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How We Can Reap Reparations From Marijuana Reform
In September, a coalition of 60 organizations that collectively make up the Movement for Black Lives issued a series of six platform demands to promote black power, freedom and justice. Included among these demands is an end to the criminalization, incarceration and killing of black people in the name of the various named and unnamed…
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Watch: Asha Bandele and Carl Hart Talk Marijuana Legalization, Drug Stigma and Racial Discrimination [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Calif.’s Recreational-Weed Bill Could Be a Game Changer
Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series that looks at the growing legal marijuana industry and its effect on the black community. Sue Taylor, 69, is a force of nature. The retired Catholic-school principal and grandmother of three is also one of the first African-American senior citizen owners of a cannabis dispensary. She’s based…
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Are Blacks Missing Out on the Medical Benefits of Weed?
Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series that looks at the growing legal marijuana industry and its effect on the black community. If you search “babies cured with cannabis” on YouTube, you come up with a plethora of emotional videos. There’s California’s Dr. William Courtney from 2013, using X-rays to show what…

