Mass Incarceration Is Modern Slavery—And It Gets Worse!
Why the #1 Threat to the Prison Industry Is Legalizing Cannabis
The #1 threat to the prison industry is legalizing cannabis.
Here’s why…
When chattel slavery was abolished, convict leasing camps became the new way for farms & businesses to obtain low-cost labor.
This was even worse because it allowed you to lease a “criminal,” aka a human being, and since they weren’t your property, you didn’t care whether they lived or died.
Even as states began to abolish convict leasing, Jim Crow laws remained, reinforcing racial segregation and punishing offenders with fines and—you guessed it—imprisonment.
As Jim Crow laws were struck down during the Civil Rights movement, mass incarceration got yet another makeover, into the prison industrial complex that we know today.
Arrests were soon fueled by the War on Drugs when in 1971 Nixon declared drug abuse to be “public enemy number one.”
This ushered in a new era of mass incarceration and profiting off of owning human beings.
Hence there still being an estimated 40,000 people imprisoned today for cannabis offenses.
In fact, over half of all drug arrests are cannabis-related, which is exactly why it’s not profitable to federally legalize cannabis.
Please understand that when we “abolish” things, all we’ve actually done, is reinvented it so that it can continue to exist in our modern society.
The founding of this nation was predicated on free labor. It still exists in prisons—they are generating major profits off bodies—and it gets worse!
When they legally kidnap you for using a plant and they take you to a prison in the middle of nowhere, and you are now part of the population in that town.
So many small towns have prisons which affects the census, and in turn increases the number of U.S. Representatives they receive in Congress.
This is why small towns have so much power; they are stealing people from large urban cities for using plants, and they're putting them in small America to give them more power.
It’s all connected, and not in a good way.
What can we do about it?? Knowing your history is the first step… 👇
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