First Liquor Trade Group in the Country Endorses Marijuana Legalization

It has been reiterated many times by many people that a legal cannabis industry is going to challenge the dominance of an old and established liquor operations. Alcohol businesses are aware of this threat and hence they often found lobbying against the legalization measures in different states.

However, with the evolving cannabis landscape, it seems like the alcohol industry is also gradually accepting the legitimacy of the strain. Recently, the first alcohol trade group in the country has recognized the states’ right to legalize cannabis.

The Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA), a body that represents 80 percent of the alcohol wholesale market of the country, have a drastic change in its policy. It has demanded the federal government to not interfere in the states’ matter of legalization. The press release issued by the group mentions that the collective legal cannabis operations of the country generated the economic activity of seven billion dollars in 2016.

WSWA’s executive vice president of external affairs, Dawson Hobbs, has compared the budding cannabis industry to the struggling alcohol economy of the 1930s. He thinks that cannabis right now is facing the same challenges faced by the alcohol industry in the era of prohibition.

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