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Hey, @thereval. I hear you. Let me share my thoughts on the issue.https://twitter.com/TheRevAl/status/993481594198519808 …
There's no way legalizing marijuana would be a remedy for the legacy of slavery & Jim Crow. But when it comes to repairing the wrongs of a racist drug war, we've got to make sure black and Latino communities are prioritized in the new legalized industry. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/15/legal-marijuana-industry-racism-portland-jesce-horton …
Most Americans now agree: the war on drugs is racist and expensive. If we can admit that, then we can admit that it's on our government to repair the damage done to communities of color across our country.
As I said on the first day of my announcement: if New York isn't intentional about racial equity as we move toward legalization we'll continue to widen the gap between rich and poor and black and white. That isn't justice. https://twitter.com/CynthiaNixon/status/984235400955772928 …
One major way I've been talking about righting our wrongs is by following models created in places like Oakland, which sets aside half of its marijuana licenses for low-income residents who have been convicted of a cannabis crime or who live in a place targeted by the drug war.
I actually agree with Cynthia here on this. The model being set forth by Oakland is brilliant. And if that model isn't in place, big white owned mega-companies will dominate the industry. And as far as the drug war goes, reparations (righting wrongs) must be made. This is a part.
Ending the Drug War will not solve racism, but you can't solve racism without ending the Drug War.
Changing legal consequences for using drugs doesn’t change the power of the drugs or the nature of addiction. Why would you want to make them less enabled by encouraging their use of drugs?
When you can explain to me how The Beatles were less enabled by their use of drugs, we can have a conversation. Until then, you're still on the hook for a war on drugs that disproportionately arrests and incarcerates black and brown men.
And if you do it in a state or national park that is open to the public, to families with children, you're also more likely to get arrested. Guess we won't have a conversation. Suffice it to say that Paul McCartney openly says that he no longer uses pot.
And Sir Paul is 75 years old. Smoked pot for many, many years. Also took drugs. Created some of the best art in our lifetimes, much of it inspired by drugs. You operate from the assumption that all drug use by anybody is always a bad thing. Me, I'd be dead of alcoholism w/o pot.
A Dutch researcher came out with information that marijuana makes people less not more creative. Guarantee that his creativity was despite the pot use, not because of it.
I love how quickly you'll support science when it says something idiotic, like it stifles creativity, but steadfastly reject science when it says something beneficial, like how marijuana access reduces opiate harms.
as soon as you #SuckUp to this #Racebaiting #WhitePeopleHating #CarnivalBarker you lose any shred of credibility you might have had with middle class Americans.
well, you're clearly *not* the sharpest tool in the intellectual shed. embarrassing.
Ya, and your wisdom is about as telling as a fortune cookie.pic.twitter.com/8w4ALvlcIR
there are kids on this site Fred, don’t act like a beta male putting that filthy image up
Im not your babysitter. And who are you to tell me what to do or what to post? #FuckOff
Yes!!! Thank you Mrs. Nixon! We need to let people with criminal records related to drugs be part of the economical benefits that come with legalizing cannabis!!!
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