the many ways our drug policy debates rapidly changed once drug addiction became perceived as a white problem and wealthy white investors became interested in profiting from the emerging legal cannabis industry. Many of the reversals have been quite dramatic. For example, former Republican speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner stated in 2011 that he was “unalterably opposed to decriminalizing marijuana” but by the end of 2018, he had joined the board of directors of a cannabis company.
