Rep Rohrabacher: WH to unveil new marijuana reforms after election

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(10-12-2018, 01:07 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I'd be pretty surprised, since it's going to take money from giant industries and legacy conglomerates and lobbyists and so on, isn't it?  Big pharma hain't gonna like this...

Personally, I find the idea of "vote for us and then you'll see what we do" to be a bit of a cheap move.

It's possible. 

I was just talking to Rep. Comer about Trump's push to expand ethanol production. The nutshell is Bush-era folks passed regulations that allowed for ethanol production and required blending to offset unstable gas prices.... but prohibited it during the summer (when demand for gasoline is the highest) so that oil companies would still be able to gouge consumers.

Trump expanded e15 production in the last couple weeks, which doesn't mean a ton outside of helping to stabilize gas prices a little. It did, however, take away from the oil industry, which is one of the biggest lobbying groups. 

Granted, they got a boost with the piece of crap that is New NAFTA, so maybe it was just a tradeoff.