Chris Hayes on racist pot laws & enforcement

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 1/5/14 at 3:12pm

Chris Hayes is a white guy who gets it.

"Chris Hayes on His Own Pot Past: If I Was Black ‘My Ass Would’ve Been in the Back of a Squad Car’"

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-hayes-on-his-own-pot-past-if-i-was-black-my-ass-wouldve-been-in-the-back-of-a-squad-car/


David Brooks is not

"The Brooks column is particularly infuriating because in just a few hundred words it perfectly captures why marijuana needs to be legalized. Here's this grasping, status-obsessed yuppie who first admits that that he smoked an illegal drug without consequence in his youth, then turns around and tells us, as a graying and bespectacled post-adult, that it would be best if the drug remained illegal for the masses.

Would David Brooks feel the same way about drug laws if he was one of the hundreds of thousands of Americans arrested in weed-related incidents every year (it was over 700,000 people in 2012)? If he'd been prevented from getting a student loan or getting a state job because of such a bust? If he'd lost a professional license, or had his property seized, or even had a child taken away from him?"

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/yuppie-prohibition-league-denounces-pot-legalization-20140103