Just to let every know, the market is closed on Monday. On June 19, Americans across the country will celebrate the end of chattel slavery in the US and the beginning of our nation’s journey to equity and liberation. President Abraham Lincoln (a Republican) signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, but the official end of slavery in the US wouldn’t come for another two years with the ratification of the 13th Amendment. On June 19, 1865 General Granger arrived at the shores of Texas to proclaim the freedom of Black people enslaved there and this date became known as Juneteenth.

Slavery might now be over, but the fight still wages on. One of the many challenges we face is the explicitly racist prohibition of cannabis, which fuels the mass incarceration of people of color all over the United States and this in turn decimates countless communities.





Source: Marijuana Policy Project (info@mpp.org)