Blacks in NJ Have Greater Chance of Being Busted for Pot, Report Says
ACLU calls for the decriminalization of pot and an end to racial profiling.
Blacks in New Jersey and across the country are far more likely to be arrested on marijuana-related charges than whites even though both groups are almost equally likely to use the drug, according to a report released this week by the American Civil LIberties Union. “[T]he War on Marijuana, like the larger War on Drugs of which it is a part, is a failure. It has needlessly ensnared hundreds of thousands of people in the criminal justice system, had a staggeringly disproportionate impact on African-Americans, and comes at a tremendous human and financial cost. The price paid by those arrested and convicted of marijuana possession can be significant and linger for years, if not a lifetime,” the authors wrote in “The War on Marijuana in …
Monk
9:30 pm on Friday, June 7, 2013
RM, if you "think that marijuana is poisonous to individuals and society and we'd all be better off without it", then shouldn't you be happy for blacks that they have a greater deterrent than whites? From that perspective, whites are the real victims here. more ›