Comments on: The Declaration of Independence (Drug War Revision) http://stash.norml.org/the-declaration-of-independence-drug-war-revision The Growing Truth About Cannabis Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:32:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: "Radical" Russ http://stash.norml.org/the-declaration-of-independence-drug-war-revision/comment-page-1#comment-668 "Radical" Russ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:03:53 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=1202#comment-668 That is demonstrably not true. You are mixing up the legitimate arrests and incarceration of violent criminals with those people arrested and incarcerated for drugs. I was writing about the <a href="http://www.drugwarfacts.org/racepris.htm" rel="nofollow">disproportionate arrest and imprisonment of blacks and Hispanics for drug offenses</a>. That is demonstrably not true. You are mixing up the legitimate arrests and incarceration of violent criminals with those people arrested and incarcerated for drugs. I was writing about the disproportionate arrest and imprisonment of blacks and Hispanics for drug offenses.

]]> By: bullshit http://stash.norml.org/the-declaration-of-independence-drug-war-revision/comment-page-1#comment-662 bullshit Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:32:49 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=1202#comment-662 The drug war is a sham, and it is taking our freedom and making our government our enemy. That said, your comment that it is somehow disproportionately destroying minorities is wrong. You are most likely to be shot by a black youth. That is a fact. If the prisons are full of black and Hispanics, then it is because they committed the crimes. If you said it affects the poor, then it would be more accurate. To say that only blacks and Hispanics are poor is stupid. Most black and Hispanics in prison are there for violence. The drug war is a sham, and it is taking our freedom and making our government our enemy.

That said, your comment that it is somehow disproportionately destroying minorities is wrong. You are most likely to be shot by a black youth. That is a fact. If the prisons are full of black and Hispanics, then it is because they committed the crimes. If you said it affects the poor, then it would be more accurate. To say that only blacks and Hispanics are poor is stupid. Most black and Hispanics in prison are there for violence.

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