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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I want to be careful how I say this.
With decisions to legalize marijuana, come related decisions of setting up businesses to handle such products.
Not everyone knows how to run a business in the first place.
I know nothing about the legal marijuana business, but assume there are things in common with any business, such as managing cash flow, managing inventory, managing employees, setting prices to maximize profit, etc.
If the majority of people willing to get into this business are white and male, is that really discrimination?
If a person is inclined to buy this stuff, go back to your local dealer. You will save money.
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Exactly. The regular users will buy it for half the price from their regular dealers. It is easier for dealers to operate when it is legal because they can hide in plain sight.
Her boyfriend is a white male.
And then she went home and f**ked her white boyfriend.
Now she’s just The Onion version of herself. Completely tedious & predictable.
Her “partner” is a p-whipped red haired soy boy, as white as white can be.
I am sure he constantly virtue-signals by hating his own whiteness.
I didn’t know that.
I wonder if he is also a grower and profiter of marijuanas.
Always the racism with this party.
In six weeks, AOC (the Hyphen) has made enemies on both sides of the aisle.
She should get into the bi-partisan “green” business with former Speaker Boehner.
Who’s stopping them?
How much do folks want to bet that when Mugabe finally croaks, she’s going to be one of the first, who rushes to eulogise a “Giant Amongst African Leaders?”
“Who’s stopping them?”
Brains.
Who goes to prison for pot?
$140oz for Top Shelf? Legalized?
I don’t believe it.
It is currently half the cost.
This bint is a psycho. So to say pot is a white thing at the business end is absurd just as saying the biggest consumer are blacks.
These kinds of stories make me laugh—but not because they’re funny. Because there are no good guys in them. This is the stupid and evil attacking the intelligent and amoral.
Give it time. The drug cartels aren’t going to lose that much market share. Plus, the street dealers can get you coke and H and any other drug you want. Higher margins in those anyway.
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