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The war on drugs in the United States undid much of the progress of the Civil Rights Movement — and today, it continues to derail millions within marginalized communities with arrests, convictions and incarcerations for marijuana possession. As more states move to legalize cannabis, social entrepreneur and activist Khadijah Tribble calls for equitable reform that centers on the casualties of the war and its insidious policies and paves a path toward restorative justice.
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Transcriber:
“What did you want to be when you grow up”
is a question that I’m sure many of you
have heard in your childhood.
But if your upbringing was
anything like mine,
it is a question that you heard
over and over again.
And it wasn’t until I became an adult
that I began to understand
the significance of the asking
of the questions by our community leaders
and my grandparents.
But it was only recently
in the last two years
that I get some true understanding
of just how much significance
and weight there was
in the answer back then and even today.
You see, growing up Black and female
in the South more than 40 years ago,
there are some limitations
to the answer to that question.
Whether real or perceived,
there were limitations all the same.
And so what I want you
to understand at this moment,
as a young girl growing up,
with all that was happening
right after the civil rights movement,
all of the advancements of the struggle,
things that were meant to push and advance
the African-American community;
things like the Voting Rights Act,
The Fair Housing Act
and affirmative action,
and my generation was supposed
to be taking full advantage
of all of those opportunities.
So, when they ask the question,
“What do you want to be
when you grow up?,”
it meant something to them.
I remember hearing this question
one summer at vacation Bible school.
And if anybody is here from the South,
you understand that vacation Bible school
is not to be confused
with BTU training school
or Sunday-go-to-meeting school.
it is vacation Bible school.
I’m still trying to figure out
who thought it was a good idea
to put a vacation,
Bible and school all together …
(Laughter)
But the first week of every summer,
of every summer during my childhood,
it was spent in vacation Bible school.
And this one particular summer
there was a teacher.
She wasn’t too much older than me
and my middle school friends.
She wanted to make sure
that we understood scripture
and was able to connect it
to this real world question
of what you will be when you grow up.
And so as my gaggle of girls
sat around lunch that day,
trying to figure out
what we were going to say,
thinking back now, it was
a really impressive group of girls
because they wanted to be things
like civil rights attorneys,
educators and doctors.
I didn’t want any of that.
I was going to do something different.
You see, I was going to be …
wait for it …
A thinker.
(Laughter)
Yes.
(Applause)
So when it came time for me
to take the stage
and share with the entire
vacation Bible school,
I introduced myself and I said,
“When I grow up,
I’m going to be a thinker.”
There was some laughter, some giggles,
but it was really the disapproving look
on the teacher’s face that made me recant.
And so I said really quickly,
“When I grow up,
I’m going to be a lawyer,”
and then I exit stage left.
But fast-forward to two years ago
and I get an opportunity
to spend time at an institution
known for creating
and cultivating great thinkers.
Little did I know at the time
that there’s a ritual
at the Kennedy School
where students get an opportunity
to stand on the famous forum stage
and they’re given 15 seconds to say
what they were going to do
at the Kennedy School.
And so, you know what I’m thinking, right?
It’s a full-circle moment.
I’m going to get it right.
So I take the mic, I introduce myself
and I say to my peers,
to deans and to faculty members
that I’m here to tell you
that marijuana matters.
Not a lot of giggles.
Actually, it was actually
a lot of applause.
But in my head, I’m thinking,
“Khadijah, did you just stand
on the premiere policy stage
and tell these folks
you’re going to talk about weed?”
(Laughter)
That’s exactly what I did,
and for the next 12 months,
I immersed myself in all things marijuana,
day in and day out, reading, talking,
sniffing, thinking about marijuana.
So much so, my lovely wife Robyn
banned the topic from the dinner table.
(Laughter)
But here’s what I came
to understand about marijuana.
And if you don’t remember anything else
from my talk, please remember this.
That for all of the gains
that we were trying to make
with the civil rights movement —
fair housing,
expanded opportunities in education,
employment opportunities,
building the wealth
of the African-American community,
the failed policies of the war on drugs
single-handedly undid all of that.
(Applause)
And here’s how we know that.
I want to give you guys five numbers.
Five.
Seven.
46.
23
and one.
And no, it’s not
the Mega Millions jackpot numbers.
See, for more than five decades,
this country has waged a war on drugs,
which has been tantamount to waging
a war on Black and brown communities.
Millions of people have been arrested,
convicted and incarcerated
for marijuana-related possessions.
In the last decade alone, 7 million.
