Jay Z - The war on drugs exploded the U.S. prison population, disproportionately locking away black[s] and Latinos. Our prison population grew more than 900 percent. When the war on drugs began in 1971, our prison population was 200,000. Today, it is over 2 million.
Venture capitalists migrate to [states where marijuana has been legalized] to open multibillion dollar operations, but former felons can't open a dispensary. Lots of times, those felonies were drug charges caught by poor people who sold drugs for a living but are now prohibited from participating in one of the fastest-growing economies.
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