Waiting to Inhale
Waiting to Inhale The roots of a racial reckoning through the lens of cannabis.From the start, the War on Drugs targeted Black, Brown, and Indigenous Americans already disadvantaged by a system…
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Waiting to Inhale
The roots of a racial reckoning through the lens of cannabis.From the start, the War on Drugs targeted Black, Brown, and Indigenous Americans already disadvantaged by a system stacked against them. In Waiting to Inhale, Akwasi Owusu-Bempah and Tahira Rehmatullah issue a powerful call for a racial reckoning and provide a roadmap to redress this deep and abiding injustice.Waiting to Inhale illuminates the stories of those on the front lines of the War on Drugs--the individuals and communities disproportionately harmed, sometimes seemingly beyond repair; the official and social Even now, as White Americans who largely escaped the fire capitalize on the legalization movement and a booming cannabis industry, their less fortunate peers continue to suffer the consequences of the systemic racism in policing and failed drug policy that fueled the original crisis.