And those 7 million people are facing
what’s known as
46,000 collateral consequences.
Now, some of you may be saying,
“If you do the crime, you do the time.”
And I only have five minutes left,
so I can’t argue that point today.
But I will say to you, at this moment,
when 33 states
and the District of Columbia
have some form of regulated
growing marijuana, selling marijuana,
consuming marijuana and distributing
marijuana on a mass scale,
is it still a crime?
I ask because I’ve met people
all across this country
who are living with those
collateral consequences.
People like Keyvette, a young woman,
very energetic about her future.
When she left high school,
she was ambitious
and she wanted to go off to college.
But before she could realize that
she was stopped
for a routine traffic violation,
I think it was a broken headlight.
And in the course of that stop
the police officers smelled marijuana.
And if you’re in the state of Virginia,
the smell of marijuana is probable
cause for search and seizure.
The car was searched,
there was marijuana that wasn’t used.
She was arrested, booked,
and to this day, she still has
a criminal record related to marijuana.
Because of that record,
she often finds it hard
to qualify for an apartment,
employment opportunities.
She also lost the opportunity
to use financial aid to go to school.
Some of you might not even know
there are about 26 licensures
for entry-level employment opportunities,
that if you have
a marijuana-related conviction,
you may not be able to get that license,
like a barber’s license
or a cosmetology license.
But the thing that I find so offensive
about ??? situation
is that she has two kids.
And there’s evidence to suggest
children born to individuals
who have a marijuana-related offense,
they’re more likely to live in poverty.
And I ask you guys, is that fair?
Is that equitable?
Or take the veteran who proudly
and honorably served for 26 years
in the United States Air Forces.
In that service, he actually
lost the use of his legs,
he’s paralyzed and he uses marijuana
for pain management.
He also uses it to deal
with his anxiety and depression
that you can imagine would come
with losing independence and mobility.
And he uses marijuana knowing full well
that he is at risk of losing
the very health benefits
that he earned as a disabled veteran.
You know, people ask me all the time,
“Khadijah, why marijuana?
Why are you so passionate
about marijuana?”
The reality of it is I feel
like this is just a continuation
of the work I’ve done my entire life.
I’ve worked alongside
marginalized communities,
in service of marginalized communities
in hopes that I would be able
to improve their life in some way.
But if I’m being honest and frank,
it’s also very personal to me,
marijuana is a personal issue for me.
You see, that veteran
happens to be my father,
Retired Master Sergeant Willie B. Tribble,
and I will fight for his right
and the thousands of other veterans
to get the life saving —
and we don’t know that yet by research,
but I suggest that it could
potentially be —
medicine that is quality
and safe for veterans.
And Keyvette?
Keyvette is my daughter in law.
And those two kids, King and Titan,
mean so much to me.
And just like my grandparents asked me,
“What do you want to be
when you grow up?,”
I want to be able
to hear from my grandsons:
anything they want to be.
Thank you for listening.
Peeyush Kumar
July 21, 2021 at 4:51 pm
Why do we sleep? 🤔🤔Is it necessary to sleep every day? What is the minimum quality hours of sleep needed for a young man in his twenty?
Phat Ninja
July 21, 2021 at 4:52 pm
Hmmm.. All this education, yet still referring to CANNABIS as ‘marijuana’..? Did we forget the American government gave it that name, to “sound foreign & be less appealing” to the public? Is that not systemic racism in action…?
Gabriella ballor
July 21, 2021 at 5:31 pm
. Of course the American government was quick to demonize marijuana and associate it with POC to scare yt folk, but the terminology isnt actually racist, the way it was demonized in the media, was.
RantKid
July 21, 2021 at 10:19 pm
s.n.o.w.f.l.a.k.e.
Mohammed Liswi
July 21, 2021 at 4:56 pm
OMG what a speech!
AsianGuy77
July 21, 2021 at 4:58 pm
I honestly don’t mind legal adults using marijuana, it’s just when kids do it too.
Gabriella ballor
July 21, 2021 at 5:27 pm
Its just as much as a problem as teens drinking. The only difference is marijuana doesnt kill. Alcohol does, yet its normalized and dare I say fetishized.
Danny Boahhh
July 21, 2021 at 5:14 pm
Arizona:
Rec. Users can grow up to 12 plants
Illinois:
Rec. Users can’t grow
Arizona:
$40 8th
Illinois:
$60 8th
Arizona:
Standard sales tax (rate depends on county)
Illinois:
Special Marijuana tax (around 30%)
Arizona has been legal for less than half of the time Illinois has had recreational, most Democrat states that have legalized marijuana followed these footsteps in the beginning. The agenda is clear: Penalize marijuana users!
