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How Big Tobacco is Trying to Steal the Cannabis Industry: The Corporate Hijack No One is Watching Right Now

The wolves are circling the cannabis industry, and they’re wearing familiar sheep’s clothing. Altria Group, the tobacco giant behind Marlboro cigarettes and a century of corporate malfeasance, is positioning itself to dominate legal cannabis using the exact same playbook they used to capture and control the tobacco market in the 1990s. This isn’t just corporate expansion – it’s a calculated theft of an industry that millions of people fought to legalize, often at great personal cost.

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