Washington D.C. legislators fighting for minorities to own Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

Medical marijuana in D.C. has faced a few challenges. One being law makers want to make sure that minorities are given the opportunity to open up medical facilities.

The licensing board has stated in the past, that they don’t base their decisions on race or ethnicity but they are going to pull minority application up faster.

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Cannabis is one of the leading causes of young and old black men to be incarcerated.

This lack of minority representation is especially problematic given that African-Americans were—and still are—disproportionately arrested and incarcerated during the War on Drugs, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

One Study Shows: Blacks are 3.73 times as likely to be arrested for possession.

However, the nation’s capital is the latest jurisdiction to join a growing effort to make sure that minorities, are in a place to profit from legal weed sales, after decades of being disproportionately prosecuted for using and selling it.

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“We have locked up so many black people for marijuana, and I see it as incredibly hypocritical for those folks to return from prison on marijuana charges just to come back to a place that has now legalized and industrialized it, and they can’t play any role,” said White, according to the Washington Post. “Now, it could be a boon to these communities, but minorities have been left out”

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A spokeswoman for D.C.’s Mayor Muriel E. Bowser says she’s still reviewing the legislation, but her administration is taking steps to carry out it weed Laws.

D.C. now has eight weed cultivation centers and five dispensaries. Only one cultivator is black. The ethnic composition of Washington, D.C. is 49 percent black.

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According to a study released by the Urban Institute, although D.C. has undergone an economic boom over the past several years, the city’s poor and largely minority residents are missing out on a great opportunity.

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