Posted on 09/07/2009 3:09:41 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
The racism of marijuana prohibition
Enforcement of marijuana laws disproportionately affects young African Americans -- even though their usage rates are lower than whites'...
So while the purported mainstream is delighting to "Weeds" and contemplating the new revenue that state-regulated marijuana would generate, there's even greater urgency to ending the prohibition of marijuana. California can't wait any longer to end the racist enforcement of marijuana laws.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Good God. Everything’s about race to the L.A. Times.
Most pot smokers don’t get arrested for sitting at home, watching TV and munching popcorn. Could it be that some of these folks that were charged were caught with it in their possession while doing something else?
At this juncture the “war on drugs(TM)” is the single biggest issue I have with republicans and I don’t even care any more what it takes to get rid of it. If racism can do it, hurray for racism...
Maybe the difference is because most whites are just using, while a lot of blacks are on the street dealing.
“At this juncture the “war on drugs(TM)” is the single biggest issue I have with republicans”
Oh, come on. No one has pursued a war on drugs for decades.
Remember, California wants marijuana legalized so they can then turn around and tax it. So if they can frame the argument around racism or prohibition or anything else they can dream of, they will. A broke state that is still issuing IOUs seemingly must drop to standards they otherwise may not have considered.
LLS
The failed war on drugs is idiotic.
The Republicans are absolutely hypocritical on the drug war. I will scream all day long about the Dems violating the Constitution but the Republicans do it every time on drugs.
Pathetic position on their part.
No matter how bad drugs are for you, prohibition is a violation of Liberty borne out of the same union of state and religion that brought about the prohibition of alcohol but without the same formality of Constitutional authority.
People on the Right who claim to believe in rights will never be consistent so long as they support anti-drug laws but will be picking and chusing which Constitutional rights to recognize according to their own whims, the same as any Leftist.
Libertarian much?
This article is hard to follow, what with nonwhites, of colors, blacks, and African Americans. It is only going to get worse with the addition of the various hues and hyphens.
Don't get them started. Many barrels of ink have been spilled on the subject of crack vs cocaine prison sentences. The deal is, you get in more trouble for crack, and that leads to more blacks than whites being incarcerated, for longer periods of time.
Back in the day, the worst smoke I ever scored I scored from black dealers.
>Libertarian much?
Nope. I just believe in the same rights that were recognized in the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, before temperance, anti-gun laws and the New Deal Supreme Court reinterpretations of commerce, general welfare, free exercise etc. Nothing more and nothing less.
There’s a racist under every bed and in every closet. Boo!
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