Giselle Ramirez left work on a recent Tuesday afternoon and went straight to the north side of town. For more than three hours in 97 degree heat, she asked grocery shoppers to help her decriminalize marijuana.
Ramirez is volunteering for Lubbock Compact, a local advocacy group working on the cause. The group picked that grocery store location specifically — they say most marijuana arrests are in north and east Lubbock, where the residents are mostly Black and Hispanic.
“I’m doing this to help my community stay out of jail for marijuana,” Ramirez said. “I don’t believe anyone should go to jail for mota, our city has bigger problems.”
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