Cannabas has been a tool used against people of color in this country. When soldiers came back from via nom and they brought, you know, a, a love for canabas back with em, it kind of spread into the colleges and universities. And then the laws became kind of weird, right? Because we can't wy, we can't persecute e, the white college kids are just experimenting. So it was complex. But i think to a certain extent, we've outgrown a lot of that, but some of itas is still, is still hanging aroundno.
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