White privilege is so awesome !!
The Booming Marijuana Industry Is Still Too WhiteLegal cannabis is now growing faster than any other industry in the U.S.The enterprise deemed the "next great American
industry" by the ArcView Group, a
California-based investment and research firm, has grown from $1.5 billion in
2013 to $2.7 billion in 2014, the Huffington Post reported. This emerging market, however, seems to be
benefitting all but the people who have been most impacted by draconian anti-drug laws in the United States.
Marijuana legalization efforts reveal the ways
entrenched ideas about race and class impact the public's
perception of users and sellers, and the state and federal policies established to
criminalize them. Take, for example, the ways "drug dealing" is often talked about in public — especially when the dealer is imagined as black or Latino — but cannabis
pushing has now been recast