Prior drug conviction is one thing, but Oakland has a pretty unbalanced system where you get an advantage by living in a high-drug-arrest area. That means the s

Prior drug conviction is one thing, but Oakland has a pretty unbalanced system where you get an advantage by living in a high-drug-arrest area. That means the smartest people from the high-arrest area who are already advantaged by doing whatever they were doing to not get arrested are given a double advantage of priority access to a cannabis license. The real intention is racial discrimination but they probably can't do that so they found other ways to judge someone's race - income and neighborhood. It should be strictly limited to drug convicts/arrestees of all races, incomes, and suburbs, not just people who fit the same group as them. https://melmagazine.com/the-state-of-drugs-bb51d1b675e0 https://melmagazine.com/the-state-of-drugs-bb51d1b675e0