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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Selective breeding, travel to foreign lands for genetics, horticultural excellence, hybridization etc. Not to mention distribution, often at great personal cost.
Sleeping outside from late August through mid-October, no matter the weather.
And they're supposed to give it all away after 50 years of building it.
It’s just a microcosm of what they want with the entirety of Western Civilization.
She’s the gift that keeps on giving.
AOC is a nasty little bigot.
And white women botanists.
AOC is fabulous. I can’t wait to see all the damage she does to the Democrats during her first term! Keep talkin’, Lady, yer doin’ great!
Some major contributions. But not the dominant force.
It’s OK to be racist if you are a “person of color”.
How utterly retarded these people are.
So what does she want to see? Does she prefer minority “businessmen” hawking drugs on street corners instead???
Well, maybe non-whites aren’t getting all the emails claiming that you too can make millions in the pot business.
Any reward for white people and their efforts is wrong. Don’t let it happen.
It’s sickening to see TV commercials featuring John Boehner (worthless failed Speaker of the House) hawking the “Cannabis Summit” to potential investors.
There is no greater capitalist organization than a government. They can, and do, limit competition and raise prices (taxes) at will with out regard to whether their customer base can pay or not.
Example - potential Cali pot growers are all complaining about the State’s pot tax and licence practices to open a grow and distribute business. The State charges 40pct tax on pot sales.
The result? Free market capitalism. The black market is under pricing and better distributing black market pot vs legalised pot. The State is not seeing the legal pot sales and tax revenues they anticipated.
The idiot white libs will still vote and campaign for her
If a person is inclined to buy this stuff, go back to your local dealer. You will save money.
Outlaw possession of money for white people.
Outlaw possession of money for white people.
Yeah! Only her homies should profit!
Were does she come up with this crap? It’s like a dam broke and all the communist stuff comes flooding out of her mouth.
She’s been in Congress a couple of months - already cost NY appx 27 billion plus in future taxes, turned away at least 25k of high paying jobs, wants to shut down our commerce while totally destroying the USA by spending trillions to do so. She is beyond stupid and yet she shows no embarrassment at all about her complete misunderstanding of reality. This is really unbelievable!
That’s because we’re smarter than you and yours, dear.
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