IDC4U: Let's talk about Race...

Canada is "radically different" from the U.S. when it comes to issues like slavery and colonization

The terrible things that came out of colonization "somehow didn't happen here

There is no systemic discrimination in Canada

Many Black people who escaped slavery to Canada stayed permanently because conditions were significantly better than in the U.S.

Canada was not founded on systemic discrimination

The system was designed to primarily benefit Black and Indigenous people, as they were disproportionately charged with cannabis offenses

The legal cannabis system was created to produce an advantage for people marked as white, leading to low arrest and conviction rates for them compared to Black and Indigenous people

Despite cannabis becoming legal, there was no real substantive justice for Black and Indigenous people with criminal records for weed possession, with some remaining in prison

The transformation of cannabis into the legal realm led to its representation shifting to predominantly white people

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