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The Common Ground Between Advocacy and Business in the Cannabis Industry

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Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 03/13/2015 - 09:00

The growth of the medical marijuana movement presents a unique opportunity for advocacy groups to work hand-in-hand with the business community in order to bring about positive social change. Historically, advocates for important social reforms like the 40-hour week and safer working conditions had an understandably anti-business orientation. But when we're talking about providing greater access to medical marijuana, such an attitude is less than helpful. In fact, it's counter-productive. I believe if that fact were merely recognized and accepted by both medical marijuana activists and the business community, we would be much closer to establishing national acceptance than we are today.

Changing state law to allow access to medical marijuana always starts with advocacy. Most likely groups like NORML will have been agitating for years, and individual patients' rights groups will have formed around specific issues like access for children with epilepsy or veterans with PTSD. Eventually the Marijuana...

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