How marijuana reform could repair, reclaim and restore communities | Khadijah Tribble

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🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The war on drugs in the United States undid much of the progress of the Civil Rights Movement -- and today, it continues to derail millions within marginalized communities with arrests, convictions and incarcerations for marijuana possession. As more states move to legalize cannabis, social entrepreneur and activist Khadijah Tribble calls for equitable reform that centers on the casualties of the war and its insidious policies and paves a path toward restorative justice.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, and this is TED Talks Daily. Today's talk is about weed. Yep.
0:09.6	Codija Tribble is a marijuana policy advocate, and she's been studying it, sniffing it, and sharing it for years.
0:15.5	In her TEDx Mid-Atlantic talk from 2019, she weaves the story of marijuana with the structural inequities
0:21.8	faced by black and brown people in America. And she offers hope for how changing our
0:26.2	attitudes about weed can be a boost for marginalized communities.
0:32.6	What did you want to be when you grow up? It is a question that I'm sure many of you have heard in your childhood.
0:43.3	But if your upbringing was anything like mine, it is a question that you heard over and over again.
0:50.3	And it wasn't until I became an adult that I began to understand the significance of the asking of the questions by our community leaders and my grandparents.
1:01.5	But it was only recently in the last two years that I get some true understanding of just how much significance and weight there was in the answer back then and even today.
1:15.8	You see, growing up black and female in the South more than 40 years ago, there are some
1:22.1	limitations to the answer to that question. Whether real or perceived, there were limitations all the same. And so what I want
1:32.6	you to understand at this moment, as a young girl growing up, with all that was happening right after the
1:40.2	Civil Rights Movement, all of the advancements of the struggle, things that were meant
1:45.8	to push and advance the African American community, things like the Voting Rights Act, the Fair
1:54.6	Housing Act, an affirmative action, and my generation was supposed to be taking full advantage of all of those opportunities.
2:05.0	So, when they asked the question, what do you want to be when you grow up, it meant something to them.
2:12.9	I remember hearing this question one summer at vacation Bible school.
2:18.2	Vacation Bible school is not to be confused with BTU training school or Sunday go to meeting school.
2:24.6	It is vacation Bible school.
2:27.4	I'm still trying to figure out who thought it was a good idea to put vacation Bible in school altogether.
2:35.4	But the first week of every summer during my childhood, it was spent in vacation Bible school.
2:41.1	And this one particular summer, there was a teacher.
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