Henderson was not allowed to work in the legal cannabis industry because he had been caught twice with a joint’s worth of pot as a teenager back in Oklahoma, and as a result he has two drug possession felonies on his record.

Something's not adding up here. Being caught with a "joint's worth" of weed is not a felony.

But it can’t be someone who got caught. Which for the most part means it can’t be someone who is black.

Really? "For the most part"? Is she seriously trying to claim that every black man woman and child has been arrested for marijuana possession?

And every state that has legalized medical or recreational marijuana bans people with drug felonies from working at, owning, investing in, or sitting on the board of a cannabis business.

Again, FELONIES. Does this writer not understand what a felony is or is she just hoping people will just get outraged and share without thinking?

— if only the laws weren’t systematically preventing thousands of qualified black people from participating.

Again, FELONIES.

it appears that fewer than three dozen of the 3,200 to 3,600 storefront marijuana dispensaries in the United States are owned by black people — about 1%.

Okay. The NBA is 99% black. What's the point here again?

Legalizing marijuana sounds revolutionary, but with every day that passes, the same class of rich white men anyone with enough money and no felonies on their record that control all other industries are tightening their grip on this one, snatching up licenses and real estate and preparing for a windfall.

...

When he turns on the TV and sees white businessmen from Colorado or Oregon giving tours of warehouses full of weed, he thinks, Why can’t I be like that?

Wait, why can't he? Oh, right:

When he went to prison on the crack charge,