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Today's Exclusive News from MintPress: Thursday, November 8th
Here are today's exclusive articles straight from MintPress News focused on topics and angles you won’t see anywhere in the corporate media.

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<h2>[Despite Big Pharma’s Heavy Lobbying, Cannabis Legalization Efforts in US Make New Gains](https://www.mintpressnews.com/despite-heavy-lobbying-by-big-pharma-cannabis-legalization-efforts-in-us-make-new-gains/251643/)</h2>
Many industries have a vast financial interest in keeping marijuana prohibition laws on the books including pharmaceutical giants, alcohol lobbies, casinos, and the prison industrial complex.

<h6>by Randi Nord</h6>

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Tell the new AG to remove it off the drug schedule list and reclassify it as medicine legal for purchase over the counter grow it smoke it snort it do whatever you want with it.
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