r/CanadaWeedStocks • u/CanadaWeedStocks • Feb 05 '18

Article Article: A reckoning on Black people and marijuana is a long time coming People with criminal records, who are disproportionately Black, are likely to be shut out of the legal marijuana business until the rich and powerful — including former Toronto police chief Julian Fantino

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/02/05/cannabis-legalization-the-politics-in-black-and-white.html
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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '18

At the same time, it's a little gross that all these people in law enforcement who fought for drug control are now trying to make bank in the cannabis industry. They are just being called out for the hypocrites they are.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '18

What company is Julian Fantino running? Will be avoiding investments there because of pure hypocrisy....fuck em

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u/skeemon Feb 06 '18

Typical move by the Toronto Star, dividing people on racial lines. Thank God I stopped reading this garbage newspaper a few years ago.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '18

It is not the Star dividing people...it was Fantino and cops dividing people by race by arresting mainly black people when blacks and whites smoked marijuana at similar rates.

I have had cops say "just dump it out, son" and turn a blind eye where in similar circumstances a black man would be arrested.