Via Capital Weekly:
At a press conference at the California NAACP’s Sacramento headquarters, the group’s president, Alice Huffman, portrayed marijuana laws as a means of criminalizing young black men. “It is time for them to stop using my community to fill the prisons,” Huffman said. “Once you get into the system, the next time you get arrested, they bump you up [to more serious charges].”
Arrests for “youth of color” rose four times faster than that, from 3,100 in 1990 to 16,300 in 2008. The study found that blacks and Latinos make up 44 percent of California’s population, but 56 percent of marijuana possession arrests. This was despite the fact that whites were slightly more likely than blacks to have had used marijuana in the past month; whites were about 50 percent more likely than Latinos to have used the drug in the preceding month.Wow, those stats are really depressing. Makes us wanna roll one up. Haaha! Kiddinggggg! [Capitol Weekly]
Well My People, I hate to break to ya, but we already in the system..Tell how many B & M tips do you see on Los Angeles sidewalks??!! Remember it's a plant and if you happen to set it on fire..there are some effects...What's Kitt
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