Does anyone have hard data

[F4lconF16]

On who funds the anti-legalization movement? Looking for PAC names, corps, etc. Donation amounts and ties to individuals would be great.

[merrily]

1. No, but I'd put money on the prescription drug industry.

[GReedDiamond]

2. I don't know, but I would start w/the usual suspects...

...big tobacco, alcohol, and pharmaceutical transnational corporations.

And the for-profit private prison industry.

Just a guess.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Sheldon Adelson.

One thing I will say, though, if the recent campaign $ #s for Oregon's Prop. 91 are any indication, the prohibitionists are being vastly outspent.

[F4lconF16]

4. True that.

Right on, Oregon.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Some of that may have been a recognition that the outcome was pretty much inevitable.

To which, again, right on Oregon.

[jtuck004]

6. The feds, and others, give out big, big money to fight the imaginary scourge.

That provides a powerful motivation to continue the status quo, and provides an active training ground for opponents.

[jomin41]

7. sadly enough, a union

The California prison guards union has, in the past anyway, aggressively lobbied against reform. I think other states as well. Also organizations involved with the "Treatment Complex". Barry MacCaffrey comes to mind. I think a lot of the financial support for prohibition is in the form of political contributions to politicians but not identified particularly, as such. Part of the "traditional values&quot tm) package. Rupert Murdock? People with bucks and agendas.

Party On!

[SHRED]

8. top 5

http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuana-lobby-illegal/