Et Tu, Brute?

Politico's Byron Tau has a hilarious story:

Pot legalization activists are running into an unexpected together with ironic opponent inwards their efforts to brand cannabis legal: Big Marijuana...


Medical marijuana is a billion-dollar manufacture ... together with similar whatever entrenched business, it’s fighting to snuff it along what it has together with near out competitors. Dispensary owners, merchandise associations together with groups representing the manufacture are deeply concerned — together with inwards around cases actively fighting — ballot initiatives together with legislation that could wreck their delineate of piece of job organisation model. ...

...their businesses — nevertheless illegal nether federal constabulary — produce goodness from exclusive monopolies on the correct to sell legal pot... those same federal laws that prohibit growing, selling together with using snuff it along pot prices high.

This spring, the Medical Marijuana Caregivers of Maine joined the park coalition of anti-pot forces that includes active law-enforcement groups, social conservatives together with populace wellness advocates to oppose a country pecker that would legalize possession of minor quantities of the drug.