2020 News Archives
“They’ll Come Back with Their Cousins and Guns”: Racism in America’s Cannabis History and Why it Matters Today
Duck is back to talk about the elephant in the room. As he astutely points out in this much-needed piece, the roots of racism run deep in cannabis history, as they do in the history of soy, or corn, or other agricultural commodities. TOne big difference with weed, though, is that soy and corn busts didn’t upend communities of color for decades. The other big difference with weed is that WE have an opportunity to make right was has gone so wrong for so long.
