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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeven States Not to Get High In While Black
from Rolling Stone:
Seven States Not to Get High In While Black
ACLU report documents shockingly racist enforcement of marijuana laws
By Tim Dickinson
June 5, 2013 4:39 PM ET
The ACLU has published an astonishing report on the racist enforcement of our nation's marijuana laws. While pot is consumed at nearly equal rates by black and white Americans, blacks are 3.7 times more likely to be arrested for possession a ratio that can soar above 8:1 in individual states. Here are the seven states with the most outrageously racist patterns of enforcement, each with an arrest ratio of worse than 5:1.
How Much More Likely Black People Are To Be Arrested for Marijuana Possession Than White People, By State
1. Iowa: 8.34 times more likely
2. Washington, D.C.: 8.05 times more likely
3. Minnesota: 7.81 times more likely
4. Illinois: 7.56 times more likely
5. Wisconsin: 5.98 times more likely
6. Kentucky: 5.95 times more likely
7. Pennsylvania: 5.19 times more likely
(Source: 2010 FBI/Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data, ACLU)
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/seven-states-not-to-get-high-in-while-black-20130605#ixzz2VODvyrb2
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marmar
Jun 2013
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Downwinder
(12,869 posts)1. Texas gets left off another list.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)2. k&r thanks for posting.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)3. I had no idea the South was so widely distributed in America n/t
Wounded Bear
(58,757 posts)4. There have been studies on the diffusion.....
of Christian evangelicals from the south throughout the midwest and west, especially in the Ohio valley.
Yeah, the cancer has been spreading.
cordelia
(2,174 posts)7. South bashing just for the sake of South bashing?
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)8. Sardonic humor
By a Southerner at the expense of those who think racism and bigotry are purely Southern phenomena.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)5. K & R !!!
A sad state of affairs