The popular ride sharing app, Uber, is adding cannabis sales to its list of services.
Since Canada legalized marijuana, several businesses have popped up to take advantage of money-making opportunities in cannabis sales. And the United States could be next.
Cannabis delivery services and dispensaries are already a multi-billion dollar industry in the U.S., even though cannabis isn’t legal country-wide.
Legalization is the right move – but there’s ongoing problem with cannabis in both our economic and justice systems.
More than half of all drug-related arrests are cannabis-related – and Black people are FOUR TIMES more likely than whites to be busted for possession.
Now that it’s becoming legal, corporations are making major profits on what was once considered a serious offense. But we’ve been almost entirely left out.
Some cities, like Los Angeles, have attempted to support Black people affected by the war on drugs by giving them first access to cannabis sales licenses – but they’ve largely failed.
Other cities haven’t even made an attempt. Wealthy white entrepreneurs are still making most of the money from legal weed.
Uber joins the many other companies that stand to make huge profits from a former crime that resulted in mass incarceration of countless Black people.
This is just another example of how America values a dollar over the life, freedom and well-being of our community.