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> We now have a situation where (almost exclusively rich white men) are making millions of dollars selling legal marijuana on an industrial scale, as red state
by Eridrus 9y ago
> We now have a situation where (almost exclusively rich white men) are making millions of dollars selling legal marijuana on an industrial scale, as red state prisons sit full of petty dime bag dealers (overwhelmingly people of color) doing decades of hard time for something that is not even a crime a few hundred miles away.
While I am supportive of freeing low level nonviolent offenders and sealing their records, I think the insinuation here that those locked up somehow deserve the profits from the new industry is silly. Running a black market business is very different from running a real business. Look at what's happening in Humboldt county to see that just because the product is the same the business is not.