[Arec Barrwin]

Unbelieveable

[BlessedBeGod]

Good God. Everything’s about race to the L.A. Times.

[guitarplayer1953]

Then they need to end the racism of cocaine since most coke users who snort it are white.

[Cementjungle]

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?

[wendy1946]

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...

[cranked]

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.

[LibLieSlayer]

I had a bowel movement... it was brown... is that racist?

LLS

[mysterio]

The failed war on drugs is idiotic.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

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.

[CarryingOn]

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.

[windsorknot]

There’s a racist under every bed and in every closet. Boo!

[Awestruck]

While their theory is a complete load of tripe, count me as having a libertarian bent when it comes to legalizing a drug that is far less harmful than any single precription medication out there already.. we’re too smart to fall prey to the reefer madness hype.. have you seen the prescription drug ads and their side effect? shameful.. we could generate taxes from the sale of marijuana if it were regulated. The war on drugs is a joke and harms more than it helps. Flame away.

[IDFbunny]

Let’s lighten up on rape laws because blacks are beat the curve on that to. /sarc

[TXnMA]

"Enforcement of marijuana laws disproportionately affects young African Americans -- even though their usage rates are lower than whites'..."

~~~

Translation: "All dis narcin' on the po' Black brothas who is gettin' their bling by peddlin' ganj to the whiteys jus ain't fair..." ("'Co'se, don't go bustin' on ol whitey too much -- 'cause that bees screwin' wif our market...")

[Tolsti2]

Legalize any crime that’s done more by x race than whites.

That should shut em up, right? There will be a wide shift of the landscape of the country, since murder would be legalized, but hey...

[kcvl]

For 20 years, California State Director Stephen Gutwillig has worked for cultural and social change community organizations in Boston, New York and Los Angeles. Prior to joining the organization, Gutwillig served for eight years as executive director of Outfest, the L.A.-based nonprofit devoted to nurturing, exhibiting and preserving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media.

Gutwillig also previously served as director of development and communications for the Labor/Community Strategy Center, the L.A.-based social and environmental justice organization best known for organizing low-income, transit-dependent bus riders. Gutwillig’s experience includes work as a nonprofit organizational development consultant. He currently serves on the Lesbian and Gay Community Funding Board of the Liberty Hill Foundation.

[kcvl]

http://www.indiewire.com/images/uploads/iw9/ots/outfest07two.jpg

Stephen Gutwillig, executive director, Outfest: Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Stephen Gutwillig has been executive director of Outfest: Los Angeles Gay and. Lesbian Film Festival since 1999.

Stephen Gutwillig, California director of the pro-legalization Drug Policy Alliance.

“We can’t borrow or slash our way out of this deficit,” said Stephen Gutwillig, California state director of the Drug Policy Alliance. “The legislature must consider innovative sources of new revenue, and marijuana should be at the top of that list.”

“In ever-increasing numbers, the citizens of this state are ready to junk our failed prohibition policies, even if that means taking on the feds,” said Stephen Gutwillig, state director of the Drug Policy Alliance. The voters, he said, are “way ahead” of public officials on the issue.

“The ink’s barely dry on the Obama administration’s kinder, gentler approach to medical marijuana, and the DEA is up to its old tactics,” said Stephen Gutwillig of the Drug Policy Alliance. State prohibits profit.

Stephen Gutwillig, California’s state director of the Drug Policy Alliance, said that the new policy would protect millions of Americans who benefited from the medicinal properties of marijuana. “Under the Obama administration, the federal government may finally be recovering from a long bout with ‘reefer madness,’ “ he said.

[AuntB]

Racist? Why because it’s illegal aliens Mexican Drug Cartels growing it all over the nation in our parks and forests and burning down 88,000 acres...at least...in California last month??

[Altura Ct.]

The list of what is not “racist” is pretty short.

[x_plus_one]

Reading between the lines reveals that blacks are dopers and can’t hold their dope. This is such a flattering appeal.

[Sockdologer]

Also, clipping your nails is racist.