{"id":2559,"date":"2025-07-09T03:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/how-big-tobacco-is-trying-to-steal-the-cannabis-industry-the-corporate-hijack-no-one-is-watching-right-now\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T03:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:03:43","slug":"how-big-tobacco-is-trying-to-steal-the-cannabis-industry-the-corporate-hijack-no-one-is-watching-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/how-big-tobacco-is-trying-to-steal-the-cannabis-industry-the-corporate-hijack-no-one-is-watching-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"How Big Tobacco is Trying to Steal the Cannabis Industry: The Corporate Hijack No One is Watching Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cannabis.net\/drive\/1000\/3743_MCHd_bigtobaccostealscannabis.jpg?width=200&amp;height=200\"><\/p>\n<p>The wolves are circling the cannabis industry, and they&#8217;re wearing familiar sheep&#8217;s clothing. Altria Group, the tobacco giant behind Marlboro cigarettes and a century of corporate malfeasance, is positioning itself to dominate legal cannabis using the exact same playbook they used to capture and control the tobacco market in the 1990s. This isn&#8217;t just corporate expansion &#8211; it&#8217;s a calculated theft of an industry that millions of people fought to legalize, often at great personal cost.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wolves are circling the cannabis industry, and they&#8217;re wearing familiar sheep&#8217;s clothing. Altria Group, the tobacco giant behind Marlboro cigarettes and a century of corporate malfeasance, is positioning itself to dominate legal cannabis using the exact same playbook they used to capture and control the tobacco market in the 1990s. This isn&#8217;t just corporate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}