[W]e all have a responsibility to be conscious leaders, amplifying the right people to support an equitable industry. This plant has a very complex history to it. But the short of it is that it has been used to disenfranchise and harm Black and brown communities. Legalization is starting to sweep our nation, but when you look at the leaders in the space, unfortunately, you still see a lot of white men. It’s our responsibility to honor this plant and to support the people whose backs this industry was built on, to make sure that they have their place in actually benefiting from this plant’s legalization.... ... I want us to be a part of creating a model of an industry that’s equitable, that really shifts the fabric of our society, that is led with compassion and empathy and collaboration. I think that cannabis has such a immense opportunity to be that industry, and it damn well should be given its very complex and, frankly, racist history of making sure that the people who have been harmed the most by its prohibition are the ones that have an opportunity to benefit and create generational wealth from legalization.
That makes some sense. There is a racist history to marijuana! I could see laughing at "honor this plant," but actually, I'm generally inclined to honor plants, whether they insinuate their way psychedelically into my brain or not.
Why, just this morning, I honored a random plant simply for existing in the sunlight (and I wasn't even high):
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Let’s see… is it “stupefying blasts of intoxication” or “intoxicating blasts of stupefaction”?
I forget…
"I want us to be a part of creating a model of an industry that’s equitable, that really shifts the fabric of our society, that is led with compassion and empathy and collaboration."
CMT (Critical Marijuana Theory}, AKA "We want a cut of the action, Whitey."
"What does it mean to talk about making cannabis "equitable"?"
It means government subsidies for politically favored groups.
It means taking money from some people and giving it to others.
Kinda like Social Security.
There is a racist history to marijuana!
Italics and punctuation do not make a statement true. Make the case.
Too many colored young people smoke too much marijuana.
Instead, they should spend much more time and effort on reading and on learning useful knowledge and skills.
That's a big reason why colored people earn less money and accumulate less wealth during their lives.
This is an example of "word salad." All the words have a surface meaning, but not a useful or interpretable meaning. Grab a fashion topic of the day and plug it into a hackneyed racism framework.
This plant a long global history that dates before black and brown debates began. Ancient Egypt? Ancient China? Ancient India? Ancient Rome?
https://www.recovery.org/marijuana/history/
I would think "Equitable" in regards to marijuana would mean each, say, ounce of leaves from any source would have the same intoxicating effect. Rather like knowing your beer is 6% (or whatever) alcohol.
But I guess my mind doesn't always immediately run to racism.
Who knew that getting high was such a moral crusade?
Equity means someone else will be paying.
It's not the same thing as 'equality'.
Pay for your own damned weed - don't pick my pocket so you can get high.
The issue isn't the issue; the issue is the revolution.
First into the breach is just unfair; we must stop the process and place favored groups at the front of the line.
"Make the case."
I'm blogging, not writing history books. Look it up yourself. Or just play What If You Had to Argue. You know the evidence. Scrape it together in your own brain, I need to get out and honor plants.
I'm sorry...look at any field that is a business...doesn't matter what it is, and you will see a lot of white men with MBAs running those businesses.
The reason? They're good at it.
How about 'people of color' get better at being business people and then they can reap the rewards.
Until then, have a gummy and chill...
Btw, Kamala put a lot of black guys in jail in CA for smoking weed so take the disproportionate harm thing up with her.
It is a meaningless phrase deployed to baffle normal people while they pull some bullshit.
There is a rule in the drug dealing business- don't get high on the supply. Miss Grass apparently is failing to follow that rule.
This is a plant the average college student can grow in a dorm room closet. If you simply legalize it, anyone who wants can grow, breed and market their own. Low prices, decentralized production, pure free market capitalism. No new bureaucrats, no new rules, no rent-seeking croneyism.
This is anathema to most of the left.
I'm all in favor of laws stating that only descendants of slaves can legally sell marijuana. Better than hyper-efficient Koreans making the sale and purchase easy and constant.
Italics and punctuation do not make a statement true. Make the case.
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
However, the educational documentaries "Reefer Madness", "Devil's Harvest", "Marihuana, Weed With Roots in Hell" and "Marihuana, Assassin of Youth" featured only white people, thereby demonstrating the anti-white 'racist history to[sic] marijuana' and capitalized on the public's racist fear of drug-crazed white people.
