Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and winner of the 2008 National Magazine Award for columns and commentary. His most recent book is Hate Inc: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another. He’s also the author of I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street, about the infamous killing of Eric Garner by New York City police officers, Insane Clown President, The Divide, Griftopia, and The Great Derangement.

Reggie Harris is the co-founder of Hyphae Labs, which is leading the industry in psychedelic mushroom potency testing, and the creator of Oakland Hyphae, which hosted the Psilocybin Cup and The Oakland Psychedelic Conference. He has over 10 years of domestic experience in the US cannabis industry, is a member of the Advisory Board for Decriminalize Nature, and is active and passionate in The Movement for Black Lives.

Chapter Seven:

Embrace Racial Stereotypes

Here’s how you rig a cross-country load. It’s four cars:

You want two cars in front, one car in the back, with a load in between. Same principle as in the wild. Buffalo and zebras travel in packs, too. There’s strength in numbers.

And here’s the other advantage we have: we know police profile. We use it against them. That’s an important rule: Embrace racial stereotypes.

In business, racism is your friend. If you master the nuances of it, you will prevail. Race is everything in America, especially in law enforcement.

If you’re one Black guy driving from California to anywhere east, you’re going to be stopped. A Black man behind the wheel looks out of place anywhere west of Chicago, really. So use that to your advantage.

The guy driving that first car in the parade, the dummy car, we want him to be a caricature. We want him wilding out. We want a fucking criminal. We want in baggy pants with a hat turned sideways and tats and a record as long as his arm. We want him to be filthy.

The idea is for the cops to pull him over and say, “Son, what are you doing out here?”

The second car is the buffer. He’s watching to make sure that the cops don’t profile someone else, keeping an eye out, making sure that the guy behind him is safe.

You don’t really need that second car. It costs more and doesn’t do anything specific other than add a set of eyes. But it’s an extra buffer, one more layer of confusion for authorities. Three cars is too few, five cars is too expensive. But four is perfect.

The third car is the load. He’s carrying the shit in the trunk. That’s a rule: No drugs inside the passenger area of a car. A corollary to that is, Always drive a car with a trunk. No SUVs. No Muranos. None of that. An ordinary boring sedan with a trunk.

Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and winner of the 2008 National Magazine Award for columns and commentary. His most recent book is Hate Inc: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another. He’s also the author of I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street, about the infamous killing of Eric Garner by New York City police officers, Insane Clown President, The Divide, Griftopia, and The Great Derangement.

Reggie Harris is the co-founder of Hyphae Labs, which is leading the industry in psychedelic mushroom potency testing, and the creator of Oakland Hyphae, which hosted the Psilocybin Cup and The Oakland Psychedelic Conference. He has over 10 years of domestic experience in the US cannabis industry, is a member of the Advisory Board for Decriminalize Nature, and is active and passionate in The Movement for Black Lives.

Chapter Seven:

Embrace Racial Stereotypes

Here’s how you rig a cross-country load. It’s four cars:

You want two cars in front, one car in the back, with a load in between. Same principle as in the wild. Buffalo and zebras travel in packs, too. There’s strength in numbers.

And here’s the other advantage we have: we know police profile. We use it against them. That’s an important rule: Embrace racial stereotypes.

In business, racism is your friend. If you master the nuances of it, you will prevail. Race is everything in America, especially in law enforcement.

If you’re one Black guy driving from California to anywhere east, you’re going to be stopped. A Black man behind the wheel looks out of place anywhere west of Chicago, really. So use that to your advantage.

The guy driving that first car in the parade, the dummy car, we want him to be a caricature. We want him wilding out. We want a fucking criminal. We want in baggy pants with a hat turned sideways and tats and a record as long as his arm. We want him to be filthy.

The idea is for the cops to pull him over and say, “Son, what are you doing out here?”

The second car is the buffer. He’s watching to make sure that the cops don’t profile someone else, keeping an eye out, making sure that the guy behind him is safe.

You don’t really need that second car. It costs more and doesn’t do anything specific other than add a set of eyes. But it’s an extra buffer, one more layer of confusion for authorities. Three cars is too few, five cars is too expensive. But four is perfect.

The third car is the load. He’s carrying the shit in the trunk. That’s a rule: No drugs inside the passenger area of a car. A corollary to that is, Always drive a car with a trunk. No SUVs. No Muranos. None of that. An ordinary boring sedan with a trunk.