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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you vote against weed legalization, you’re voting in favor a racism.  Because that’s how the current laws are applied. [/quote]

Wait, what?  Is there a certain race that smokes weed?  What does that even mean?

I know plenty of people of various races that enjoy pot.  [/quote]

It's pretty common to partake across races.  But one race gets arrested for it disproportionately.  So criminalizing it means creating a greater negative impact on people of that race.[/quote]

So, nobody is arresting explicitly for weed.   There are drug arrests, but they are to get at the associated violent crime.   Drug related homicides in Montgomery County at least, are exclusively over marijuana.  That won't go away.  The black market won't go away.  And the associated violence won't go away.

And yes, there is more violence in lower income black and brown communities.  So that's where police get called.  That's why they have more contact with Black and brown people.   That's why there are arrest disparities.   Control for where the 911 calls come from, where the violence occurs, and the racial disparities substantially, if not completely, disappear.

Want to end racial disparities?  Get rid of concentrated poverty. [/quote]

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