Black People Still Make Up the Biggest Amount of Marijuana Arrests Even in States Where It's Legal

[Lifejennings]

and prohibit marijuana use for people under 21. A recent report by the pro-legalization Drug Policy Alliance found that even as arrests in states that legalized pot decline for black and white people, black people are still more likely to be arrested.

Marijuana legalization hasn’t ended racial disparities in arrests
Take Colorado, one of the first states to legalize pot back in 2012, and the first state to allow recreational marijuana sales in 2014. According to a 2016 report from the Colorado Department of Public Safety, the arrest rate for black people for weed-related offenses is still nearly three times that of whites. While marijuana arrests in general have decreased, this hasn’t affected all groups equally. “The decrease in the number of marijuana arrests by race is the greatest for White arrestees (‐51%) compared to Hispanics (‐33%) and African‐Americans (‐25%),” the report notes.

The current state of the marijuana industry is truly disturbing. 90+% of all dispensaries are white-owned while there are still black people rotting in jail for marijuana. Legalization also doesn't do much to curb the fact that we are more likely to be arrested for using marijuana despite multiple studies showing that whites use it at equal or greater levels. How can we benefit from the new marijuana industry?

#420Day: even as states legalize marijuana, racial disparities in weed arrests persist

 

[Sterling Archer]

They dont arrest black people because of crimes committed. They arrest black people because we are black.

 

[G-Zeus]

arrested for what though...

also i know for a fact more yt people high in public.. but for the sake of knowing.. do we know why they arrested?

 

[Rusty$hackleford]

I'm sure I'd occasionally purchase from these dispensaries if I lived in a legal state. But ideally, I'd want to organize and maintain a risk-free perpetual grow op. fukk enriching the profiteers.
Wish Arizona would get with the fukkin program, but like they say, wish in one hand...

 

[Ol’Otis]

not surprising

 

[get these nets]

The current state of the marijuana industry is truly disturbing. 90+% of all dispensaries are white-owned while there are still black people rotting in jail for marijuana. Legalization also doesn't do much to curb the fact that we are more likely to be arrested for using marijuana despite multiple studies showing that whites use it at equal or greater levels. How can we benefit from the new marijuana industry?

#420Day: even as states legalize marijuana, racial disparities in weed arrests persist

Black people with the acumen to succeed as business owners, grew up looking at drug dealing as a shortcut. Or something that people without options did.
Going to be hard to get the best minds of the community to view weed sales as a respectable job/business.

Whites have less problems with morals and respectability.

 

[Fillerguy]

Pinkmen doing what pigs do best

 

[SirReginald]

They dont arrest black people because of crimes committed. They arrest black people because we are black.

 

[get these nets]

KRS ONE, the GOAT(along with Scarface)

song is from the late 1980s
"everything is legal if the govt. can see you"

 

[Hater Eraser]

Black people with the acumen to succeed as business owners, grew up looking at drug dealing as a shortcut. Or something that people without options did.
Going to be hard to get the best minds of the community to view weed sales as a respectable job/business.

Whites have less problems with morals and respectability.

Just like porn

 

[Strapped]

Is it good policing or institutional racism

 

[Sauce Dab]

Slavery was never abolished

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

WHITE PEOPLE MAKE UP THE BULK OF SALES. IF IT'S LEGAL, THEY BUY LEGALLY NOW. WHITE PEOPLE BUY DRUGS FROM US IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS GENERALLY. NOW THEY DON'T HAVE TO BUY WEED FROM US IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. THEY GET IT AT LEGALLY. SO THEIR NUMBERS GETTING CHOPPED IN HALF MAKE SENSE. WE STILL SELLING IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS THOUGH, ILLEGALLY. WE JUST AREN'T MAKING THAT CONVERSION TO LEGAL AS QUICK(OR BARELY AT ALL). WHITE PEOPLE SWOOPED IN AND SNATCHED THAT CLIENTELE.

 

[Cave Savage]

That's my problem with the legalization movement. It comes with so many regulations that it still allows bullshyt like this. It's like the movement is just so that 30 year old white stoners can get high in peace

 

[10bandz]

That's my problem with the legalization movement. It comes with so many regulations that it still allows bullshyt like this. It's like the movement is just so that 30 year old white stoners can get high in peace

that's all it's about bro. Not just get high in peace but to reap all the profits from the market