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"Smoke and Horrors"---An excellent article by Charles Blow. "No one knows all the repercussions of legalizing marijuana, but it is clear that criminalizing it has made it a life-ruining racial weapon"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Smoke and Horrors By CHARLES M. BLOW- NY Times October 22, 2010 Go to this URL and click on the graphic to see the HUGE discrepancies on arrests for marijuana between Blacks and whites. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/opinion/23blow.html?ref=opinion Attorney General Eric Holder Jr.?s recent chest-thumping against the California ballot initiative that seeks to legalize marijuana underscores how the war on drugs in this country has become a war focused on marijuana, one being waged primarily against minorities and promoted, fueled and financed primarily by Democratic politicians. According to a report released Friday by the Marijuana Arrest Research Project for the Drug Policy Alliance and the N.A.A.C.P. and led by Prof. Harry Levine, a sociologist at the City University of New York: ?In the last 20 years, California made 850,000 arrests for possession of small amounts of marijuana, and half-a-million arrests in the last 10 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 23, 2010 (boomark / email).