Making cannabis more equitable means letting more black guys be drug dealers.
That's what they mean.
Next the Movement will agitate for an equitable distribution of stupidity.
I read an article recently that there is a huge cannabis farm/factory not that far away from Montecito, where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and many other celebrities live, and supposedly the smell is overpowering and obnoxious. Members of the nearby community are complaining.
So there's some equity, yes?
Do the name Harry Anslinger ring a bell?
Marijuana was perceived as the drug of Negroes and wetbacks, which made it a lot easier to demonize among decent folk.
But the lady entrepreneur ignores the fact that it was the racism of officialdom in a particular time and place that defined reefer in the public mind, not some market-racism, which is much harder to show empirically.
hmmm, Kate Miller, the CEO of Miss Grass (Shouldn't that be: the SheEO?)
says, we still see a lot of white men in leadership roles in the drug biz
Do I *have*to* point out, that Ms Miller is Whiter than White Bread?
Her complaint is:
The White Man! has been Keepin' Y'all DOWN! Now, I'm here, and there's a New Girl in Charge!
Do the name Harry Anslinger ring a bell?
Marijuana was perceived as the drug of Negroes and wetbacks, which made it a lot easier to demonize among decent folk.
But the lady entrepreneur ignores the fact that it was the racism of officialdom in a particular time and place that defined reefer in the public mind, not some market-racism, which is much harder to show empirically.
Don't bogart that product, dude.
This is SJW Mad Libs. Change "cannabis" & a related words & it can apply to any cause du jour.
Want to make it more equitable? Buy Cheeto futures. Cheeto futures…
I’m not going to make it any easier for you. Now you gotta help yourself.
Scrape it together in your own brain, I need to get out and honor plants.
Brilliant. My starting point for today's remaining interactions.
"Equity" is the buzzword right now so everyone is getting on board, whether the motivation is saving the world or making a buck. See "climate change," "green," "anti-racism," etc.
Based on the different cannabinoid receptor sensitivities, it's clear to me that the miracle plant humans are linked to from an evolutionary adaptation contains mostly CBD with just a scant amount of THC. Hi THC is essentially a modern engineered pharmaceutical while the high CBD is a relatively harmless folk remedy.
Correction to my own comment at 9:10 AM
I inadvertently wrote the wrong expression colored people.
I meant to write People of Color.
Please make the mental correction.
Pot Lives Matter!
A somewhat timely post: my wife just dishonored me with her hectoring about a Japanese Maple branch I cut and removed because it was hanging over our fence.
Why, just this morning, I honored a random plant simply for existing in the sunlight (and I wasn't even high)
Yeah, I had a lot to drink at the picnic yesterday, so I stepped into the woods and "honored" a few random plants myself, IYKWIM.
Let's all go out and honor plant! Or, stay home and honor plant.
Rainy afternoon. I'll stay home and honor plant.
"I think that cannabis has such a immense opportunity to be that industry, and it damn well should be given its very complex and, frankly, racist history of making sure that the people who have been harmed the most by its prohibition" FULL STOP
I have been enjoying marijuana since the seventies. I am a white person and here is how we buy weed. We go to someone's house that sells weed, we buy it and leave. Works well.
I worked in downtown Minneapolis for 25 years. I took the bus to work and back. I saw people selling, buying and smoking weed on 7th street in front of City Center countless times. Countless. Every single one of those transactions involved only black folks. Every single one.
I saw people smoking downtown countless times. Countless. And only once did I see a white guy smoking weed and he was with two black guys.
"(T)he people who have been harmed the most by its prohibition" are those with an ill-conceived business model that fails to incorporate risk management and also those who are fool enough to smoke it publicly in broad daylight.
Under Critical Vice Theory, the colored folk are your MJ dealer and the Indians are your card dealers. I guess whitey gets to keep bingo and the Chinese can have mahjong.
The corporate cannabis culture seeks rents in the highly regulated barely legal arena. Prices are still way to high.
The blue bottle moscato is racist. Whites hardly drink it.
'Want to make it more equitable? Buy Cheeto futures. Cheeto futures…'
Or Taco Bell...that works too.
It's her marketing gimmick. Everything is a gimmick and everybody has a gimmick.
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