Comment Re:Congressional Pharmaceutical Complex (Score 3, Informative) 217
Why is the parent post moderated flamebait?
The comment is statistically accurate if a bit understated. Lots of charts:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
There are countless articles anyone on
The punishment falls disproportionately on people of color. Blacks make up 50 percent of the state and local prisoners incarcerated for drug crimes. Black kids are 10 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes than white ones -- even though white kids are more likely to abuse drugs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
As for the "war on black people" comment, see the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Once a person is convicted of a felony, like for having an ounce of pot or whatever, huge swaths of civil and privacy rights are just taken away for life, finding employment becomes very hard, and they end up never being financially capable of escaping the ghetto. This is just as effective as "whites only" laws.