An insightful blog post on Colorado’s legalization of marijuana– not enthusiastic about it, as you might think it would have been– pointed out that the goal of the legislation was not to bring a absurdly criminalized activity into the open, but to commodify it for white people.
You see, most white people in Colorado, in recent years, did not go to jail for possession of marijuana. Only blacks and indigenous people would actually be arrested and convicted if caught in possession of marijuana.
It’s as if the government made lipstick illegal, knowing full well that they would only ever check the purses of black women.
So when it was legalized, a clever but insidious little caveat was added to the law: no one with a previous conviction, a felony, for possession of marijuana would be allowed to become a dealer.
We’re so clever.
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