New Report Shows Marijuana Arrests Unfairly Target Blacks

by Mike Meno on July 1, 2010

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Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2010. On the same day that the California NAACP endorsed that state’s ballot initiative to end marijuana prohibition (now officially named Proposition 19), our allies at the Drug Policy Alliance released a new study that shines a light on the systemic racial bias behind marijuana arrests taking place all across California.