Quote Originally Posted by boaz
good point, i might also add prisons, too, as a for profit high growth industry with a vested interest in cannabis prohibition.
I agree with the notion that oil, timber, medicine lobbies benefit from cannabis being illegal. But how do prisons earn a profit from cannabis being illegal? Certainly prisons grow because of cannabis laws being enforced, but prison growth does not make the government more money, rather it takes away money from the government because it has to feed and house all those people.

Maybe they get profit because they get get free workers to make license plates... but that's about all I can think of.