Posted on 02/16/2019 10:51:18 AM PST by Mariner
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) earned praise from drug justice advocates after criticizing a growing marijuana legalization and business model that is paving the way for white male investors to reap major profits after minorities spent decades in prisons for selling pot.
She made her comments during a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing this week on banking services for the burgeoning cannabis industry as more states legalize the sale and use of marijuana.
She suggested the growing industry was compounding the racial wealth gap by allowing wealthy white-dominated companies to gain a quick advantage in the industry. She complained that communities most affected by drug incarcerations are the last in the door when it comes to profiting now from legalized cannabis.
The nonprofit Drug Policy Alliance praised her position. We must legalize marijuana in a way that recognizes and repairs the disastrous, disproportionate harms of the drug war ... on people of color, the organization tweeted after the hearing.
Ocasio-Cortez cited statistics from Colorado and Washington, where marijuana is legal for recreational use, that 73 percent of cannabis business executives are male and 81 percent are white.
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Exactly... Soon after land redistribution will be on the menu.. I mean, after all, we did steal all of the western lands from the Hispanics..
If anyone wants to know the future of America, just look to South Africa...
Braying donkey teeth Cortez is mentally ill, clearly bipolar manic and having LOTS of manic episodes.
Never shuts up, blabbers/jabbers nonsense, very delusional, constantly starts arguments, always has to have the last word, never shuts up, never shuts up, never shuts up.
So Ocassional Cortex is a hater? Im so surprised.
“Either way I’m SICK of hearing from her and SICK of reading about her!”
Not me.
I’m hoping she makes the front page 3 x per week from now til Nov 2020.
But here's the guy who trains her what to say....Saikat Chakrabarti ...her chief of staff. ....'He' has big policy dreams, like the Green New Deal, which would tackle everything from mitigating climate change to transforming the American economy, and criminal justice reform.
“Who’s stopping them?”
Right here - “investors”
Ignorant angry leftists don’t understand that entrepreneurs (if their efforts pan out) are rewarded for taking risks with their time, money, and hard work; in their racial hatred they believe wealthy whites like Gates, Bezos, etc. are rich because they are white.
It is impossible to do business anywhere such ignorant trash controls votes; no accident that tech really thrived in the whitest region of the country.
“Who’s stopping them?”
Right here - “investors”
Ignorant angry leftists don’t understand that entrepreneurs (if their efforts pan out) are rewarded for taking risks with their time, money, and hard work; in their racial hatred they believe wealthy whites like Gates, Bezos, etc. are rich because they are white.
It is impossible to do business anywhere such ignorant trash controls votes; no accident that tech really thrived in the whitest region of the country.
“When AOC’s people get left out it is because of their abilities, not their race.”
Maybe its coincidence, but those people have been left out for centuries - and our government says it is because their race can’t compete in a meritocracy. She knows why they are always left behind, and just wants to spread the money earned by white people to those who are never going to compete.
You must live down the street from me. 40 years ago a employee asked me if I wanted to smell MJ to stick my head in a old Jeep station wagon. My wife is now using a cream derived from the buds for joint pain and I was taken back those 40 years when I smelled it...
Cortez is a racist, sexist, socialist jerk. I think that about sums it up.
So shes practicing taqquia?? The Islamists has a good year. I knew it was coming but I dont like it.
“You must live down the street from me.”
I’m thinking you’re on the lost coast.
I’m in Sacramento.
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