There are only 3/50 states that have not moved towards medical or recreational marijuana. Stop penalizing legal and illegal marijuana users.
Danny Boahhh
July 21, 2021 at 5:15 pm
I’d rather do it right than legalize it and give them my leg for a bag of weed
RantKid
July 21, 2021 at 10:18 pm
@Danny Boahhh it doesn’t cost that much even medically/ once supply increases drastically, prices fall. Economics 101. It’s a friggin plant lmao…easy to grow “right”
baoabab
July 21, 2021 at 5:16 pm
in the long term marijuana is the absolute evil. I don’t see any point in listening to an addict that his drug is useful. This is at least self-deception.
Summer Fields
July 21, 2021 at 5:17 pm
This speaker is trying to justify criminal acts and poor decision making by using racism AGAIN! And to talk about a disabled veteran to try to sway viewers to her side is pathetic. Instead of pointing fingers, maybe THINK about taking your energy and focus on changing policies state and federal. This video is useless
RantKid
July 21, 2021 at 11:23 pm
@Summer Fields Ideas need to be shared before any meaningful action is taken, namely prior to debating on the Senate floor about policy and legislation changes.
Simple stuff. Tried and true and as classic as our forefathers. Calm down spaz.
Summer Fields
July 21, 2021 at 11:39 pm
@RantKid oh boy….please. The ones who resort to name calling have nothing better to say. Your answer states so.
is that quiet and calm enough for you…shhhhh
😆😆😆😆😆😆
RantKid
July 21, 2021 at 11:42 pm
@Summer Fields a huge detailed response and all you can do is focus on the benign sentence at the end. How sad and easily thrown off the rails you are.
Summer Fields
July 22, 2021 at 12:44 am
@RantKid look, you keep attacking character, you are triggered and moving away from the point. Let it go. Move on. I am. 👋
RantKid
July 22, 2021 at 1:12 am
@Summer Fields well now you’re projecting. You’re running away.
Scot Fretwell
July 21, 2021 at 5:29 pm
Bovinescatology just get high ffs.
Ty m
July 21, 2021 at 5:31 pm
So, I live in Canada where Marihuana has been fully legalized since 2018. I used to be very much against it, believing it was a gateway drug etc. I was just ignorant. Now I use it regularly and enjoy it. Hardly drink anymore.
Moncha
July 21, 2021 at 5:36 pm
FreeCannabis
C T
July 21, 2021 at 5:39 pm
Cannabidiol can be produced in lab. No need to smoke pot.
Revilokab
July 21, 2021 at 6:15 pm
I just want to be able to grow 3 plants.
If it is legalized federally do you think they will allow some home cultivation? All I need is 3 plants and I’d be more than happy
Оксана Свидовская
July 21, 2021 at 7:40 pm
Ohhh, such a beautiful speech 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Aliza Jayne
July 21, 2021 at 8:30 pm
Could start by *not* calling it marijuana and call it instead by its proper name, cannabis.
Kathy D
July 21, 2021 at 9:09 pm
Cannabis is safer for mind, body and society than alcohol or any pharmaceutical.
Frico Riko
July 22, 2021 at 1:08 pm
Are you really sure about that?
I’ve been on the same page as you but after getting a family, functioning in stable job, raising kids and maintaining my health long term I know for sure that it all would fall apart if doing cannabis again. People won’t just smoke once a month or so … more like every week if not daily …
Having a drink now and then works well.
LaikaCommunity telegram
July 21, 2021 at 9:29 pm
i’ve smoked 10year from 1 per day to more daily. it will justbdestroy your brain chemestry, slow depression withbsome paranoa, more lazy…..imo it is as dangerous as any drug. am from morocco i know what is marijuana since kid, amn40y
NupeAtl
July 21, 2021 at 10:20 pm
All of this fuss over a house plant… How repulsed and ashamed every American should be. Enjoy your bars and alcohol though. That’s clearly worked out well. My condolences to anyone that has lost a loved one from drinking and driving or a drunk driver.
Satan is certainly alive and well.
🥦🍄
Vi
July 22, 2021 at 1:12 am
You can tell satan is alive because she’s married to a woman. 🧛🏿♂️
Court Ben
July 21, 2021 at 10:43 pm
We need people like Khadijah running this country.
