Amid An Industry Boom, Incarceration For Weed Still Threatens Black Women

Twenty-nine states, including Arkansas, Florida and West Virginia, have legalized cannabis in some form. But neither the rewards of cannabis nor its tremendous risks are dispersed evenly among its users and distributors. Some have the luxury of imagining the cannabis plant and its surrounding industries romantically, while others must acknowledge it for what it is ― a Schedule 1 drug subject to life-altering scrutiny by law enforcement.

While we’ve given a great deal of focus to the ways this disparity impacts black men, black women are also harmed disproportionately. 

Throughout the country, in red states and blue states, black women have been arrested for marijuana at higher rates than both white men and white women.

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