PHARMA SCAM = KILLS 100,000+ AMERICANS + FUNDS WAR ON MARIJUANA + DRUGS = MINIMIZES COMPETITION BUT COSTS LIVES

Representative Cohen = Most vociferous opponents of Marijuana reform live OFF pot prohibition = THE DRUG WAR + BIG PHARMA SCAM THAT KILLS 100,000+ AMERICANS EACH YEAR!

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CRIMINAL BIG PHARMA THAT KILLS 100,000+ AMERICANS EACH YEAR = SPONSORS FRAUDSTERS = CADCA (BIG PHARMA DRUG WAR MONGERS) + Partnership for Drug-Free Kids (ALSO DRUG WAR MONGERS FOR BIG PHARMA) = BIG PHARMA DONORS = Purdue Pharma (OxyContin Opioid) + Abbott Laboratories (Opioid Vicodin) + Alkermes (Zohydrol – NATIONWIDE PROTEST) + Janssen Pharmaceutical Johnson & Johnson (Nucynta) + Pfizer (Several opioid products)

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Patrick Kennedy = Son of Ted Kennedy = Stints in rehab after crashing his car into a barricade on Capitol Hill in 2006 = Abusing prescription drugs = OxyContin = Substance abuse is a cornerstone of his political agenda = HE FIGHTS AGAINST MARIJUANA (THAT KILLS NONE) IN FAVOR OF 100,000+ KILLERS IN BIG PHARMA THAT CAUSED HIM TO GO TO REHAB! = VERY ODD INDEED!

Kennedy goes on stage to OPPOSE MARIJUANA = Community Anti-Drug Coalition of America (CADCA) = SPONSORED BY BIG PHARMA TO MINIMIZE COMPETITION FOR THEIR KILLER DRUGS! = Purdue Pharma = Oxy-Contin + US # 1 USER OF oxycodone + 100% of hydrocodone opioids = 1,000 Kentucky residents are dying every year = CADCA event was attended by representatives of pharmaceutical firms + Nonprofits funded by federal drug-prevention grants + Federal officials in DRUG WAR BUSINESS! + Partnership for Drug-Free Kids heavily reliant on federal drug-prevention grants + BIG Pharma = CRIMINAL “war on drugs” CLAN = CADCA GOT $2.5 million in annual federal funding = “This is your brain on drugs” public service announcements GETS BIG MIDDLE CLASS Taxpayer support

CADCA = FAVORS BIG PHARMA Prescription drugs = FAKES CONCERN WITH PROVEN USELESS Educational campaigns. = 42 Leading drug-prevention groups sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration to protest the recent approval of Zohydro (KILLER BIG PHARMA DRUG)

CADCA sponsored Bill by Senator Ed Markey = Civil-liability exemption to those who provide preventative medications to individuals experiencing an overdose. = CRIMINAL INTENT!

CADCA + Partnership = A FRONT FOR BIG PHARMA FRAUD AND MURDER = Opposes any restrictions that could eat into the BIG PHARMA’S profits. = THESE anti-drug groups REFUSED TO SIGN ON to support the Safe Prescribing Act, which would move hydrocodone products like Vicodin and Lortab from Schedule III to Schedule II, making the product more difficult to prescribe. + REFUSED TO SUPPORT BILLS introduced by Representative Hal Rogers or Senator Joe Manchin to block the approval of new, stronger pain-killer drugs such as Zohydro. = CRIMINALS PROTECTING CRIMINAL hydrocodone KILLERS! = WORST BIG PHARMA DRUG MURDER IN HISTORY PROTECTED! = “when we have a severe epidemic in America—one the CDC says is the worst drug epidemic in US history—it makes you wonder whether or not they’ve been influenced by their funding.” = $100s OF BILLIONS/Year IN KILLER DRUG PROFITS! = Purdue $27 Billion CEO paid $634.5 million in fines for deceptive marketing + illegally encouraged doctors to overprescribe the drug.

Marijuana = Provides a “great alternative for treating chronic pain and other types of ailments.” BUT BIG PHARMA “doesn’t want to see another vendor on the market.”

CADCA = Prescription drugs serve a legitimate life-saving purpose in our society. = CADCA action alert to its members = Contact Congress to have DEA target medical marijuana operations that are legal under state law = BUT BIG PHARMA FAILED with bipartisan support

Patrick Kennedy’s Project Sam = Most OUTRAGEOUS visible group opposing marijuana-law reform = OxyCotin ADDICT! = Rife with potential conflicts of interest. = Demonstrators against Project SAM in Anchorage paraded a giant check with the figure $9,015 = Campaign money Kennedy received from the liquor and beer lobby while in office to prevent competition from Marijuana = ANOTHER interest groups that stands to profit from marijuana’s continued prohibition.

Dr. Stuart Gitlow, president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, sits on Project SAM’s board of directors and frequently speaks out against medical marijuana. = “There’s no benefit to marijuana. It’s simply that people want the freedom to be stoned. That’s all it is. And there’s a great deal of risk.” = Gitlow SUPPORTS Zubsolv = Opioid substitute + Suboxone = Often abused for recreational purposes. = 400+ Deaths in USA/ year.  16,000 Opioid deaths / year in America.

Peter Bensinger + Robert DuPont (former White House drug czar) = Workplace drug testing COMPANY = Signed on to a Project SAM letter WANTING enforcement of federal drug laws TO STOP COLORADO AND WASHINGTON MARIJUANA SALES!

66% of POLICE Officers = Believed marijuana laws should be reformed = 36% WANT LEGALIZATION!

POLICE Agencies = GAIN $1 billion from marijuana arrests (DOJ REPORTS) = POLICE EXECUTIVES LOVE THAT LOOT!

Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Program = Grants $2.4+ Billion to POLICE = POLICE EXECUTIVES LOVE THAT LOOT! = “It’s money,” says retired LA Police Deputy Chief when asked why so many police organizations are lobbying against marijuana-law reform. = “city government expects police to make seizures, and they expect these seizures to supplement their budgets.” = asset-forfeiture revenues will decrease as a result of marijuana legalization. = Part of the debate. + Police lobbyists want to KEEP FEDERAL GRANTS = “concern about losing federal grants tied to drug enforcement laws” = “absolute opposition” but changed their position after widespread public pressure. = “lot of money attached to enforcing marijuana laws.” = 60% of all DRUG ARRESTS! = BIG BUSINESS!

Retired LAPD deputy chief = “The only difference now compared to the times of alcohol prohibition is that, in the times of alcohol prohibition, law enforcement—the police and judges—got their money in brown paper bags.” NOW IT IS LEGALIZED FRAUD! = LOBBYING FRAUDS HELP KEEP IT THAT WAY!

Prohibition, the Eighteenth Amendment = NO Progressive-era civil service exams = Awarding patronage jobs to political allies = CRONIE FRAUD = “most extraordinary collection of political hacks, hangers-on, and passing highwaymen got appointed as prohibition agents.” = Killed innocent civilians + Extorted money from bootleggers rather than arresting them.

Prohibition provides “an incentive for these interest groups to keep seeking federal money to continue the ‘war on drugs’ [and] their own salaries,” says Representative Steve Cohen, one of the most outspoken proponents of legalization in Congress.