You have a point about the prison industrial complex but no one in the us Ives in abject poverty and we need to stop romanticizing selling drugs because it's not helping us at allMost people here can't really understand what's she saying because you've never been poor. People living in adject poverty rely on the black market as legitimate economic opportunities remain scarce.
The prison industrial complex is a contemporary variation of the transatlantic slave trade. So even if marijuana is legalized they'll just find another way to mass incarcerate us. White supremacy is an enduring and persistent monster always lurking behind the curtains only intermittently presenting itself on stage in the spotlight. Whenever they've gotten rid of something (i.e.: slavery, Jim Crow laws, war on drugs) they have always mustered the creativity and ingenuity to invent new tools of destruction and oppression with the expressed purpose of maintaining their position of power.
When engaged in a criminal enterprise you must possess the smarts and wits to avoid capture/arrest. No one denies that it's a risky venture. But being poor produces unparalleled persistence and determination. These fearless individuals adopt the 'Get Rich or Die Trying" mindset that spoiled, well-fed, suburban-raised 'never been in a fight' brehs who populated this site will never understand.