
The Dig: Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis
Jacobin Radio
Drug Policy Reformers Are Lobbying for Money
The drug war has been a prominent tool for not only policing and inciting state-sponsored violence in black and brown communities. Many are saying that if you really want to address the root cause of the harms from our racialized drug policies, then we have to reinvest in those neighborhoods. In areas where marijuana has been legalized either for medical purposes or non-medical purposes There's a gold rush of marijuana Of marijuana industries because it can be such a profitable Industry. So there's a call for just as a starting point the tax revenue generated by Legalized marijuana to be deliberately reinvested in those neighborhoods to support small businesses That are run by people who are directly impacted by the really racially oppressive drug


