Legal Weed: White People Get Rich, Black People Get To Stay In Prison

[KamaAina]

http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2014/07/legal-weed-white-people-get-rich-black-people-get-stay-prison/

“In many ways the imagery doesn’t sit right,” said Alexander. “Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in big—big money, big businesses selling weed—after 40 years of impoverished black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing?”...

During the March 6 conversation, Alexander went on to further point out the fact that black men and boys have been public enemy number one, when it comes to the war on drugs....

“We arrest these kids at young ages, saddle them with criminal records, throw them in cages, and then release them into a parallel social universe in which the very civil and human rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights movement no longer apply to them for the rest of their lives,” Alexander said. “They can be discriminated against [when it comes to] employment, housing, access to education, public benefits. They’re locked into a permanent second-class status for life. And we’ve done this in precisely the communities that were most in need of our support.”

The world of legalized weed is only going to line the pockets and benefit those who have benefited off of putting black faces behind bars. Just think, it’s a win win for Colorado, make money from weed, and make money from the prison system.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Yup. I'm glad it went down to defeat in Ohio.

Where the plan was exactly that, to create a monopoly cartel of pot farms and sales outlets owned basically by a few rich white folks.

[KamaAina]

2. Or did it?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027377291

[Bluenorthwest]

5. That was bad law, and that cartel of rich folks was not all white. It was all rich.

And in the context of this article I think that's worth a mention. I'll also say I consider that entire cartel to have pursued malicious legislation for personal gain.

[librechik]

3. colorado is releasing weed offenders.

They will get around to everybody eventually.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Oregon is actively pursuing a retroactive expungement of records for those who have records for

crimes which are no longer crimes here. All sorts of people are involved in the legal cannabis biz. If the entire country did what Colorado and Oregon and Washington and Alaska have done a large and abusive tool would be taken away from law enforcement while creating lots of local jobs. How dreadful.