Genuine John
July 21, 2021 at 11:28 pm
theres pros and cons to weed. but the pros can outweigh the cons, and also depends how your mind and body responds to it. i quit weed cause it gave me nothing but anxiety and actually made me stay up all night which is kinda odd. and i have asthma too, so my lungs were getting worse. however, weed has saved peoples lives. soldiers who are fucked up with ptsd have a sense of relief cause of this plant. people who have tons of stress/anxiety/ or whatever feel great smoking it. dont be fooled, smoke is smoke. lungs dont appreciate it. but demonizing weed is outdated asf and makes you look like an idiot. especially the same people who hate on it, but drown out their kidneys daily to drinking.
M00SE
July 23, 2021 at 1:12 am
Beautiful comment man
Marcelo Cruz
July 21, 2021 at 11:38 pm
I dont really think marijuana is harmless as people say… I used to smoke every day and could not get things done… Specially when you are young its a HUGE waste of time. Since I stopped my life became better 1000% in every aspect of it. BUT, I still think people should be free to use it if they want to… Alcohol is 10x worse and dangerous and its legal..
Pandaboi
July 22, 2021 at 12:44 pm
Wasting time isn’t harm.
CieraC1993
July 22, 2021 at 1:47 pm
That’s your experience with marijuana. Others can function just fine or may even use it to treat ADD. Remove yourself from the equation and you’ll find marijuana does more good than harm.
Kristina LeRock
July 22, 2021 at 3:30 pm
There is so many different versions of marijuana out there, you could’ve been using the wrong kind for you and also maybe too much. Its the same as any other drugs (medicine) you have to find the one that works for you and the right dosage. If we had doctors that gave us the right amount and the right version of it then I bet it would definitely work and help people. I’d love to try it ( I have ADHD and I battle every day with getting thigns done) but I live in Ireland where its illegal. I think its time to just legalize it everywhere but in a controlled and handle way.
Steven
July 23, 2021 at 11:35 am
@Kristina LeRock It would 100% help better than any prescribed medicine or drug pushed by the pharma giants
Big Dee
July 21, 2021 at 11:56 pm
How about black fathers raising their own children ??? How do you think would effect the community ???
Solitary Reaper
July 22, 2021 at 1:11 am
nah, they should just vape more
Clint Jabel
July 22, 2021 at 2:27 pm
It depends on the moral obligations of the father. Not all blacks think alike not all white steak alike not all Asians think alike we are our own individual stuck in a chrysalis of a certain color on the demo fried by ourselves by others so our color actually means fucking nothing but it does because scientifically white skin has less melon in it can absorb and synthesize vitamin D so much better than melanin in which stain however melon deficient skin can get skin cancer so there are some differences in color but to categorize people by how their brain operates or the character of their moral based upon their skin color is fucking stupid. However dancer your question yes I believe that all fathers should be in the homes with their kids.But also the morality needs to be in question as well but there is really really bad thinking in every home unless it teaches a good orderly direction and moral standing to search for intelligence and truth and to be the best you you can be and also to be happy. But if a person is happy by killing people that person needs to be killed
Big Dee
July 22, 2021 at 2:29 pm
@Clint Jabel what a clown
BlondeGirlSez This
July 22, 2021 at 2:52 pm
Weak
Clint Jabel
July 24, 2021 at 12:41 am
@Big Dee at least they’re not lies. ;). Karma is a mirror!
Stefan Nikola
July 22, 2021 at 12:06 am
I didn’t laugh. Thinking is good.
thousand miles
July 22, 2021 at 12:45 am
‘Life’ either ya get it or ya just dont get it.
thousand miles
July 22, 2021 at 1:10 am
Lets see. Things we that are somehow more acceptable in the u.s.a. over an natural medicinal herb:::::::: guns? Cigarettes laced with chemicals and filtered with fiber glass? 40-100 hour work weeks? Schools with metal detectors, poison food, forced testing and absurd work load? Prisons with poison food, cruel and unusual punishments? Harmful and hurtful laws out to control women? Cruel and disgusting meat industries? Disgusting and poisonous fast foods? Dangerous work environments? Pills and prescription drugs with @ million dangerous side effects? Dangerous household cleaning and health products? Absurd speed limits that people roll past even faster? Hostile police practices? Waste waste and more waste from disposable products? A whole automotive industry including roadways based on a dying and limited fuel industry? Churches that have obviously become more of profit corporations? Did I mention real dangerous work environments? Chemicals added to water supply? Farm lands being turned into shopping centers, what do we all think we’re gonna eat? Tearing up the good earth for mansions, super yachts and rockets to space to supplement boredom? Public servants, our so-called leaders, forgetting they are in fact public servants? Poisons over crops? Poisons in homes? Leaders disturbing the peace? Businesses building monopolies? Greed greed and more greed? Tax money being used on multibillion dollar structures but then saying there’s none left for food/shelter for the ones who payed the taxes? Leaders starting conflicts with no regards to the people they serve, the public? Military personal treated harmfully, then equiped with dangerous tools and told to ‘keep the peace’? Housing prices rising every day, minimum wage stagnating?
