Black People : Is the End of Marijuana Prohibition the End of the War On Drugs? Probably Not.

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by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

What if policymakers wanted to make marijuana safe for taxation and corporate
profit, but needed to make sure legalization didn't produce new jobs and economic
opportunities for poor and working class communities, or make them lay off any cops
and judges, or have to close any prisons or jails? Well, the model in place in Colorado
today would be a good start.

"Ask yourself, what would it look like if policymakers wanted to end the prohibition of marijuana, but not necessarily the the war on drugs..."

The forty years of so-called “war on drugs” has been the rhetorical excuse for a
nationwide policy of punitive overpolicing in black and brown communities. Although
black and white rates of drug use have been virtually identical, law enforcement
strategies focused police resources almost exclusively upon communities of color.

Prosecutors and judges did their bit as well, charging and convicting whites
significantly less often, and to less severe sentences than blacks.
The forty years war on drugs has been the front door of what can only be described
as the prison state, in which African Americans are 13% of the population but more
than 40% of the prisoners, and the chief interactions of government with young black
males is policing, the courts and imprisonment. Given all that, the beginning of the
end of marijuana prohibition, first in Colorado and soon to be followed by other
states ought to be great good news. But not necessarily.

Ask yourself, what would it look like if policymakers wanted to end the prohibition of
marijuana, but not necessarily the the war on drugs. What if they desired to lock
down the potential economic opportunities opened up by legalizing weed to
themselves and their class, to a handful of their wealthy and well-connected friends
and campaign contributors? What if they wanted to make the legal marijuana market
safe for predatory agribusiness, which would like to claim lucrative patents on all the
genetic varieties of marijuana which can be legally grown, as they already try to do
with other crops?
Read more: http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/end-marijuana-prohibition-end-war-drugs-probably-not
 
After taking into consideration the fact that cannabis is a "gub'ment" construct ran by a very organized operative, that operative thus controls the ebb and flow....therefore the answer is no.
 
Interesting Gorilla,

Do you think it would ease prison population?

I believe it would just by eliminating all of those people who are arrested and have their life prospects ruined over a petty drug conviction.

The article talks about the profit motive, but it doesn't really address why this can't be an effect of a policy that legalizes weed.
 

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