The history of cannabis and Hispanic/Latino people in the United States is one full of racism, dating back to when the plant was made illegal in the early 1900s.
New York City, the pot-bust capital of the Western world, is notorious for the racial skewing of its marijuana arrests. Over the last 15 years, more than 85 percent of the half-million-plus people charged with misdemeanor possession there have been black or Latino.
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