Like I don’t even think it’s a pharma lobby issue anymore. They’ll just acquire nascent marijuana companies. The people around Biden are just that ideological?
Edit: I think @Baoist has a point about this stealing media attention from Covid outbreak and Biden going with herd immunity
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