Big Marijuana fights legalization efforts

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The medical marijuana industry is giving a great lesson in the inherent imperfections of the free market, sure to be overlooked by pot smoking small-l libertarians. You cannot separate the idea of a perfectly free market that theoretically fixes its own mistakes with its actors, being imperfect humans, who are driven to corrupt the market for potential gain and/or security. There is a delicate balancing act that needs to take place between business and its lobbyists with government and the public good, or greed will always win.

Anyway, it's a strange situation. If I were a manufacturer in the medical marijuana industry, I'd be keen to expand into a much larger market, and I'd buy out or contract with underground producers who are keen and not too weird. Well, I'd like to think I would.