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Ok. So I haven’t been talking about this, but I need to start. My friend Alex was just sentenced to 4 years in Federal prison on April 1st for old charges related to what is effectively “bootlegging” of cannabis as Schedule 1 substance (no medical benefit + propensity for abuse).
Anyway, I’m trying to explain to my kids why a plant now advertised on buses in San Francisco & with medical recommendations from physicians having no particularly serious abuse pattern beyond alcohol (which is much much worse) is a Schedule 1 drug putting an uncle in prison. 
Something is very wrong. Why are we incarcerating black Americans involved with weed at a different rate than whites? Why are we imprisoning a brilliant physicist/CEO/artist under a nonsensical Schedule 1 determination that ignores the science & open rebellion by states? Anyone?
This has had me off my game for several days. I’ve felt helpless watching this grind towards conclusion. We need to take apart this machinery of ‘justice’. More kids need the non-violent adults who love them back at their dinner tables. Fighting refer madness in 2019 is madness.
I stand with the non violent cannabis offenders. They shouldn’t do it. But let’s cut the crap & also realize our scientific and moral hypocrisy. These aren’t dangerous folks who need to be kept from society at taxpayer expense. This is my good friend.
So that’s me. What say you?
So that’s me. What say you?
