Jay Z: ‘The War on Drugs Is an Epic Fail’

[Jimmy ValenTime]

hat Jay-Z documentary, it's okay but there's one big lie in it, from my interactions with both crack and cocaine, for some reason crack whether it's cut with other chemicals, hit the bloodstream faster, drive the user insane, if your of a certain age you interacted or had to deal with insane violent crackheads, for for some reason cocaine doesn't do that to people

the reason the crack laws were so bad is because the addicts were violent and willing to kill and steal to get a fix

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

IMO the key message of the video is about what's going on right now with the exploding medical weed industry. Specifically Jay-Z made a very astute point about WHO is being allowed to corner that market and who isn't.

Anybody with the market insight, capital and the ability to get a license is breaking their neck to get in on the action. The laws in Colorado do not permit you to get a marijuana distribution license or be a financer of a marijuana business if you have a felony. They just reached a similar decision in Michigan when a convicted drug felon attempted to open up a dispensary.

In other words, the literal 100s of thousands of felons with weed related convictions that have the market insight and in some cases even the access to capital cannot use their knowledge of the product/consumers/market fluctuation/delivery to participate in the fastest growing industry in America. And even if you ain't the face of the company you're not allowed to finance it (read: majority and/or part shareholders, venture capitalists).

To spell it out all the way , the government put a big NO nikkaS sign on the medical weed industry from the jump. Who's been out here getting convicted for possession w/ intent to sell for the last 3 decades? Or more importantly, who wasn't getting convicted?

The government is getting their cake (new tax revenue) and eating it too (they're still gon put nikkas in the Feds for having an ounce or better)

whatever good intentions the vidoe might have get buried cause the messenger

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

i agree, but that's why i don't take alot of these articles seriously. Hov & the rest of these rappers needs to start at home first, we need rappers to start making REAL music again. no more coke, guns & murder raps. we need substance back in this genre again.

we need nuance in rap

a balance

every rappers a cartoon character

rappers went from being reporters to caricutures

we need rappers that can do there own version of the wire instead of doing audio Scarface

 

[BK The Great]

we need nuance in rap

a balance

every rappers a cartoon character

rappers went from being reporters to caricutures

we need rappers that can do there own version of the wire instead of doing audio Scarface

i'm fine with balance in hip hop, i gravitate to the real shyt more though.

 

[Cloud McFly]

Jay having the Tony Stark Character arc in real life

Jay a genius level drug dealer ( war profiteer) he did a lot of fukked up things made a good amount of bread from it .. then jay when his is about to be done turned it around and then glamorized the actions he committed and gets love all over the world for it ( jay homie getting arrest = tony getting kidnap ) (The Iron Man stage)

now as an older man who relationship in crisis (pepper leaving tony) he suddenly grows a conscious and goes no the actions were bad! .. the drugs bad! (the avengers need government oversight)

You are who you are at your worst .. the choices you make when your backs against the wall is the real you.. jay could never dealt and just been an emcee or as an emcee could really hammered the political, racial, and social stuff that motivated his dealing but he may be do a song an album about that at most


to me this is him wanting to have some political connections during a voting and to hide the fact tidal earning came out low ..

Jay never glamorized drug dealing. Ever since RD, he told you everything he did was fukked up, and regrets his actions because of it.

Anyone who actually listened to his music would know that.

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

Jay never glamorized drug dealing. Ever since RD, he told you everything he did was fukked up, and regrets his actions because of it.

Anyone who actually listened to his music would know that.

come on jay after reasonable doubt rarely got in to the dark-side of the game..

 

[ORDER_66]

Jay never glamorized drug dealing.

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

i view drug dealing as an economic issue

there weren't jobs so a new economy sprouted up


i view fixing the drug problems as an economic issue

if your argument is low level offenders should be able to invest in the marijuana industry start from there


i think jay got some good points but being a bit disingenuous about his true motives

 

[010101]

This . . you should be free to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt or victimize somebody else

The only thing the war on drugs does is serve to enable a a black market industry

focus on violent crimes and frauds robberies and all that
acts committed against the will of another should be policed
i should be free to supply the demands of the people to my profit

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[Still FloW]

Very informative but I'd say it was pretty successful in its mission to destroy the black community

basically