Even though personal use of cannabis is legal in Canada there is still significant stigma around it as a ‘gateway’ drug to other illegal substances. The media image of the dealer has a Black face, yet the commercialization and profit does not. Black youth who legally use cannabis are more subject to that stigma of being lazy, unfocussed…

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I think Canadians are always comparing themselves to Americans, and gauge what they see a overt racism as ‘much worse down there’. When the media reports racism against Black people the framing is that it is an incident and not part of a larger systemic issue.