Article: http://www.weedbeaver.com/heres-list-biggest-donors-anti-pot-lobby/ Like any worthwhile non-profit, the PDFK is funded by special interest groups, which means corporations. By law, the organization must make public its donor list. At the top tier, donations of $250,000 or more, there are eight benefactors. Here are six of them: AbbVie: A biotechnology company responsible for Humira, a drug that treats rheumatoid arthritis and has earned the company more than $10 billion. Consumer Healthcare Products Association: The leading trade and lobbying organization for makers and sellers of over-the-counter drugs and nutritional supplements. CVS: The drug store chain with more than 7,700 locations in the United States. In 2010, a single location in Sanford, Florida, (population 53,000) ordered more than 1.8 million Oxy-Codone pills. Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals: The largest U.S. supplier, by prescription, of opioid pain-killer medications. Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America: One of the biggest and most influential lobbying groups in the United States, representing the interests of 48 pharmaceutical companies. Purdue Pharmaceuticals: Maker of OxyContin.
I'm sure there's a number of alcoholic beverage companies up there too. Granted, I'm biased as alcohol led to a terminal disease that I'll never recover from, but it's a shame to see so many cannabis appreciators give their money and health to that poison. I have cirrhosis of liver and will die without a transplant, which I'm being denied, because I use Medical Cannabis under multiple doctors' recommendations. So please, fellow blades, stick with the safer, better alternative. Choose cannabis. Okay, plea/rant over.
Why would cvs lobby against marijuana? I would think they would want to be selling that shit in store. Also where can I find the complete list and how much people actually gave? And is there maybe a more reliable source than a website called "weed beaver.com"?
Here's the list of Donors: http://www.drugfree.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/donors-funders-R2.pdf Weedbeaver actually gets all of its news stories from "more reliables" sources. http://www.businessinsider.com/police-unions-and-pharmaceutical-companies-fund-anti-marijuana-fight-2014-7 http://marijuana.com/news/2014/10/heres-a-list-of-the-biggest-donors-to-the-anti-pot-lobby/
HBO? I would say that stoners are a very large part of their demographic. Why would they be donating to drug free America? Some of these don't make sense.