{"id":410,"date":"2015-07-19T20:38:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T01:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/?p=410"},"modified":"2015-07-19T20:40:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T01:40:59","slug":"does-social-equality-exist-rs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/2015\/07\/19\/does-social-equality-exist-rs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Does marijuana bring social inequality? RS.2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atkinson, Korri. \u201cStates spend $3.6 b8illion on racially biased marijuana arrests.\u201d Proquest.com. <\/em>New York Amsterdam News, 20 \u00a0June 2013. Web. 18 July, 2015<\/p>\n

Atkinson Khorri a journalist and author for the New York Amsterdam Newspaper, writes on a report from the American Civil Liberties Union named \u201cThe War on Marijuana in Black and White\u201d highlighting the U.S. biases arrests on marijuana. Khorri juxtaposes the enormous amount of arrests of African Americans compared to those of whites.\u00a0He also indicates \u00a0that there is a huge amount of money being spent to regulate marijuana laws and for incarcerating convicts when the U.S could be making profit from marijuana if it was to be legalized. Khorri emphasizes with the ACUL call for marijuana legalization to eliminate racial biases.<\/p>\n

Based on the report between 2001 and 2010 there were more than seven million arrests for marijuana possession in the U.S. with more than 800,000 arrests in 2010 alone. According to the director of ACLU Criminal Law Report Project, state and local governments have aggressively enforced the marijuana law selectively against black people and communities. The report demonstrates that Iowa has the greatest racial disparity arrest, although African Americans make up only 3.1 percent of the population, black Iowans are 8.3 times more likely to be arrested. For this reason the ACLU believes that police officers are being bias towards the whites and unfairly arresting more blacks than whites when it is obvious that African Americans don\u2019t make up most of the population. To back up his argument Atkinson uses the analyses from the New York Civil Liberties Union, in which according to the analyses \u201cBrooklyn and Manhattan have the highest ratio disparities in arrests in New York State, where Black New Yorkers are nine times more likely to be arrested.\u201d As pointed out by the NY CLU, blacks are being handled unfairly compared to the whites, whatever happened to equality?<\/p>\n

The author describes the useless amount of money being wasted on marijuana laws when legalizing marijuana can \u201c\u2026Save millions of dollars that are being used to enforce marijuana laws.\u201d He indicates New York has spent more than $600 million enforcing marijuana with Black New Yorkers 4.5 times most likely to be arrested. The report suggest a regulation and a tax on marijuana to eradicate the unfair, specifically on racially targeted enforcement laws. In other words, the Union wants legalize marijuana to make profit and not waste millions of dollars on enforcing laws. Not only will it remove the racial bias that is present all over the U.S. including in large and small counties, cities, and rural areas and in high and low income communities, but it will help the economy grow. To support their argument the ACLU concludes that states will spend $200 billion dollars enforcing laws over the next six years if bans on marijuana continue.<\/p>\n

The information obtained by the author can be\u00a0useful to those supporting\u00a0the legalization of marijuana. According to a survey 52 percent of Americans support the legalization while 45 percent oppose it. \u00a0The data obtained by the ACLU is useful to demonstrate the controversies linked with marijuana such as crime and racism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atkinson, Korri. \u201cStates spend $3.6 b8illion on racially biased marijuana arrests.\u201d Proquest.com. New York Amsterdam News, 20 \u00a0June 2013. Web. 18 July, 2015 Atkinson Khorri a journalist and author for the New York Amsterdam Newspaper, writes on a report from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rs-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}