The War on Drugs has been a "color-blind" system of racial disparity. Young black and brown men are found guilty of felonies and thrown in prison for minor drug offenses for which young white men get off scott-free. Millions of young men of color lose their citizenship rights for possession of minor amounts of marijuana and are disenfranchised for the rest of their lives. Drug use should not be a crime at all, and certainly not for just one demographic. That's called racism.
Sent January 11, 2018
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