[Part 1 of 2] This week’s News With Nezua looks back on the history of Marijuana, the racism involved with its prohibition, and how that prohibition still plays out as oppression on people of color. Also highlighted is the hypocrisy of alcohol and tobacco being so accepted while the benefits of Marijuana are ignored or simply coopted under Capitalism’s purview, while the People are left again to suffer. Finally, Nezua underlines the perverse way that the Mexican drug cartels are empowered and thus their violence enabled by our continuing an outdated, ridiculous ban on a substance that so many people use.
