How Big Weed Became A Rich White Business
How Big Weed Became A Rich White Business
Blacks and Latinos accounted for nearly half of all weed arrests in 2018 in the US. At the same time, the mostly white legal cannabis industry is exploding. Not only are blacks and Latinos more likely to get in trouble for selling and having weed despite equal rates of use, but now that it’s becoming legal, they’re nearly shut out of the industry. Somewhere along the line, legal weed became a rich white industry. So how did that happen?
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How Big Weed Became A Rich White Business
Bruh wtf is a white buisness tbh im mix but mostly black people do buisness i do sell weed tho
south park was not lying
Became a rich white buisness?? Pretty sure ours was alr bigger than whatever y’all’s was
white man angry because they wanna monopolize something that “the minorities” have been using for thousands of years for free/very low cost…
a lot of white privilege have been pointed out in this clip. but i think its more rich white privledge
Ummmm…4 ounces is not a tiny amount of weed, just sayin…like…that’s A LOT!
Damn this shits racist over all why you got to point out color rhetorical those people made there choices at that time and now there left with the standards put in place just be happy you can smoke weed wow this shot is twisted
It’s dumb racist disproportionate system don’t forget Capitalistic. Weed HELPS, alcohol cigarettes they kill you
Hypocritical systemic racism. At the root of it all for real… we’ll be back on top of the game. No worries
Yo this vid is fd up making me look bad
only weed and juice
3:42 The reason he got nine months in jail is because he was a repeat offender. If it was just simple possession with no former charges, I’m sure he would have not gotten jail time however because he is a repeat offender starting with possession and intent to distribute the simple possession was seen as more serious as it’s a repeat offence so of course he will face jail time for a repeat offence.
this is the stupidest shit ive ever seen
C magnifique
Weed shouldn’t be corporatised and I’m white so if you generalise you wont be taken seriously !
You literally exposed that dude 😭
Speaking of things rooted in racism…
How about this video —ALL videos, movies and television.
Hollywood has its roots colored white by all the early days of its inception.
How many African American or Latino actors do you see in those old, vintage silent movies ???
Huh !?
—HUH !!!???
…Yeah. THOUGHT so, racist !
And how come this video isn’t closed-captioned with every single language around the world spoken by beautiful people of color ??
Racism.
It’s everywhere. Every single day. Even in my breakfast cereal…
—The milk’s white, isn’t it !
This is so true I was on the board to legalize it I remember how they worded it and tricked us we were all for it but they had a hidden agenda it was to make us poor and start working at places like Amazon and they wanted our money our success they’re hiding behind the law this is true
This video is the type of content that promotes holier than thou discrimination… The type of commentary that is little less than a juvenile ego trip. Or even worse, an excuse to be blatantly aggressive and manipulative. Either way it is a video that kicks quality journalism to the curb.
How can this kind of disrespectful atitude help in any way? This is a call to justifying the humiliation of others and making them afraid to speak. Discrimination in the opposite direction is not the solution. Unless you look past your own anger and fear, you will not build something good.
Grow from mediocrity, face the challenges that exist with honesty and compassion. The world needs people with energy, but stop wasting it like this.
Crazy how black people have been public enemy # 1 for so long
Who owns the private prisons?
Yep this is America
Non ho mai capito perche non legalizzare una cazzo di pianta naturale che cresce in natura.
Filipino not ilegal im so sad im 16 years old my name vincent paul margraves im propesinal weed man
Rich white? You mean those guys with the small hats, right?
This is very amateur and closing with the lady passionately contradicting your opening facts sums up the perspective pretty well
Wait did u include filipinos as latinos? 1:51 xD
ofc it has to do with race
So u just gonna ignore the Filipinos??? Ight then
American Judicial system makes money when people go to jail… private jails.
This is such bullshit it’s all to make the white man look bad
Bruh acorse its about race bruh we all just wanna watch weed
Simply just do it and stop being sheeple you guys have more power than you could ever imagine 🤦♂️ i like how everyone know how bad the ppl we trusted back then are but fail to realize it’s the same way now and forty years from now all that bullshit they was doing is gonna be public and only then you bots 🤖 will only know half the truth
Theirs more white fragility in this comment section than false consciousness…. Bruh
So many white people in the comments explaining to us how racism dont exist lmfao
Same way big anything becomes a white thing. Saving and hard work. Minorities tend to spend there small wealth on gold chains while other cultures such as Indian Americans and Asian americans and yes whites save there money. And yes it I now legal so previous people selling might feel burned. Mind you this takes place when there is laws on the books in the bay area that have a minority quota on cannabis licenses…. so yea white folks do well because there is money to be made.
Alot of people defending good ol american hipocracy in the comments 👎
1:57 made me cackle, i wonder how high they were
Here is in denver the marijuana industry is predominantly white
5:20 4 ounces is absolutely not a small amount of weed, four ounces is a lot of weed.
bryh
Lovely racist title. And reported.
That lady saying the drug industry was built on black and brown people’s backs at the end was insulting
Democrats reaping bdemocrats lmfai
This is so unfair my state will probably be the last to legalize……. I’m just going to move to another state. NC IS FULL IGNORANT people who need to let other people decide what they want to do
ok but alcohol is worse, change my mind
3:04 do I think people should go to prison for selling or consuming weed, no. However the video states he had been doing it for decades long before it was legal in New Jersey which means he was almost certainly selling or consuming it before it was legal. This means he broke the law, weather that was fair or not, he did break it, thus he went to jail. That’s how the legal system works, he can’t act like a victim or act butt hurt because now people are doing the same thing he was doing and profiting from it. The difference is they didn’t break the law, weather that law is fair or not he broke it they didn’t. It has nothing to do with race
Business requires large investments! Shocker. Weed is a business like any other. It is not a magical equalizer obviously. Feeling pretty damn stupid for watching an 11 minute democrat commercial.
Unequal racial distributions within the industry isn’t a problem. In fact, I wouldn’t care if it was 100% white people or 100% black people. Simply remove the unnecessary restrictions for everyone.
White supremacist in the government let white supremacist in the United States break federal law on the daily. Being white rich not poor White must be really nice until God has had enough.