The marijuana debate has gone on for decades with some success in the last five years. It has become legalized in Colorado which has been in the news for making a lucrative business from selling marijuana. Weed smoking has been going on for decades but has been demonized as this extremely addictive drug that influences people to lose all inhibition and partake in risky activity. Lately, politicians and those in power are seeing the potential in legalizing marijuana some are even implementing the idea of putting it in a pill form. Well, although I do not like weed and neither have I done it in the past I hope this law passes. Due to the fact, black men have been serving prison sentences for selling and possessing weed. If it is legalized then it will minimize the number of black men in prison. Hopefully, if the law passes it will also cut down on racial profiling. Too often I see cops searching the cars of black people during routine traffic stops in hopes of finding weed. They will inconvenience and hold up black citizens based on a whim that there are drugs inside their car. And if these drugs are found these black people are taken to jail or ticketed resulting in a criminal record and subsequently almost no ability to find a job. In my opinion, marijuana is no different from alcohol which some argue is more addictive. I have heard of people spending more and more time in AA and struggling with alcohol addiction and suffering seizures from withdrawals due to, lack of drinking than I ever heard from smoking weed. I hear many conservative people try to compare smoking weed to smoking crack which is like comparing stealing a candy bar to robbing a bank. As a person who has stayed on a college campus I have seen that alcohol has the ability to influence one night stands, vandalism, fighting, drunken vomiting and drunk driving but it's sold at just about every store, drank at formal dinners and on family occasions. So why is weed demonized? Laws in America have a funny way of being race specific sometimes without ever stating it. Marijuana was banned because it was said to have caused black men to rape white women. So therefore, black men are propagandized as innate rapist and drug abusers who need to be heavily watched and searched for drugs to protect White America. Although, statistics show white men are more likely to have drugs on them when they are pulled over. So where do we go from here? I hope legalizing marijuana will prevent prison terms for African American males and those who are serving time should be released from prison and there criminal records erased. I want to live in a country where it's legal system is based on fairness not the color of one's skin.
Larry Valdes
10/15/2015 06:54:55 pm
desde ese punto de viste,le conviene mas a los afroamericanos la legalización de la droga Comments are closed.
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