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June 25, 2014
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/24318-a-bitter-harvest-california-marijuana-and-the-new-jim-crow
Here's one word for "white privilege" that might piss many of you off...
Marijuana.
"I started to see the culture in Nevada City as kind of a . . . a Never-Neverland. It's this place where there's enough capital because of the marijuana industry for people to do what they want most of the time. To be able to fund their art project, or their traveling lifestyle, or their social justice project, or their community projects . . . a beautiful house, or a homesteading project, or a farm that they want to have. What I saw after I read the book was that it's not a free and clear benefit for these people that are profiting off of this industry. The Prison-Industrial Complex isn't just the stockholders that want to build a private prison. It's not just the guards that are employed by those prisons. It's not just the people in the justice system who make their living off of prosecuting people. The Prison-Industrial Complex that is riding on the drug laws has created this abundant opportunity for people to . . . to grow weed. And I think people either don't know, or don't see, or don't want to know or see that that's the industry they're involved in. They don't want to see that for them to be able to make $200 a pound trimming, someone somewhere is paying a pretty high price. They're paying with their life or their freedoms."
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/24318-a-bitter-harvest-california-marijuana-and-the-new-jim-crow
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