Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino has penned an op-ed in The Independent calling on the Biden Administration to legalise the use of cannabis.Cosentino’s article draws on her experience as a white woman using cannabis and publicly discussing it without consequences.
At one point she mentions how she used Twitter to ask fans to bring her weed while she was touring.Though Cosentino had a medical marijuana license, she questions whether the same lack of ramifications would be applied if a Black person were to do the same thing.“It never even dawned on me that cannabis was illegal in many of the places I was touring, so I could have potentially gotten in trouble, or even arrested, for trying to use Twitter or any public forum as a way to get.
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