• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Harris is from Oakland. She gets it. There are nice dispensaries everywhere in Oakland. Even in very family-friendly or affluent parts of town.

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      1 month ago

      You do understand she is the one that was jailing black men on possession charges because it made her look good, right?

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        Our policy was that no one with a marijuana conviction for mere possession could do any (jail time) at all,” said Paul Henderson, who led narcotics prosecutions for several years under Harris. Defendants arrested for the lowest-level possession would typically be referred to drug treatment programs instead of being charged, and weightier charges for marijuana sales would routinely be pleaded down to less serious ones, he said.

        https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/11/kamala-harris-prosecuting-marijuana-cases/