Cannabis Prohibition’s Racist Roots (Episode 7)
Cannabis Prohibition’s Racist Roots – featuring The Equity Organization’s Founder & Executive Director Natalie Papillion (Episode 7). In this extended episode, we tackle an important topic: racism and its relationship to cannabis prohibition. Host Bobby Black welcomes the founder and executive director of The Equity Organization Natalie Papillion to talk about the history of racism and cannabis. From the fear of black jazz musicians and Mexican immigrants in the 1920s and 30s to Nixon’s targeting of black and Jewish activists in the early 1970s; from the mandatory minimum sentences of the 1980s to stop and frisk in the 1990s; from mass incarceration and asset forfeiture to voter disenfranchisement and the inequities of the burgeoning cannabis industry—we lay out all of the racist rhetoric and sobering statistics, and discuss what might be done to remedy the systemic issues we face.
Natalie Papillion is a writer, researcher, and Yale graduate who contributed to the 2014 American Book Award-winning Jim Crow Freedom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940 and author of the upcoming book Reefer Madness: The Roots of Marijuana Prohibition in America. She’s also the Founder and Executive Director of The Equity Organization, a nonprofit organization working to advance fair, effective, and equitable criminal justice and drug policy reforms.
The World of Cannabis Museum Project Presents Cannthropology—the potcast that explores the history of cannabis culture one artifact and interview at a time. Hosted by World of Cannabis executive director and marijuana media icon Bobby Black. In each episode, Bobby chooses a different item(s) from the museum’s collection of around 500 rare antiques, artifacts, and artworks, and welcomes a different guest to help him explore the item’s significance and place in cannabis history.
Check out our syndicated Cannthropology blog at worldofcannabis.museum/cannthropology and via our media partners: Leaf Magazine, Skunk Magazine, Cannasseur Magazine, Greenleaf Magazine & Cannapolitan Magazine. If you would like to carry our content in your cannabis publication or website, or are interested in becoming a sponsor of this podcast, please contact us at cannthropology@gmail.com.
SHOW LINKS
Website: worldofcannabis.museum
Facebook: Cannthropology, WOCMuseum, BobbyBlack420
Instagram: Cannthropology, worldofcannabis.museum, BobbyBlack420
Twitter: Cannthropology, WOCMuseum, @bobbyblack
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Hashtags: #Cannthropology, #worldofcannabismuseum, #worldofcannabis #wocmuseum
GUEST LINKS
Website: equityorganization.org
Facebook: facebook.com/The-Equity-Organization
Instagram: @EquityOrg
Twitter: @EquityOrg
Hashtags: #equityorganization #equityorg
The World of Cannabis Museum will showcase the influence of cannabis in art, music, film, news,
medicine, and politics throughout the past century. From the early days of prohibition and " reefer
madness," to its modern-day mainstream momentum and everything in between: from the legendary
growers and breeders who created and propagated all of the iconic strains, to the smugglers who
distributed them across the globe; from the activists who have fought for legalization, to the celebrities
who have embraced it; from America’s headshops to Amsterdam’s coffee shops; from the
the counterculture of the 1960s, the excesses of the '70s, and the Drug War hysteria of the '80s, to the rise
of medical marijuana in the '90s and the march toward legalization and mainstream acceptance in the
new millennium—all of this and more we plan to explore in this unprecedented exhibition. Coming
soon!
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