives them control of the legal pot industry in the seventh largest state in america basically indefinitely. their oligopoly can't be challenged for the next four years, by which point it will be essentially impossible to challenge. so what they're doing is they're setting themselves up as a cartel. and this poses huge problems for the legalization movement, which has been largely organized around issues of social justice. and implicit in that concern is the disproportionate impact of the war on drugs in poor communities. so to see the wealthy set up this kind of arrangement where t...

States. which is basically the rise of big pot. i mean, in your piece you write about the fact that there is millions of dollars in investment capital flowing into big concerns that want to be essentially the starbucks of weed. >> right. i mean, these organizations are coming together all over the country right now. there are two states in which legalization is fully implemented. there are two more states in which it has been passed, it is in the process of being implemented. there is washington, d.c., where legalization was passed but can't be implemented because of interference by the federa...

Investors will get exclusive rights to growing commercial marijuana in ohio if the amendment passes. that arrangement has angered many long-time supporters of marijuana legalization in ohio, who are thus opposing the legalization amendment and decrying what they see as big business, trying to monopolize the state's pot industry. they've joined a strange bedfellows consortium of opponents which also include law enforcement and children's health advocates, who are backing a rival amendment also on the ballot tomorrow that the state's secretary of state says would invalidate the legalization meas...

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