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Cannabis Legalization: Time and Mass Incarceration

cannabis legalization: It is, of course, impossible to know what the United States would look like today if he had lived or what he would think about the political dilemmas of our own time, according to NOW Magazine. Yet there are certain obvious parallels between his time and ours. ByBill Weinberg Published on January 20, 2020 Share Tweet Martin Luther King Jr. might have turned 91 years old this month if he had not been felled by an assassin's bullet on April 4, 1968. The country is again bitterly divided along political lines. His legacy therefore holds lessons for those now fighting for cannabis legalization. And many activists and scholars argue that the racist power structure that King fought has re-congealed this time in the guise of the war on drugs and mass incarceration. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.