The irony about Kamala Harris claiming young black males being jailed for sell pot “were ahead of the curve” and that they should be first in line for selling legal weed just reeks. Personally, I think the legalizing weed in more states is a good thing for one simple reason, more tax revenue for the state. I don’t have a position on the “morals” of doing weed since I’m not a pot smoker. But yet again, with Kamala Harris playing identity politics, it just gets more crazy. How about Hispanic males who were jailed for selling pot? They don’t qualify? Obviously whites don’t to Democrats. No amount of pandering is going to get Kamala Harris the communist Democrat nomination. She’ll be either Bernie Sanders or Groping Joe Biden’s run mate that fails to win in 2020.
| Kamala Harris: Young black men jailed for selling pot should be first in line for selling legal weed |
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When asked about the “gentrification” of the legal marijuana industry, Harris said, “Invariably a lot of the people who historically who were arrested for marijuana sales were young men, young men of color. And so isn’t that the irony of it all? That now this is one of the fastest growing money-making industries in our country and the very young men who were trying to make money doing the same thing, but got criminalized and have now been branded felons for life are excluded from the economic opportunities that are now available because of this new industry.”
She continued, “There have to be policies in place and look at the background and actually do the work of saying some of those young men should be first in line to get the jobs that are available. And that their felony convictions should not be the barrier to them having employment in an industry they were a part of before it was an industry.”
She added, “They were ahead of the curve.”