Re:Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020
by chitowneats on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:22PM
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I'm sorry but you're just incorrect if you're suggesting white Americans don't consume cannabis at high rates.
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Re:Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020
by bigfudge on Saturday April 24, 2021 @04:20PM
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No I wasn’t suggesting that. However in black populations in the UK at least smoking weed is more ‘normal’ than it is in white populations. By normal I mean accepted and not deviant, not necessarily to imply higher consumption.
Re:Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020
by chitowneats on Saturday April 24, 2021 @04:33PM
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I see. There is a history of racist or xenophobic criminalization of marijuana (when it was called that commonly) in the US. See reefer madness and associated politics. Disparity in use is no longer the case in the US.
Re:Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020
by banannaise on Monday April 26, 2021 @04:09PM
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Cannabis is typically used a pretext to police Black people for other things (that is, police assume they can get them for another crime, and even if they can't, they can still use cannabis charges).
White people consuming cannabis is not typically a police priority.
Re:Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020
by chitowneats on Thursday April 29, 2021 @11:43AM
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You're speaking with a white person who has been charged and convicted of cannabis possession. It certainly seemed like a priority for them when I was in the back of the squad car, and when they knocked on my door and arrested me at 5:30 AM in my underwear for supposedly failing to pay a fine I had actually paid.