Monday, August 23, 2010
First the California NAACP endorsed it. Now the National Black Police Association voiced support for a measure to legalize marijuana.
On the common sense marijuana meter, score it black folks 2, white folks 0.
Proposition 19, on the California ballot to legalize, tax and regulate pot, is a measure that's time has come.
Too many public resources are wasted chasing petty pot dealers, and there is growing evidence that marijuana laws are unevenly applied by police in the streets when it comes to race.
But race has little to do with why marijuana should be legalized. It simply isn't a big deal for many Americans these days. It makes little sense to criminalize an act that lots of Americans take part of in the quiet and privacy of their own homes.
I would rather see the money used for pot prosecution go for violent criminals - the type of people who really lower the quality of our lives.
The NAACP in California and the black police association agree. When are we going to see some majority organizations show similar guts toendorse the obvious?
Source: Black Voices