I’m not saying that I dislike that weed has been legalized in more and more states (imo all drugs should be legalized but that’s not the point of this post)- I *am* saying that every time I pass a dispensary that looks like an apple store and I see white people talking freely about making special cookies and smoking in their spare time, all I can think about are the thousands and thousands of black people who experienced huge amounts of state-sponsered violence for even the suspicion of having weed on them and those who are STILL IN PRISON for possession charges.
And it. Just kinda makes me grit my teeth, you know? My father was illegally searched and brutalized in front of me when I was a little kid because the cop “thought he smelled weed” (he didn’t, my dad doesn’t touch the stuff) and in the mean time Becky in accounting takes a “special gummy” every night that she gets from a store next to the Starbucks.
Also you’ve got cops railing against laws that prohibit using “smell of weed (a legal drug in the jurisdiction)” as justification for searches