REEFER REDRESS: USING THE RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA INDUSTRY AS A VEHICLE FOR REPARATIONS TO VICTIMS OF THE WAR ON DRUGS
For decades, people of color have been disproportionately policed and incarcerated for marijuana-related offenses. Today, as marijuana becomes recreationally legal in more and more states, and as white people have begun profiting from the very thing that many African Americans are still serving time for, more and more civil rights activists have begun to advocate