Posted on 06/28/2010 5:25:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
The state NAACP is expressing "unconditional support" for the November ballot measure to legalize marijuana, continuing proponents' framing of it as a civil rights issue.
"We are joining a growing number of medical professionals, labor organizations, law enforcement authorities, local municipalities, and approximately 56 percent of the public, in saying that it is time to decriminalize the use of marijuana," state NAACP President Alice Huffman said in a news release Monday. "There is a strong racial component that must be considered when we investigate how the marijuana laws are applied to people of color."
The measure, Control and Tax Cannabis Initiative 2010, was designated Monday as Proposition 19.
The Drug Policy Alliance will join the California State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition at a news conference Tuesday morning in Sacramento to release a report, "Targeting Blacks for Marijuana," based on marijuana possession arrests of African Americans in California's 25 largest counties....
Huffman said data from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice shows half of California's marijuana possession arrestees in 1990 were nonwhite and 28 percent were under age 20, but in 2009, 62 percent were nonwhite and 42 percent were under age 20. Marijuana possession arrests of youth of color rose from about 3,100 in 1990 to about 16,300 in 2008 — a surge about three times greater than that group's population growth, she said.
"We have empirical proof that the application of the marijuana laws has been unfairly applied to our young people of color," Huffman said. "Justice is the quality of being just and fair, and these laws have been neither just nor fair."
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Yea, this is going to “...Advance Colored People” for sure, and drive up Doritos sales.
Statistics do not prove “discrimination”, they prove who is abusing the law.
Quacks prescribe it to minors. How hard can it be to get it?
Actually they prove who gets arrested more, a higher precentage of white smoke weed then blacks.
“Facts About Marijuana Use,” Drew W. Edwards, M.S., and Mark S. Gold, M.D. 6 Feb 2001
Yes, but more blacks SELL IT...a bigger crime than smoking it.
The NAACP is doing everything possible to distroy the culture of ‘colored people’.
National Association for the Advancement of Cultivated Pot.
How quait.
quait = quaint
How stupid.
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