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You are wrong. One of my best friends is white and can’t afford legal weed so he buys it from unsavory sources.
by ironmagma 5y ago
You are wrong. One of my best friends is white and can’t afford legal weed so he buys it from unsavory sources.
- sneak 5y agoMy point is that the legalization of the weed business was a deliberate choice to shift revenue streams away from black people and toward white people.
- ironmagma 5y agoMost people who supported it said it was to get away from the deliberate imprisonment of black people who didn’t deserve criminal penalties for casual drug use. So I guess the question is, which is the worse conspiracy?
- sneak 5y agoThe USA has a long history of taking any industry in which black people are amassing wealth, power, or status, and stealing or destroying it. You can't maintain an intelligent, hard-working group as an underclass for multiple generations without deliberate action and sabotage each and every time advances are made. It's nothing new, just the latest installment. See also: music (jazz, rock, rap, techno, motown), Tulsa, civil rights, etc. Get too big or powerful, and it'll be outlawed, stolen, or you'll simply be killed outright. This is the pattern in the USA.
- ironmagma 5y agoThis observation still provides no solution to the catch-22 of imprisoning black people vs taking away money from black people. It seems almost like black people are just people, so deciding policies are going to be good for some and bad for others, just like every policy.
- novok 5y agoHow did poor ass asians rise then in a few generations?
- tsol 5y agoMuch of the reason it isn't possible for minorities to get into legal sales is Marijuana is high barriers to entry. Here in Illinois, there are a limited number of licenses awarded to people to open dispensaries and only a fraction are small minority owned businesses