Weed The People

Weed The People

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Throughout his decades of selling weed, Ramon Garcia never thought he’d see the day marijuana became legal in California. But while he now owns a legitimate cannabis distribution business, he’s ambivalent about the legalization of pot. Ramon says it seems like legalization has only made white entrepreneurs rich, while black and Latino weed dealers bore the brunt of the war on drugs. In this episode, Latino USA shadows two Latinx weed entrepreneurs, and we try to figure out whether a new program by the city of Oakland can help make up for decades of racist drug policies.