Amy Goodman
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Colorado's First Black Woman Pot Entrepreneur on Edibles, Incarceration & the Industry's Whiteness
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8:54Now PlayingWe are broadcasting live from Denver, Colorado, where in 2012 the state voted to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Now 23 states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for either medical or recreational use, and the cannabis industry is one of the fastest growing in the United States. But some have questioned who stands to cash in on the billions being generated by cannabis sales. Michelle Alexander, the bestselling author of "The New Jim CrowMass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," addressed the issue in a conversation with the Drug Policy Alliance, saying, "Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in bigbig money, big businesses selling weedafter 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?" We speak now to Wanda James, CEO of the Denverbased cannabis dispensary Simply Pure. She is the first AfricanAmerican woman in Colorado to own a cannabis dispensary. She was inspired to start a dispensary by the experiences of her brother, who at 17 was locked up on a petty drug chargeand forced to pick cotton in Texas for four years to earn his freedom.
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