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My Latest. In many states where marijuana is now "legal," marijuana related arrests of African Americans & Latinos have actually INCREASED - dramatically in many instances. What we're seeing is that racism is deeply baked even into these new "reforms."https://theintercept.com/2018/01/25/marijuana-legalization-weed-drug-arrest/ …
10. In Colorado, which "legalized" recreational marijuana, arrests of white people have plummeted, but arrests of African-Americans and Latinos have actually skyrocketed as much as 50 percent. One has to ask: For whom did Colorado make marijuana legal?
I live in Colorado. I want to know more about this. I don’t know about ownership, but it seems like 50/50 employees are white vs POC. What’s the solution to eliminate inequities in Justice with regards to weed?
It’s not 50/50 here in CO. In fact, we only have 1 Black female dispensary owner in the state. We must do better. That includes micro licenses so that those w/o large investors can enter the industry and eliminate the prohibition on those w/ former MJ convictions.
I didn't think that stat could possibly be true, and fortunately upon some googling I see that it isn't. Those are numbers are true of under-21's, though.https://www.npr.org/2016/06/29/483954157/as-adults-legally-smoke-pot-in-colorado-more-minority-kids-arrested-for-it …
(True) legalization doesn't end racial disparity in policing, but it absolutely reduces marijuana arrests for minority groups, dramatically so.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/21/pot-legalization-hasnt-done-anything-to-shrink-the-racial-gap-in-drug-arrests/?utm_term=.458b63cfdedd …
Would love to retweet. Source pls?
Source? Oh he doesn't need to back up his claims or provide sources or links..
THEY should just say, legal for WHITES ONLY and get it over with..
I didn’t see it stayed in the article but what mj-related crimes exactly are POC being arrested for in Colorado? Possession? Sale w/o a license?
Okay found my answer in anothet article. Seems to be primarily minors
Data points - provide them - oh, & the data has to be from 21 years & up, and verifiable. Show me the data / don't be dissing my state without it #CO
Didnt even know there were Latinos in Colorado and probably jst a handful of Blacks which means Police can probably target them a lot easier
Same folks for whom it's been implicitly legal for a generation or two. Infuriating.
Totally agree that ending structural racism will take much more than legalising weed. But this bit seems to clash with the numbers presented by @DrugPolicyOrg, which show a [shamefully] differentiated, yet overall positive, effect for PoC? http://www.drugpolicy.org/legalization-status-report …pic.twitter.com/ByBsz0dRyw
Let alone how the legalization of marijuana has also slowly began to close the window of people of color to take advantage of legally selling the product .
And getting into the industry
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