apartment-seeker
apartment-seeker t1_j2fx9bh wrote
Reply to comment by zsreport in Weed Retailers With Criminal Histories Were Promised a Head Start. Instead, They’re Stuck In Line. by Lilyo
What's the basis for saying that's the reason? I am from CA and myself and everyone I know just stopped buying from black market dealers once it was possible to get a med card, and we enjoy going to the ez weed store over there. We don't understand why people do keep using the black market.
apartment-seeker t1_j2ec4qm wrote
Reply to Weed Retailers With Criminal Histories Were Promised a Head Start. Instead, They’re Stuck In Line. by Lilyo
All of which is irrelevant because people have been able to easily buy weed from most bodegas and head shops for at least a year now--which is right and proper, IMO.
Most of us are simply consumers of the stuff, and that state of affairs thus benefits most of us. I'm cool with giving people convicted for simple possession some restitution in the form of a license to sell or something, but I'm also not particularly saddened or concerned to hear that such restitution may be worth less than promised.
FWIW, I went to Empire Cannabis the other day and it was pretty bunk--overpriced goods AND had some "membership fee" BS. Fuck that. Much better to buy from bodega or the delivery service I use, which has been operating smoothly since before weed was legal.
apartment-seeker t1_j6feir0 wrote
Reply to comment by Shmup-em-up in NYC protests of Tyre Nichols death draw more than 100; three arrested as Times Square protester smashes police car windshield by [deleted]
In Tennessee? In Memphis? Since 1959?
I don't really agree with woke politics or the systemic racism narrative, but, to the extent there are structural problems, Democrats can't just fix them. There isn't some piece of legislation they can just repeal to make the law enforcement system less racist.
I think it's safe to say that police officers have, for many decades, felt they can get away with savagery towards Blacks more easily than against Whites (leaving other races out of the equation for the moment). A lot of the cops committing these offenses might very well be willing to apply their brutality in color-blind fashion, and are just less-deterred when the victim is Black.
But Democrats are political dunces, and White liberals tend to be naive and overtaken by some misguided desire to genuflect for any Black or Hispanic claiming there is racism nowadays, and want to make this about race all the time. It's really about the fact that, legally, police in this country get away with waaaaay too much and have gotten away with way too much for far too long. It's totally inconsistent with the free, rule-of-law society Americans are supposed to believe we have.