{"id":2263,"date":"2019-07-11T19:11:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T23:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2020-05-18T17:03:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T17:03:35","slug":"cbd-part-3-re-enslavement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/cbd-part-3-re-enslavement\/","title":{"rendered":"CBD Part 3: Re-Enslavement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Read pt 1<\/a> and pt 2<\/a> here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Part 3: Re-Enslavement (3 of 4 parts)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

These racist practices continued for decades until the War on Drugs. Former President Nixon\u2019s anti-drug campaigns once again targeted people of color, rounding them up in jails where they live plantation-esque lifestyles, doing hard labor for little pay, benefiting corporations.<\/p>\n

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From 1970s until 2005, the United States prison population went from 300,000 inmates to over 2 million<\/a>. That has resulted in 1 of every 9 black children<\/a> having a parent in prison, 92% of whom are fathers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Even as recently as 2010, the ACLU<\/a> reported that black cannabis users were between 4 to 9 times more likely to be arrested for nonviolent cannabis use than their white counterparts. Latin American immigrants face the prospect of deportation for minimum marijuana possession<\/a>. Although all of these groups use marijuana at extremely similar rates, the evidence shows that people of color are penalized more often\/more heavily for using the drug.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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In my own life, I have seen my uncles, cousins and other family members imprisoned for simply self-medicating their depression, anxiety, and PTSD with cannabis.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Such racist policing of cannabis leads to even more trauma, depression, and creates a cycle of poverty that traps people. This destabilizes families and communities. The same thing cannot be said in white communities with white families and dealers.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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So while CBD is being touted as the coolest shit since sliced bread, it\u2019s important to keep this racial history in mind. These current trends areprofiting off past and current high incarceration rates of black and brown people.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The industry is making millions upon millions of dollars growing trendy \u2018hemp\u2019 for all things CBD infused, people of color have been locked away for doing the same, costing them decades of missed time with their families and communities \u2014 sometimes even the rest of their life.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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*CBD full series: Part 1<\/a>, Part 2<\/a>, and Part 4<\/a>.*<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Part 3 of a 4 part series exploring the history of marijuana, the prison industrial complex, and the new industry surrounding it all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-wellness","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4569,"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions\/4569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}