With Dope, There's High Hope

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

As of January 1, it will be legal to sell recreational cannabis in California. But as the legal weed market gains traction, people of color who were targeted by the drug war are being left out of the green rush. This week, we revisit the history of marijuana in the U.S. ― and how its criminalization has everything to do with race.

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0:03.6	That's an understatement.
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0:38.9	Linda Grant has been in the weed game in Oakland for a
0:42.1	long time, like practically her whole life.
0:45.4	At the elementary six grade, I started selling weed at 11
0:48.4	years old.
0:49.4	So like we didn't go to school.
0:51.1	We saw weed.
0:52.1	We stayed on the football field all day selling dollar joint,
0:55.1	selling five dollar bags of weed.
0:57.0	Since Linda's been selling weed for so long,
0:59.0	she's middle age now.
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