it’s funny how liberals talk about legalizing pot in the sense of “why not/it’s like alcohol/this old lady with cancer could use a good painkiller” and never say “hey were putting thousands of black youth behind bars over this and it’s used to target black communities specifically and that needs to stop” it’s almost like liberal leaders and large swaths of their followers are just apathetic bourgeois elites who favor leisure and comfort over helping the poor and marginalized
Tag: prison industrial complex
it’s funny how liberals talk about legalizing pot in the sense of “why not/it’s like alcohol/this old lady with cancer could use a good painkiller” and never say “hey were putting thousands of black youth behind bars over this and it’s used to target black communities specifically and that needs to stop” it’s almost like liberal leaders and large swaths of their followers are just apathetic bourgeois elites who favor leisure and comfort over helping the poor and marginalized
This 4/20 please remember that even in legalized states, black Americans are still being arrested for possession or use of cannabis 10x more than white Americans despite both groups using cannabis at similar levels.
This 4/20 please remember that even in legalized states, black Americans are still being arrested for possession or use of cannabis 10x more than white Americans despite both groups using cannabis at similar levels.
Janelle Monáe performs and protests in coordination with Stop Mass Incarceration Network
Janelle Monáe performs and protests in coordination with Stop Mass Incarceration Network
rad-bad-and-dangerous-to-know:
I live in Colorado, as many know cannabis is legal here but voters making cannabis legal leaves the municipalities a conundrum. How do they keep newly built jails full? The answer is putting people in jail who have not been charged, people who have not been convicted of a crime and people involved in civil cases or de minimis infractions like speeding. Now of course debtors prisons were outlawed in the 19th century but they’re making return in defacto form. Arresting people for unpaid fines they can’t afford or what amounts to blackmailing people into paying civil judgements they can’t afford by putting them in jail until they come up with cash. It’s important to watch and fight against these municipalities who are making up the prison population by imprisoning people who should never have been taken into custody in the first place.
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