Like Dagney, I think it is mostly about pharmaceutical companies, after all the Feds like marinol even though it is less effective. The same thing drives the world-wide shortage of opiates while we're spraying opium fields in Afghanistan. Hmmm... business and government working together to bar competition in the marketplace, mixing in a dose of nationalism and a heavily militarized economy, sounds familiar...
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