Selling Drugs In Kansas City Urban Core Okay In The Name Of Diversity?!?

Here's a quick question about new rules given so many enthusiastic purveyors of potentially harmful substances popping up in the KCMO urban core.

Don't get it twisted, TKC is not a teetotaler but the politics of drug pushing can be fascinating in much the same way that rich, white families were allowed to flood rural communities with opioids and only had to pay fines despite so many deadly overdoses and the outright degradation of American culture.

Again, here's the question . . .

Is pushing weed and booze in urban communities okay as along as the branding is "diverse" and speaks to progressive values?!?!

It's unclear if the distinction matters to victims of liver & lung disease but the branding questions are important to the local discourse.

To be fair, here are a few resources that are far more enthusiastic about newbie purveyors of harsh substances that often spark problems with addiction amongst Americans in the urban core and beyond.

Check-it . . .

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You decide . . .