(Thread) CANNABIS EQUITY NOW kick-off!
ACTION 1: Tag, tweet, call, email your local weed shop to donate net proceeds from Black Aug to King County Equity Now towards a Black-led equity workgroup: us.commitchange.com/wa/seattle/afr…
ACTION 2: RT & get familiar w/ our full demands below...
EXPUNGE all cannabis-related offenses including felonies, and RELEASE all prisoners.
In WA, approx. 80% of all cannabis-related arrests ended in felonies for Black men between the years 1990 and 2017. That is shameful, foul and unacceptable. @GovInslee, time to move different.
IMPLEMENT cannabis tax-funded reparations for people who were or are incarcerated for cannabis-related crimes, & their children—to promote generational wealth & educational access.
Reparations are just one step towards addressing racist cannabis policing harms. #PayTheFee
REALLOCATE the State General Fund cannabis tax revenue into an equity fund to help BlPOC people and communities enter and thrive in the industry. #PayTheFee #EquityNow
LEGALIZE Home Grows (HG) for personal use. Given the monopoly on licenses & structural barriers to ownership, many BIPOC grow for personal use.
Black folks are policed 4x more than white folks for cannabis crimes, even now. Legalize HG w/ limits to eliminate much of that harm.
REDISTRIBUTE City cannabis tax dollars each year to Black communities. Seattle has the opportunity & responsibility to begin repairing the harms of cannabis policing on its BIPOC communities, and lead the work towards creating a more inclusive legal cannabis industry. #EquityNow
CREATE a 100% BIPOC, nominated or elected committee to design & implement the @CityofSeattle's new Social Equity Retail Licenses. Community must control this process.
Fact-check: What percentage of cannabis shops in Seattle are owned by Black people?
Less than 1%...
ASSIGN any upcoming or outstanding licenses to Black-owned cannabis co-ops.
Tag/tweet/email/call your local weed shop to donate Black Aug net proceeds to KCEN: us.commitchange.com/wa/seattle/afr…
Lux Pot Shop modeled what this can look like by donating its 6/19-6/26 net proceeds.
After Black Aug, we call on local weed shops to donate 1st Fridays net proceeds. #PTF
Sign-on to support all eight of our Cannabis Equity Now demands:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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