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Natalie Papillion of the Last Prisoner Project
It s no secret that America s war on drugs quickly morphed into a race war, with enforcement efforts disproportionally targeting communities of color, wrecking lives and gutting communities in the name of righteous reform for nearly a century.
The Human Toll: How the War on Cannabis Targeted Black America, a three-part series of sobering mini-docs from Vanity Fair and electronic vaporizer maker PAX Labs, tackles that charged topic head-on.
The first episode, running about eight minutes, dropped last week. It posits that white America s obsession with rooting out weed began, in large part, as a reaction to burgeoning Black identity during the Jazz Age and beyond.
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By now you’ve probably heard of Corvain Cooper, and if you haven’t, you surely will.
Corvain Cooper was born and raised on the Eastside of South Central, Los Angeles. He and his sister were raised by their grandmother who was able to keep them in magnet schools, but that didn’t make times in the hood any easier.
Facing the realities of impoverished living, Corvain turned to hustling in adulthood to make ends meet. After participating in a few non-violent crimes (petty theft, marijuana possession, and possession of cough syrup with codeine) that would ultimately land him in jail for the first time, he ventured into cannabis entrepreneurship in 2004.
cannabidiol, or
CBD, skyrockets prompting corporations to buy stakes in cannabis companies thousands remain imprisoned for weed-related offenses. Most are people of color, while the investors and manufacturers tend to be white.
That irony is not lost on Cure Crate, a Los Angeles-based CBD-product subscription service, which operates on a “dual platform of wellness advocacy and social justice.” It exposes minorities to business opportunities in the industry and provides assistance to marijuana offenders and ex-offenders.
The company was launched in early 2020 by brand strategist and former William Morris talent agent Sean Wynn and EY health consultant Alexandra Mulconnery.
“We started out to create something that would provide quality CBD products and provide them in a diverse experience. We come at it from the perspectives of a black male and a woman, both underrepresented in the fast-growing field of cannabis,” said Wynn.