Arizona: Prison Meal Service Donates $80,000 to Anti-Marijuana Ca

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Arizona: Prison Meal Service Donates $80,000 to Anti-Marijuana Campaign

Company is likely concerned legal marijuana will eat into profits.

 

The campaign aimed at preventing marijuana from being legalized this year in Arizona just received a super sleazy donation from a company that makes its living selling meals to prisons.

 

Campaign finance records show that Services Group of America, one of the largest food service companies in the United States, recently contributed $80,000 to the weasels working to maintain the prohibitionary standard in the Copper State. The documents, which were initially dug up by Tom Angell over at Marijuana.com, suggest the company could be concerned it will have fewer prisoners to feed if voters approve a ballot measure this November to legalize a recreational cannabis trade in Arizona. 

 

Some of the latest statistics show that 88 percent of all marijuana arrests in the United States are for small time possession. If Arizona voters approved Proposition 205 next month, the cultivation, possession and use of marijuana would be legal all across the state – making it no longer necessary for the system to give people a taste of prison food for simply holding a little weed.

 

Services Group of America’s donation is just the latest to come from the pockets of the usual suspects opposing legalization, who are collectively pooling together millions of dollars for television ads in hopes of stopping Proposition 205 dead in its tracks.

 

Both the pharmaceutical industry (Insys Therapeutics - $500,000) and the alcohol industry (Arizona Wine and Spirits Wholesale Association - $10,000) have invested their fair share of funds to protect the sanctity of their respective bottom line. It makes sense that a company profiting from the imprisonment of others would want to do everything in its power to prevent marijuana from being recognized as a part of the state’s legitimate commerce.

 

Some of the latest polls show support for Proposition 205 somewhere between 43 and 50 percent, which might not be enough padding to thwart the opposition once they begin bombarding media outlets across the state with advertisements pointing out the supposed perils of legalization.

 

Barrett Marson, spokesperson for the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol campaign, says his group is working to raise additional funds to drive Proposition 205 over the edge. Most of the group’s campaign dollars thus far have come from the Marijuana Policy Project as well as the state’s medical marijuana community.

 

Sadly, marijuana legalization campaigns seem to be struggling this year to raise enough money to run successful campaigns. And they don’t appear to be getting too much help from the cannabis industry.

 

A recent poll conducted by Marijuana Business Daily shows that a lot of cannabis companies are simply not willing to lend financial support to campaigns aimed at legalizing marijuana. Thirty-seven percent of the executives running marijuana operations said they are “not sure” whether they will donate any money to groups looking to legalize in 2016. Another 20 percent said they had no plans whatsoever to further the cause.

 

Source: www.merryjane.com

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cool Edited October 16, 2016 by Serrated edge

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How is that cool , it's fucked

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I think it's cool that it's even being considered recreationally

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"In October 2013, the incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the world, at 716 per 100,000 of the national population. While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners."

 

"Land of the (what?)"  Anyway that is so, soooo fucked up... where can I buy stocks in Private Prison?!?

Edited August 10, 2017 by alienpuppy