Goodbye counterculture: what will happen when weed goes corporate?
It is big corporations, not small independent producers, who will reap the benefits of cannabis legalization in Canada
The Guardian (UK)
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Under the federal government’s new legal regime, for the first time in Canadian history, minors in possession of more than five grams of dried cannabis can catch criminal charges. Add that, according to the Toronto Star, people of colour are already three times as likely to be booked for cannabis crimes than white people, (despite not using it any more frequently) and, strangely, legalization could have even worse consequences for young black people. It’s evident that the stigma attached to cannabis use, which marketers are so eager to reduce and normalize, is not the same for white people as it is for black communities.
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