Shloomy Shloms
July 22, 2021 at 1:42 am
so naive
あからあかり
July 22, 2021 at 1:42 am
Every country can be tolerant of drugs until it becomes like Mexico.
Pandaboi
July 22, 2021 at 12:46 pm
Mexico isn’t what it is because of drugs, it’s because of criminal cartels who export drugs to the US. In other words, the only reason cartels are there to tear apart Mexico is because of both the US and Mexico’s war on drugs.
BlondeGirlSez This
July 22, 2021 at 2:50 pm
conservatives love blame. Blame yourself for once and then come back.
あからあかり
July 22, 2021 at 6:32 pm
@Pandaboi So you’re saying that American consumers have fostered the Mexican cartels? Now that marijuana has been legalized, maybe the crackdown on other drugs can be tightened, for the sake of Americans and Mexicans.
InMaTeofDeath
July 22, 2021 at 2:08 am
Previous video is once again locked off from comments. I do have to wonder why Ted wants to encourage discussion on some topics but not others while offering no explanation as to why they pick and choose.
BlondeGirlSez This
July 22, 2021 at 2:51 pm
oh so you think the 100k paid trolls that invade politically charged rooms and videos on liberal media is a “discussion”. You love regulating discussions until you need to scream FRAUD about things you are grifting for
J
July 22, 2021 at 7:32 pm
Leftys only want to hear from other commies
InMaTeofDeath
July 22, 2021 at 8:09 pm
@BlondeGirlSez This So you believe because a small number of people misbehave everyone else who isn’t should have their ability to speak denied? That’s like if you went shopping and got kicked out of a store because people were stealing earlier and they decide to treat you exactly like the people that were stealing. Is that how you believe organizations should function?
stillpaints
July 22, 2021 at 3:06 am
It’s really bad for doing math though.
Ronald Dan Caliva
July 22, 2021 at 3:21 am
The government should produce a marijuana detector machine that could figure out how many dosage of marijuana he’s taken and they’re also putting the level of marijuana should be taken by somebody that tells if a person needs to be arrested.
Pandaboi
July 22, 2021 at 12:49 pm
Or just legalize it. There are far worse drugs that are legal.
Jefe's Garden
July 22, 2021 at 3:22 am
Thank you for your service and sacrifices, MSgt. Tribble! ✌♥
H4 gaming tv
July 22, 2021 at 5:06 am
Ai người VN cho mình hỏi đây là anh anh hay anh mỹ vậy
Lauren P
July 22, 2021 at 7:52 am
Excellence! 🍃💯🖤
James Kulevich
July 22, 2021 at 12:21 pm
This is a way to move in a backwards direction.
Pandaboi
July 22, 2021 at 12:48 pm
No … it really isn’t backwards. Freedom is not backwards, marijuana as medical treatment is not backwards, preventing police abuse is not backwards. Marijuana legalization is not backwards.
Mateo Tinoco
July 23, 2021 at 12:08 am
says the climate change denier. the word backwards should only be coming out of your mouth if youre using it to describe yourself
神农氏
July 22, 2021 at 2:05 pm
Not allowed by law.
Clint Jabel
July 22, 2021 at 2:25 pm
Wondering how legalizing something that people do anyway will help stabilize communities and the sad thing is something that the stabilizes fight and morality into a more lenient control thing, I really don’t believe that smoking dealing selling legal illegal cannabis is going to help improve the cognitive thought within inner-city communities or decrease crime, because how many are actually non-violent drug dealers? How many of them are non-violent? How come there’s a stomach murder every day in innerCity communities. So I really don’t understand how legalizing weed would make the inner-city communities better they would need to legalize murder
BlondeGirlSez This
July 22, 2021 at 2:49 pm
Conservatives want this dead because they lose their grift on building more prisons for blacks, lose the leverage to jail more blacks, and lose the gun sales that would go to prisons, and more cops to jail blacks. And this is not a new insight this is for the past hundred years. I live in Oregon and have lived in Washington and California and it is legal in all western states now and the windfall from just the first year literally transformed neighborhoods and employed thousands and thousands of women who would have gone into strip clubs, growers who were criminals yesterday and business leaders the next.
