Seven States Not to Get High In While Black

[marmar]

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

[Downwinder]

1. Texas gets left off another list.

[rhett o rick]

2. k&r thanks for posting.

[Fumesucker]

3. I had no idea the South was so widely distributed in America n/t

[Wounded Bear]

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]

7. South bashing just for the sake of South bashing?

[Fumesucker]

8. Sardonic humor

By a Southerner at the expense of those who think racism and bigotry are purely Southern phenomena.

[WillyT]

5. K & R !!!

[burnodo]

6. K&R

A sad state of affairs