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Into America

Righting the Wrongs of the War on Drugs

Into America

Trymaine Lee, MS NOW

Ms Now, Covid-19, Versant, Cultural, Social, Culture, Documentary, News, Trymaine Lee, Breonna Taylor, Black Lives Matter, Msnbc, Health, Society, Justice, News Commentary, George Floyd, Policy, History, Politics, Blm, Society & Culture, Government

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Black people were the most harmed by the War on Drugs; will they benefit now that weed is being legalized? We go to New Jersey to find out.

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0:00.0

A cross the street from City Hall in downtown Trenton, New Jersey is a shop and restaurant

0:11.0

that sells all day breakfast, hummus and black bean burgers.

0:15.8

And a whole bunch of weed.

0:17.8

We got 12 different varieties here, actually 16 varieties here today.

0:25.5

Different stuff.

0:26.8

This is called Bruce Banner, it's a sativa, berry mac, a hybrid, wedding crashers, a hybrid.

0:35.3

It's called NJ weed man's joint and it's run by NJ weed man himself, Ed Fortune.

0:41.3

Right here, this is Canta Butter.

0:44.1

And Canta Butter, you can use that to make anything.

0:46.4

So, like you can put this in anything.

0:47.8

You can take barbecue sauce, dump that in there and make it high chicken, if that's what

0:52.6

you want to do.

0:53.6

But in our family, he's just Robbie.

0:56.2

NJ weed man is my older cousin.

0:58.8

I actually have 11 employees here.

1:01.2

They all get paid well.

1:02.8

If they make less than 1500 a week, it's because they didn't come to work.

1:07.4

Any surprise in customers, do you ever come in here and see somebody that surprised you?

1:11.0

No.

1:12.0

I think other people are surprised sometimes, but I've been in this game a long time.

1:16.1

I've had Orthodox Jewish Jews come in here with the locks hanging down and they don't

1:20.1

want to just buy an eighth day, want to buy pounds.

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