For decades minorities have had marijuana in their neighborhoods. There is no shortage of weed in the hood. If one in the hood wants weed, there is weed. There really is a black-market of weed in minority neighborhoods, weed distribution systems that have been in place for decades. That said and done, now the state is proposing that the hood stop buying its weed in the hood and buy it from the state’s chosen few, none of which are us.
The state is seriously contemplating legalization via a legislative act and instead of really legalizing weed, the government is creating a state-sanctioned marijuana industry (a monopoly). This industry is being formed largely by politically connected rich Caucasians who aren’t even part of the marijuana culture. I call them “cannabaggers.”
These two politicians and the cannabaggers are making the new marijuana industry laws to cater to these cannabaggers exclusively. Neither I nor most minorities who were victimized by the current marijuana laws can’t participate or even fill out a application for a job or to get ownership in this proposed industry. The cannabaggers are making obscene requirements and prohibitions to make selling weed legally exclusive to the rich and politically connected. Who can’t put some weed in a jar and sell it? Why must we be millionaires to sell it? I had a dispensary in Los Angeles that I started with $500 and an apartment to grow weed in.