'It’s great that the cannabis business is booming and fewer people are being locked up. Now pay back the people whose lives were destroyed by prohibition,' TanaGaneva writes.
, the average marijuana dispensary makes $974 in revenue per square foot of space, which is apparently a “higher” profit margin than Whole Foods. Great.
He was at Princeton to speak at a panel with Gov. Brown and New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin. Both Brown and Platkin embrace criminal justice reform, with Brown recentlyfor people convicted of nonviolent cannabis-related offenses. As a result, more than 45,000 people’s records were cleared of those crimes—freeing them from the burden of paying outstanding fines.
In the same way that the government owes compensation to the wrongfully convicted, the injustice of drug enforcement should make victims eligible for cash payment. “Although their convictions do not currently qualify as wrongful convictions in the legal sense, we argue that the same reasons for legally recognizing other wrongful convictions support conceiving of these cases as wrongful convictions,” Flanigan and Freiman wrote.
And according to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee—who represents Evanston and advocates for federal reparations, Evanston is far ahead of other cities.“Sadly, there has been no progress in advancing economic equity in the cannabis industry, and reparations for the War on Drugs have been abandoned altogether,” writes the activist group Action Network in a petition to
“It was funny, I was there when he got out, and he didn’t recognize me! I was like ‘Hey Daddy!’ and he was like, ‘Who are you?’”Her sister, Evita, works 16-hour shifts at a nursing home and sleeps in her car. Michael tells her she should get more sleep, but she’s desperate to own a home—in large part because she’s terrified that her mother or father will end up in a nursing home, where she says she regularly witnesses elder abuse.
Father and daughter bonded. He bought her a car. But in May 2021, Winslow was found dead in a parked car in Shreveport. He’d been shot, the victim of anI also previously42-year-old Crystal Munoz who gave birth, shackled, while serving a 20-year federal sentence for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Munoz’s role in the “conspiracy” was to give a hand-drawn map to former friends who planned to smuggle drugs. They took plea deals and testified against her at trial.
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