Gretchen & Dr. Beast Argue About Social Equity & a cannabis License Not Being a Gift

Описание: On this week’s episode of Flowers & Tea, Gretchen lays out one of the biggest contradictions in cannabis policy -- the idea that this entire industry should serve as the repair mechanism for the War on Drugs.

And Dr. Beast doesn’t let that narrative slide.

She jumps in and says what so many have been afraid to articulate.

No Black person asked for this industry to be our form of restitution.

No family harmed by the War on Drugs asked for a license, a stack of paperwork, and one of the hardest businesses in America as “repayment.”

This is our government trying to soothe its guilt and while they should feel guilty — nobody asked for a business. Especially not one designed to drown people in debt and regulation.

Instead, the Flowers & Tea table calls for what real justice should look like:
🌿 Use the revenue from this industry to rebuild communities devastated by drug policy
🌿 Support families still living with the generational impact
🌿 Free people still incarcerated
🌿 Stop recruiting those harmed by the war on drugs into involuntary entrepreneurship that pushes them toward bankruptcy

Because right now?

It’s looking a lot like the War on Drugs is harming the same communities twice. Flowers & Tea isn’t just a podcast — it’s where truth, policy, and lived experience sit at the same table.