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New Yorker jailed during ‘war on drugs’ becomes cannabis pioneer

New Yorker jailed during ‘war on drugs’ becomes cannabis pioneer

Roland Conner, 50, opens pop-up marijuana shop in Greenwich Village, only second legal dispensary in the stateAs a New York City teenager, 50-year old Roland Conner found himself harshly punished for only minor offenses related to marijuana.A 1991 arrest resulted in a months-long incarceration, as America’s flawed “war on drugs” had an unfairly disproportionate impact on Black and brown youth.

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