Frank Wayne
July 22, 2021 at 3:26 pm
Hey the black community entrepreneurs are still experiencing a very visible difference in the challenges while working with marijuana in comparison to white community counterparts. Would that not create the same gap among races in the future even with a new age venture like this.
Tigburt Jones
July 22, 2021 at 5:02 pm
How many entrepreneurs do you know working the weed market finding challenges in their field that is not part of the risk I of taking on a new venture? This is a very narrow field and I suspect anyone in a position to make investments in new businesses is already in the upper echelon of society and success; that your argument could be applied to entrepreneurs of all colors
Ricky Joe Hand
July 24, 2021 at 11:11 pm
@Tigburt Jones doesn’t fit the narrative
Rebecca Catherine
July 22, 2021 at 5:15 pm
Yes, yes and yes💯
Mario Jaikaran
July 23, 2021 at 1:44 am
Einstein once said that smoking helps you to have piece of mind and to give more of a fair judgement.
Ro5ELiTE
July 23, 2021 at 4:49 am
But he wasn’t smoking marijuana, according to history. 😬 I suppose I aught to ask him next time I see him too
Christopher Sundquist
July 26, 2021 at 5:20 am
Not a fair judgment, an inept one.
Trang Bùi
July 23, 2021 at 4:35 am
it’s not about allowing or banning marijuana, it’s about controlling the possible drawbacks of the drug to the community.
lsb betty
July 23, 2021 at 6:54 am
Is there anyone who watch this to get inspired
Steven Zore
July 24, 2021 at 12:47 am
Nation of loser stoners. Exactly what out enemies would want, the corruption of society.
UNKNOWN PERSON
July 24, 2021 at 4:29 am
Well, it was only a matter of time that TED Talks would degrade into pot advocacy.
Casandra Gonzales
July 24, 2021 at 6:44 am
Degrade? How so?
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Darin Hill
July 24, 2021 at 7:04 pm
Thankfully, cannabis was legalized in VA July 1st. It’s not by any means perfect, but it’s a step in the right direction.
I received a non-violent felony conviction for growing and it in ’91. My record will be expunged eventually, but the damage to my employability because of my record cost me more than the time I had to spend incarcerated.
Federal legalization is the only way to go forward. The past is gone.
Ricky Joe Hand
July 24, 2021 at 11:16 pm
Legalize
David A
July 25, 2021 at 3:46 am
👎
Jay_Gutta_Music
July 25, 2021 at 7:48 am
That’s Cannabis to you!
Marijuana is a derogatory term.
Christopher Sundquist
July 26, 2021 at 5:08 am
Further proof of the ineptitude of people. The countries primary problems are because people are to high to think criticaly. That was before the legalization of marijuana. Parents are destroying therir childs minds because of the contradictions they are feeding their kids. I have seen this first hand because my past jobs. The worst part is, is that this is also caused by the narcotics that are being pumped into “adults” by pharmaceuticals that doctors make money off of. To top this nonsense off, to think this is relegated to “Black” and “Brown” communities. FOOLS, if you want to make the country better, stop distinguishing and REMEMBER we are one community. Stop forcing the segregation! Look at the facebook page called “Existence”, and get a real education.
Anastasia P.
July 26, 2021 at 9:29 am
That’s one of the best ted talks ever, props to this woman. Laws literally make no sense, use some nuance at least so that you don’t suppress so many people for literally just trying to exist and succeed in what they won’t. Not all cases of one thing are the same and same goes for Marijuana. There’s no point in putting the use of it in criminal record other than to descriminate. People are allowed to carry guns ffs in US but nah if they carry weed, they’re criminals. Make it make sense.
A3 initials
July 26, 2021 at 2:24 pm
Well said 💯
Antoni Christian
July 26, 2021 at 10:35 pm
all marijuana did for my sister was lead to have her kids taken away from her and having no money…
Leo Xu
July 26, 2021 at 11:12 pm
Weed is not like heroin and is much more controllable. When you smoke, you do not harm others and therefore I don’t think anyone have the right to arrest you. There should be more training program to help those people addict to drug but everyone have the right to do what ever they want to their own body.