And like democracy, legalization is imperfect and undone—and requires consumers to make deliberate choices, like choosing to buy legal weed from Black and brown people. Whether by design or by neglect, this is difficult to do, which means the project is further away from realization.
This is an unfortunate development. It’s wrong thing, and it also breaks the promise made to voters. Drug-policy reform—and, specifically, legalizing weed—is a critical tool for ending systemic racism.
But somehow, marijuana legalization has managed to perpetuate systemic racism—and, to at least some extent, the cannabis industry actually exacerbates white supremacy.
As journalist Amanda Chicago Lewis first reported, and as Marijuana Business Daily later confirmed, legal cannabis businesses are overwhelmingly white. There is no indication this has changed in any substantive way in the years since.
To read more, click on https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisroberts/2020/06/29/legal-cannabis-is-almost-entirely-white-heres-how-to-buy-weed-from-black-and-brown-people-and-why-it-matters/amp/