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Ocasio-Cortez Slams The 'Racial Injustice' Of The Cannabis Business As White Men Profit
Huffpost iva Yahoo ^ | February 16th, 2019 | Mary Papenfuss

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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To: rhombus10

Race, Class & Gender.
That’s been their ‘platform’ for the past 30yrs, and will be for the foreseeable future.


41 posted on 02/16/2019 11:21:32 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: llevrok
"The State is not seeing the legal pot sales and tax revenues they anticipated."

I read an article some months ago that there are people in Oregon who invested heavily in growing operations only to face bankruptcy because they overestimated the market price of pot.

A bale of hay in my neck of the woods might weigh fifty pounds and cost ten bucks. That's twenty cents a pound. Even if it cost ten times as much to grow pot, that would still be just two dollars per pound. It's not a business I would get into.

42 posted on 02/16/2019 11:21:40 AM PST by William Tell
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To: dainbramaged

https://www.puffpuffpost.com/marijuana-prices-fall-washington-state/

Amazing.


43 posted on 02/16/2019 11:24:01 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
The crazy is strong in this one. She's had a very busy week already.


First, she chased Amazon out of New York - along with their 25,000+ new jobs and two
technical schools they were going to build.

Then...


44 posted on 02/16/2019 11:24:10 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Mariner

I’m glad there’s no weed or other drugs coming from those white men running the south of the border cartels! You know, she’s like a yapping puppy who pees on the carpet. One of these days Grandma Nancy is gonna take a rolled up newspaper to her. Real good, too. You wait and see.


45 posted on 02/16/2019 11:26:26 AM PST by BadLands59
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To: Mariner
No minorities in the Cartels? News to me. Because that's where the real drug money goes.

AOC has a plan for the domestic folks, though - state ownership of the means of production. It's always worked in the past and has made Zimbabwe the agricultural powerhouse it now is.

46 posted on 02/16/2019 11:26:43 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Mariner

This is the logical extension of Obama’s ‘you didn’t build that’ rhetoric.

Socialists are parasites and should be treated accordingly.


47 posted on 02/16/2019 11:29:14 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Mariner

“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.”

When you consider Washington has an 81% white demographic and Colorado has an 87% white demographic, seems to me there are not enough white folks involved in the weed trade. Sure sounds discriminatory to me


48 posted on 02/16/2019 11:29:14 AM PST by chuckee
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To: FreeReign

“AOC is a nasty little bigot.”

This!


49 posted on 02/16/2019 11:30:28 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Mariner
Legalization is insane. Decriminalization was the way to go. We’re Americans, we can handle it.

(My incredibly skilled, responsible and tattoo-less dental hygienist was trimming in Northern California at age six, lol. I should ask if she used safety scissors.)

50 posted on 02/16/2019 11:31:17 AM PST by coaster123 (Bring back the curtsy. - If one is alive one is privileged.)
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To: Mariner
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.

Ironic.

51 posted on 02/16/2019 11:31:18 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: Mariner

“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.”

_____

The black population in CO and WA are 4.3% and 3.7% respectively. Whites are apparently underrepresented.


52 posted on 02/16/2019 11:33:31 AM PST by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: Mariner

If she doesn’t want Amazon and she doesn’t want cannabis ... then what the hell kind of business enterprises DOES she want to see thriving in her district?


53 posted on 02/16/2019 11:36:07 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: Mariner

The formula for “privilege” is the same for everyone. Finish school, learn a skill or trade, don’t do drugs, and don’t have children out of wedlock. It’s not a guarantee, but has been true for generations. Race hustlers like AOC are pathetic.


54 posted on 02/16/2019 11:38:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: carriage_hill

Not just the past 30 years...before that Dems opposed women voting and before that they enforced Jim Crow with the KKK and before that they went to war to defend slavery and before that they force-marched native tribes off their lands.


55 posted on 02/16/2019 11:38:44 AM PST by rhombus10
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To: Aria
“Were does she come up with this crap? It’s like a dam broke and all the communist stuff comes flooding out of her mouth.”

I've heard stuff like this from some identifying as Puerto Rican before, and from the Hispanic activists crowd.

56 posted on 02/16/2019 11:40:41 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Mariner

It’s crazy How many different kinds of herb there are
Visit any shop in California and you’ll just be amazed
I’m glad I decided just to switch the edibles years ago they’re way better
And boy! Do they know what they’re doing


57 posted on 02/16/2019 11:40:52 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Aria

That may be technically correct but in reality its a Yuge stretch.


58 posted on 02/16/2019 11:42:46 AM PST by Delta 21
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To: Mariner

Well white men and the Mexican cartels


59 posted on 02/16/2019 11:42:52 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“The formula for “privilege” is the same for everyone. Finish school, learn a skill or trade, don’t do drugs, and don’t have children out of wedlock. It’s not a guarantee, but has been true for generations. “

That’s racist.


60 posted on 02/16/2019 11:43:13 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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