• Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    It’s still wild seeing billboards for weed, even though there’s people still in jail for selling it. :/

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        14 hours ago

        Back as late as ‘15, cannabis was illegal in large portions of the US, if not all of it. People, predominantly Black people, would be given heavy multi-decade sentences for distribution of illegal drugs. Since then, cannabis has become legalized in certain states, and yet those people are not free.

        When the weed shop looks like an Apple Store, but the people previously vending weed are in prison still, that’s a problem.

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          8 hours ago

          Also many cannabis capitalists are…the cops and judges who recently put black homegrowers behind bars.

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          11 hours ago

          Federal vs state? Really shit that our country has like 85% non-violent prisoners, almost all are drug users.

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          15 hours ago

          Yes, but selling drugs is not cool, even when there are legal institutions that are allowed to do it. You can also get amphetamines and opioids as real medication.