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Darkstar_k t1_jamjgf9 wrote

New Jersey has given former marijuana possessors first crack at this blossoming industry by law - very egalitarian and very cool.

I will continue voting blue in NJ.

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AnderuJohnsuton t1_janqdil wrote

That's always my problem going into a dispensary. I'll see videos playing of old white couples talking about how it helps their pain or anxiety, fun little graphics about strains or methods of partaking, and all I can think about is how many black people had their lives absolutely ruined by something that's now being advertised to me like I'm watching daytime TV.

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Gullible-Berry-1949 t1_jao26kb wrote

This is absolutely fact and I also think about how THE USA GOVT fed us all INSANE MADE UP BULLSHIT about cannabis like reefer madness and got everyone so fucking brainwashed by fear that they had the legal power to criminalize it alongside the truly wonderful hemp version. The amount of damage done to our own people/country world/ by this single event in history is absolutely incomprehensible. Everyone should and could have been growing there own God given God made plants to use for almost all there medical agricultural industrial needs and everything else inbetween!

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anndrago t1_jaogt0u wrote

Totally. Magic mushrooms got caught up in this too. Psylocybin has such enormous medicinal potential and we lost decades of valuable research time.

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Pattern_Maker t1_jap5qa2 wrote

With the catch that most former cannabis offenders could not afford to open dispensaries, and many just became figure heads to bring good PR to corporate owned dispensaries.

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Ricky_Rollin t1_jaq2run wrote

I’m opening one in May! I’m Latino and also have a previous record and I’m thankful they are doing this.

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DanTheFatMan t1_janby3h wrote

That's honestly kinda bullshit.

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Slag-Bear t1_jand6pu wrote

Why so?

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Hobbs512 t1_janennu wrote

Not sure maybe they think you shouldn't give priority to people who willingly broke the law, regardless of how stupid the law was.

But I say give the job to the people who have the most experience. Though possesion may not be the same as growing your own.

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DanTheFatMan t1_janhshr wrote

I get the laws were unjust to an extent, but you shouldn't be rewarded for having willingly broke the law while other's didn't.

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Ipodtouchlurker t1_janjwui wrote

In my view they are not rewarded for breaking the law, but for unjust incarceration. For breaking the law they have already been punished.

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taybay462 t1_japoqgp wrote

It was an unjust law.

Life's not fair, you're not entitled to dibs on opening marijuana dispensaries lmao. Literally no one mad about this would be affected in any way, people affected are free to compete.

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Somebodycalled911 t1_janr2zs wrote

> for having willingly broke the law while other's didn't~~.~~

get caught because police were way less likely to stop, search and arrest them for simple marijuana possession, since they benefited from white and/or wealthy privilege all their life.

There, I fixed it for you :)

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DanTheFatMan t1_jay3hm9 wrote

Doesn't stop it from being a crime. Hilarious to just blame white privilege whenever someone gives criticism.

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