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There should be payback to the victims of the war on drugs

With marijuana legalization and de-criminalization trends sweeping the nation, speculation has risen about their future ramifications.

But while most people discuss business and revenue possibilities, Michelle Alexander is addressing another topic: reparations. The attorney and author has spent years documenting the racial injustices that fuel America’s War on Drugs, culminating in her 2011 book The New Jim Crow. What she’s seeing now – in places like Colorado, Washington and the District of Columbia – is definite progress, but also a failure to reckon with the devastation criminalization has wrought over the past few decades.

In a March 6 conversation with Asha Bandele of the Drug Policy Alliance, Alexander said the following: “In many ways, the imagery doesn’t sit right. Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in big — big money, big businesses selling weed — after 40 years of impoverished black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing?”

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