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Big Pharma’s Cannabis Takeover: The Hidden Dangers of Schedule III

The fastest way to build a legal cannabis industry that looks exactly like every other captured American industry is for independent operators to sell out the moment a number gets big enough. Freedom and capitalism, in their best form, depend on markets with real competition and multiple viable paths to success. A market controlled by four or five multinational conglomerates isn’t capitalism. It’s what capitalism turns into when nobody defends the alternative.

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