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In all of the cases in this article these companies seem to be giving money to keep marijuana illegal, because throwing people in prison for victimless marijuana crimes seems to make the corporations wealthy.

In the case of Services Group of America, the more people that are in prison, the more money they will make. I suspect that is why they want to keep marijuana illegal. To keep the prison population up.

Insys Therapeutics seems to want to keep marijuana illegal because it would cut into the profits of the opiate drugs it sells. I think Insys Therapeutics also has some marijuana based patents or products too that legal marijuana would cut into the profits of.

And of course the Arizona Wine and Spirits Wholesale Association doesn't want marijuana legalized because it will cut into the profits of the alcohol based products it sell. Despite the fact that marijuana is much safer then alcohol.

As for me, I support legalizing ALL drugs. But i am against Prop 205 because it doesn't fully legalize marijuana. Prop 205 is basically about giving the existing 85 or so medical marijuana dispensaries which already have a monopoly on selling medical marijuana, a second monopoly on selling recreational marijuana. Prop 205 uses felony jail sentences to jail anybody that cuts into the profits of the companies which will get this recreational marijuana monopoly.

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Company Funds Legal Marijuana Opposition

By Tom Angell on October 11th, 2016 at 7:10 am | Updated: October 11th, 2016 at 7:48 am

Law & Politics

A company that makes money selling food to prisons is helping to bankroll the effort to defeat marijuana legalization, a review of new campaign finance records shows.

Services Group of America, whose subsidiary Food Services of America prepares meals for correctional facilities, gave $80,000 late last month to a campaign committee opposing the legal cannabis measure on Arizona’s November ballot.

Also giving big to keep cannabis prohibition on the books in Arizona is the state Chamber of Commerce, which dropped $498,000 into the campaign last week.

The new donations are on top of the $500,000 that opioid maker Insys Therapeutics gave in late August to oppose legalization in Arizona. The alcohol industry is on board, too: The Arizona Wine and Spirits Wholesale Association donated $10,000 earlier this year. And SAM Action, the campaign arm of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, contributed $115,000 last week.

But the support from Services Group of America in particular raises questions about the company’s interest in maintaining prohibition. If marijuana were legalized and fewer people were arrested, charged and sentenced to prison for it, there’d likely be fewer mouths behind bars for Food Services of America to feed.

The company has been accused of preparing meals that don’t provide people in prison with sufficient nutrition.

Together, the three meals amount to 1,782 calories, far fewer than the 2,400 to 2,800 calories per day the U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends for moderately active adult men.

Despite that, the company seems to think very highly of itself, at least as depicted in this promotional video positioning its operations as quite wholesome.

“In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to forget the important things in life: The things that got us where we are today,” the narrator says, just before showing the company’s chairman fist-bumping a delivery driver.

Curiously, though, the six-minute video doesn’t mention the company’s prison business, focusing instead on how it supplies meals across “the complete range of food service operations, from fine dining to delis, from schools to hospitals, from military installations to cruise ships.”

The most recent poll, released Monday, shows the Arizona marijuana legalization measure trailing among likely voters, with 43 percent in support compared to 47 percent opposed.

A separate survey last month found the initiative, Proposition 205, leading 50 percent to 40 percent.