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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There’s nothing stopping POCs from getting into the business. All it takes is smarts, hard work, perseverance, gumption...and NO WHINING about others’ successes.
Most people learned those simple rules in grade school. Not her.
I agree with her. Big Tobacco is now Big Marijuana.
Except marijuana is much more harmful that tobacco. And more addictive.
There’s no limit to the amount of “social injustice” a weak-minded socialist can dream up with Satan’s help.
Check out Stefan Molyneux on Twitter.
Her boyfriend is a white male.
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Or white she-male. Have you seen him?
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s relationship with boyfriend Riley Roberts is official.
Roberts has been granted a government “house.gov” email address so he can access Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional calendar, the 29-year-old congresswoman confirmed Friday.”
White man’s privilege for the elite?
She is New York Nasty.
Nasty, nasty, nasty.
New York Nasty.
I like this woman more every time she says something, and NOT because I agree with her.
The volunteer fire department’s building in my little berg caught on fire and burned to the ground the other day.
People acted perturbed when I pointed it out.
As many pointed out, the real problem was the new farmers not knowing what they were doing. They were given white mens' farms and ruined them in short order. Not unlike the greenhouses that the Israelis gave to the Palestinians in Gaza years ago.
It would be very foolish to cross that line carrying and that pot head is no fool.
$454/LB wholesale? I knew the guy supplying his frat in the ‘70s. Aprox $200/2 LB brick.
Pot, alcohol and tobacco are all dangerous enough to be illegal.
Your lungs will be better for it, anyways. No smoke damage!
like Herpes... just keeps coming back!
I guess she thinks pot should be like casino gambling, with a racial entitlement for getting into the business.
Yes, he’s a guy. I saw him on Twitter because someone was complaining about her giving him access to her Google calendar and thought she hired him. She claims he isn’t on government payroll.
stop trying to be careful about anything! thats the reason weve slipped so far!! Not you personally, the human race in general! SAY IT!!!! SAY IT!!!!!! THE EMPOROER IS BUCK FKG NEKID!! ...ok rant over...
I know. Keep talking, idiot.
I went to a dispensary with a friend who was refilling a “script”.
Wow, things have changed since the 70s.
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