EON Co-Founder Shanel Lindsay helped co-author Question 4 to legalize and regulate the sale of cannabis to adults. Check out her comments to Martha Bebinger at WBUR after the ballot question campaign won its election…
Supporters argued that making marijuana legal was long overdue. And Shanel Lindsay, who helped draft the ballot question, says she will no longer have to worry that police might use marijuana as a reason to stop her on the street.
“And unfortunately, when you’re a minority, you’re more likely, four times more likely to be stopped for intent to distribute and I’m not subject to arrest anymore,” she said.