Cross Marte, a formerly incarcerated business owner, is working to open a marijuana dispensary in New York as part of the state’s program to give priority licenses to those with previous pot convictions. NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah reports.
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I should be compensated after being arrested in Queens NY for possession back in 2009. I want back my quarter ounce and $20 for wasting my time.
WEED IS FROM THE EARTH.
So drug dealers with ties to crime… nice.
Now stop recommending this bull crap
I learned from the police that hurting people and things is ok
That's ok pots not a crime
You should sue NYC for religious discrimination. And racial discrimination. You were a minor though, and distributing for use as minor to minors. No, thats not what it was im pretty sure. Probably just discrimination.
The fact it was ever illegalized makes no sense. So childish
Pretty soon Joe Biden will be open the cocaine dispensary
Second chance for marijuana
i trust he convict more than i trust the corporations
this is really positive
in Texas weed is treated like it is in Russia. while our neighbors have legal weed. we need to treat it like alcohol or better asap.
For the anti-pot crowd out there, remember one thing.
The movie "Reefer Madness" (1936) was propaganda, not a documentary.
And taxes permits and leasing all is a part of it. But you can always claim a stoop or corner.
It is not the first of its kind this type of initiative exists in Oakland California it's called cannabis equity/and it's really quite unfair that pot dealers are users or getting these privileges when you have other people victims of the system with greater injustices than marijuana is now legal-for example the wrongfully convicted where they did nothing illegal then or now-most of the wrong so we can make it are not giving a penny and they've done real time!
Former US president Donald Trump is being presented in outdated appearances and quoted speech in media presentations as he is no longer permitted outside of the prison that he is serving detention at. His participation in the mid term elections and coverup media presentations can no longer be sustained in a convincing way to the public while permanently confined to a United States prison complex.
Do they specify that the person has only been arrested for weed? What about those who fought for years for legalization but avoided arrest? A lot of coke and heroin dealers got arrested for weed too, do they qualify? It is the people with a history of unbending advocacy and defense of the plant when it was illegal that should get some recognition through inclusion or first dibs. They are trying to be more fair than just letting rich people who never had any connection take it over and profit, but it still seems flawed.
I got cured of Herpes virus after Dr OSABA on YouTube has sent me his herbal medicine
I feel this isn’t inclusive
This is great. A lot of these ppl have been locked up for years over pot, and this will give be then a chance they might not have gotten otherwise to start a real business.
Yeah I saw you today
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“…marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man.”
–Francis Young (DEA’s own Judge 1988)
"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use…”
– Jimmy Carter (U.S.President)
“Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana… We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.”
– Dan Quayle (U.S. Representative & Vice President)
"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."
“The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.”
– William F. Buckley Jr. (American conservative author & commentator)
"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."
– Dr. Carl Sagan (American Cosmologist, Astrobilologist, author & science communicator)
“You bet I did -— and I enjoyed it.” ….when asked if he had ever smoked marijuana.
– Michael Bloomberg (New York City Mayor)
"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."
– Kofi Annan (U.N. Secretary General)
"Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's really violent and aggressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?"
“Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?”
“…It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit … unnatural?”
-Bill Hicks (Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian)
"If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on."
– Terence McKenna (American ethnobotanist, author, advocate for responsible use of natural psychedelic plants)
He was BREAKING THE LAW!!!!!!! This is an absolute disgrace. So because I obeyed the law this f**king criminal is going to get a priority license ahead of non criminals????????? This is absurd. What is going on in America???????????? I can't believe what just watched.
Luke 8:11
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Luke 8:12
Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Isn’t this the guy that was a teenage drug lord
Weed is awesome!
This is news???? Please tell us how this is news?
That’s fantastic!!
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I'm very glad to see this they should put the first thousand license out before any corporations to those that have been convicted of selling a natural product that is actually better than any Pharmaceuticals.
Good luck young man.
BS…. Liberals 🤡