In Washington, DC they recently did a study which showed that about the same number of whites smoke MJ as do blacks. However 91% of the MJ arrests were of blacks, and the 9% included some Hispanics. DC has 60,000 “returned citizens” who have to sign the BOX about arrest records. Major source of black unemployment in DC and probably elsewhere. Decriminalizing or legalizing MJ will significantly reduce the number of arrests. Of course, it will also cut into the profits of the Prison Corporation of America and similar. On the other hand it will be a major savings to taxpayers with fewer arrests and legal proceedings, and perhaps fewer police needed.
My late husband grew up in a small village in the middle west. He and friends were arrested for taking the church bell down and hiding it in a corn field. The local sheriff put them to work on community clean up projects and at the end of the day took them to the river for a swim. Fast forward a few years and my husband was the town marshall there. I asked him what his job was like. The village was a few miles from a university town. There was no liquor by the drink legal in the state, so the kids would go to the village of 500 where the 3 bars in town sold set ups and the kids brought their own bottles. Husband said basically he was the town bouncer!
My better half and I were discussing white smoke, just a few days ago ... and everywhere we looked we saw white smoke. Seems everyone was electing a new Pope.