Kansas City Substacker Considers Consequences Of Legal Weed

From all around Brookside good guy . . . It's not to light to consider the legal weed aftermath and his perspective is worth consideration . . . Check-it: 

"One day it is contraband. The next day it is a business plan.

"But I can’t help but think about the people who got hurt along the way.

"How many teenagers spent birthdays in cells and received a record that cut them out of a future? How many small mistakes turned into permanent barriers? And if we are being honest, how often did those barriers land harder on some people than others? As always, race and class made a huge difference.

"And now we talk about how to optimize the product in a nice conference room at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center. And you can have a loyalty card at places called the Dank Bank or the Pottery.

"That shift mostly makes sense to me, and I’m glad that fewer people are winding up with criminal records . . . But the reality strikes me as ambiguous - I know true stories of young people who have had psychotic episodes triggered by THC, and studies make it seem that it is a legitimate concern. Nobody is supposed to sell to kids, of course, but we all know how well that keeps it out of their hands . . ."

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