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 didn’t see any for $40 per oz, but I’m not surprised. There are probably eight stores within 20 miles of me, so the market may be getting saturated.
Smoked pot nightly for years. Whenever I travel I forget about it the first night.
I guess ambition has nothing to do
with running a business. If you’re
not out there trying your best to
make sure your livelihood succeeds,
your probably not going to make it.
Everyone has the same opportunities
as the next guy.
The taxes that come from pot sales are theft by the government. They effect the poor most of all!
I looked up prices in CO pot shops, $80\quarter. Ow!
Spot on.
This woman
Is she having orgasms
I have to ask....she ain’t right
She’s out of her mind for a reason
Negroes once controlled large marijuana biz and did well with it
Belize
Jamaica mon
Coastal Colombia
She’s too young dumb and full of “.....” to know better
Btw
I have a plethora of personal pals who did a buttload more time for non violent freighter level weed smuggling in the 80s than her hood rat predatory goblins ever have
Cry me a river bitch
25-30 years no parole versus her poor little colored boys with crack and guns and body counts
Insanity her constant harping
Dry Town by Miranda Lambert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ScJX4lflzm4
Fixed it.
AOC is the Gift That Keeps On Giving.
What I enjoy is that she has blown the lid off of the thin-veiled anti white America bigotry of the politically correct and the social justice warriors.
It’s something that the Democrat leadership and their useful idiots in the Republican party have worked hard to keep under wraps for years, and here is blabbermouth Ocasio-Cortez making it so obvious that even the willfully blind can’t ignore it.
“Were does she come up with this crap?”
Her chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti encourages it. Like AOC he is a living argument for ending 3rd world immigration.
Being in Oregon where it has been a legal business for many years, the way it works is that there is a cadre of seasoned illegal growers who try to move to the legal business. But, the old illegal system they knew provided both price support and competition suppression through the legal system.
So, the successful new entrants are eating their lunch. Forgotten in all this is are the wannabes from the days of prohibition who think the price will remain high and anyone can grow dollars in their back yard. They are losing money and quitting.
The business is color blind -- a true meritocracy. When AOC's people get left out it is because of their abilities, not their race.
I thought AOC ethnicity was PR?
Sounds like whites are under represented since black make up about 13% of the population
Another day another stupid thing out of her mouth - go AOC go
How very progressive.
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