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RainDog

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Tue Jul 1, 2014, 06:53 PM Jul 2014

Libertarian Politicians move to marijuana industry

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson has been named the CEO of a Nevada-based company that hopes to make medical and recreational marijuana products.

Johnson said Tuesday he was recently named CEO and president of Cannabis Sativa, Inc., and intends to work out of New Mexico to help develop products that are legal in states like Colorado and Washington.

In addition, of Cannabis Sativa announced Tuesday it has acquired marijuana research company Kush and named that company's founder, Steve Kubby, as its chairman.

Kubby was the 1998 Libertarian Party nominee for California governor.

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/25918470/ex-new-mexico-gov-johnson-named-nv-pot-company-ceo


Democrats - take note. If you have people like Cuomo fighting against even medical marijuana, you're not going to win independent votes in places where the liquor lobby (and the drug warriors who defend it - c.f. Kevin Sabet) doesn't have the social power that it does in the northeast.

Western state voters, both Democratic and libertarian, made legalization happen in Colorado. It looks like New Mexico and Nevada may be the next states, after Alaska and Oregon.

...and the northeast just keeps playing those same old tired tunes about reefer madness.
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Libertarian Politicians move to marijuana industry (Original Post) RainDog Jul 2014 OP
america needs a new folk hero, Johhny Pot Seed ;- msongs Jul 2014 #1
Since the female plant is the thing - Carrie Cannabis RainDog Jul 2014 #2
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