Harlem World Magazine: The Effects Of MRTA On The Black Community From Harlem To The Hudson

Black-owned businesses, cultural organizations, and community organizations across the state of New York, led by the Harlem Business Alliance, are racing against the clock to modify major pillars within the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA).

MRTA may be passed any day now by the NYS government.

“Never again should we allow our entrepreneurial industries led and operated by Black people to be taken from us, such as “numbers” invented by Casper Holstein that employed more than 100,000 Black and Brown people across the five boroughs. Marijuana cannot go the same direction,” says Walter Edwards, Chairman, Harlem Business Alliance.

Harlem Business Alliance and Firehouse Harlem along with a growing list of Black New Yorkers, from MOST HARMED communities including Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, East New York, Harlem, Lower East Side, South/Central Bronx, South Jamaica, and other Black communities in Long Island, Westchester and Upstate NY are uniting to push this campaign to modify MRTA now. These communities are still reeling from long-standing systemic racism and all of its byproducts – i.e. red-lining, pipeline to prison, mass incarceration, and more.

Read At: https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/the-effects-of-mrta-on-the-black-community-from-harlem-to-the-hudson/