WikiLeaks Emails Expose Alcohol Industry’s Paid Campaign to Stifle Pot Legalization

WikiLeaks Emails Expose Alcohol Industry’s Paid Campaign to Stifle Pot Legalisation When the good people at Marijuana.com went through the WikiLeaks dump of the DNC emails, they found something unrelated to the trove of damning information on the criminal Hillary Clinton. Within the mountains of email texts, was a paid segment by the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA), stoking fear within Washington, encouraging politicians to be wary of marijuana legalization. While the paid segment is not as fantastical as some of the claims coming from the reefer madness crowd, they are basing their paid propaganda on entirely skewed data. Lobbying by "interested parties" is a real problem when there is no transparency at all, and big money to back it. Regardless of the issues of lobbying though, alcohol still seems to pose a far bigger risk than pot. See http://ift.tt/2aJonP7