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"Marijuana law reform is a civil rights issue"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this commentary appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle and authored by Alice Huffman, the president of the California State NAACP. Here is how it starts and ends: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." So said the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1967, when he spoke out against the Vietnam War. At the time, he was roundly criticized for speaking out on an issue considered outside the purview of civil rights leaders. King understood better than most at the time, the true cost of war - in lives lost, in futures squandered, in dreams deferred and in misspent resources. Eventually, a majority of Americans came to agree with him about the war in Vietnam. His moral courage lay in speaking out in the face of no agreement, caring more about his integrity than his popularity...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 17, 2010 (boomark / email).