>What are we going to do about all of the victims of the Drug War sitting in jail while weed entrepreneurs make bank amid the Green Rush?
This is one of the particularly nasty bits of hypocrisy our society has allowed to flourish over the past decade. We now have a situation where (almost exclusively rich white men) are making millions of dollars selling legal marijuana on an industrial scale, as red state prisons sit full of petty dime bag dealers (overwhelmingly people of color) doing decades of hard time for something that is not even a crime a few hundred miles away.
This is one of the particularly nasty bits of hypocrisy our society has allowed to flourish over the past decade. We now have a situation where (almost exclusively rich white men) are making millions of dollars selling legal marijuana on an industrial scale, as red state prisons sit full of petty dime bag dealers (overwhelmingly people of color) doing decades of hard time for something that is not even a crime a few hundred miles away.