Posted on 08/14/2023 1:59:22 AM PDT by Libloather
Minnesota is reportedly set to pay out “reparations” to communities that have been disproportionately affected by marijuana laws.
The “reparations,” as some are calling it, will be paid out as per a “CanRenew” grant program stuck into a new marijuana law that made the drug illegal to use, possess, and grow in the state starting as of August 1st.
“Starting in fiscal year 2026, the program will award $15 million a year to eligible organizations in communities that have high concentrations of people who were convicted for a marijuana offense or had family members who were convicted,” the Star Tribune reported Wednesday.
“Communities with large veteran populations, high poverty rates or that have been determined to have ‘experienced a disproportionately large amount of cannabis enforcement’ will also be eligible for the funding, according to the law,” the Minneapolis-based paper noted.
Even state Sen. Lindsey Port, the Democrat sponsor of the bill, has described it as “a form of reparation.”
“Direct harm has been done to communities by prohibition and by the state, and it is our responsibility to undo that harm. This is really our first major investment in doing that, and it should have the same kind of lasting effects that, unfortunately, the war on drugs has had on communities of color,” she told the Tribune.
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This is the kind of crap politicians pull when everybody is doing drugs. Especially weed. I wonder if they’re going to hand out “reparations” of munchies too. Doritos, etc. The people in this wacky country now have the right to be “recreationally” high at all times at the taxpayers’ expense. Minnesota’s Somali tribes are going to require Khat “reparations” also. Somalis haven’t had it this good since Mohamed Farrah “Skyhook” Aidid croaked.
What about reparations to white folks during the Prohibition era? Those hillbillies were rounded up and jailed just for running an alcohol still.
You can get real creative with these “reparations” grants, especially when it is paid by other white peoples money. /spit
This translates to liberal organizations that help democrats get elected.
Nearly everyday I hear something about MN that makes me glad I left when I was in my late 20’s.
Opium for the masses.
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