Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "Why We Must Legalize Marijuana | Robert Reich" video.

  1. I'm generally on board with legalizing cannabis. However, this racial aspect is WAY overblown. The whole, "blacks get arrested for marijuana possession more than whites" is misleading. Very few people are arrested SOLELY for marijuana possession, including black people. People get arrested for one crime, like assault or theft, they find marijuana on them, and they add that charge to a list. When looking up arrests by charge, you find a large number of people with marijuana, but it's only half the story, because you're not seeing what other charges are being levied. Plus, reasons a law was passed decades ago isn't nearly as relevant as how it's enforced today. Just because the law was created to attack Mexican people decades ago doesn't mean it's being used to do the same today.
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