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NAACP Passes Historic Resolution To End Harmful, Racist War On Drugs
Krysten GwynneToday, at the NAACP Annual Convention in Los Angeles, CA, the National Association for the Advanced of Colored People (NAACP) passed a resolution calling for an end to the failed "War on...
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Maastricht cannabis cafes to ban all but Dutch, Belgians, Germans
By. DutchNews.nl Cannabis cafes in Maastricht are to ban all but Dutch, German and Belgian nationals from their premises as part of a plan to reduce the nuisance caused by marijuana smokers, the AD...
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Racism: One More Reason to Legalize Pot
by Rend Smith In D.C. Superior Court on Tuesday, 36 people were scheduled to be arraigned for carrying marijuana. The alleged offenders were collared by police for marijuana possession in the latter...
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NORML To Mayor Bloomberg: Stop Arresting So Many Minorities For Marijuana!
By Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director Mayor Michael Bloomberg, by most all accounts, is one of the most fascinating political characters of the last decade. A self-made billionaire who, with a...
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New York Marijuana Law Enforecement Revealed
by Elizabeth Brennon Although the New York legislature decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana in 1977, marijuana possession is still the top reason for arrests in New York City and one...
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How the NYPD's Ongoing Petty Pot Arrest Crusade Hurts the Black and Latino...
Gabriel SayeghThe new data is in: the New York City Police Department made 50,680 arrests for the lowest-level marijuana possession offense in 2011 – more arrests than any year in the last decade. New...
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How the drug war rolls back civil rights
Larry GabrielState Rep. Rick Olson (R-Saline) made an amazing blog post last month. He had recently attended a luncheon hosted by the Legislative Black Caucus to hear Michelle Alexander, a lawyer and...
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Marijuana law just creates criminals
Hakeem JeffriesMore than 50,000 people in 2011 were arrested in New York City for possessing small amounts of marijuana -- the majority of whom were black and Latino -- at a considerable judicial and...
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10 Reasons to Revisit Marijuana Policy Now
Maia SzalavitzCulturally, marijuana's become hardly more than a punchline. But in reality, U.S. marijuana policy is no joke; it causes great harm, both directly and indirectly. Here are the 10 most...
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It's Not Just NYC: Across America, Only Black and Brown People Get Arrested...
Stephen Wishnia New York City, the pot-bust capital of the Western world, is notorious for the racial skewing of its marijuana arrests. Over the last 15 years, more than 85 percent of the...
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