{"id":766,"date":"2012-09-29T07:07:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T07:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=20100"},"modified":"2012-09-29T07:07:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T07:07:40","slug":"discussion-on-racial-inequality-and-the-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/discussion-on-racial-inequality-and-the-war-on-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion on Racial Inequality and The War on Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/discussion-on-racial-inequality-and-the-war-on-drugs\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"173\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/war-on-drugs1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"war on drugs\" title=\"war on drugs\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20101\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/discussion-on-racial-inequality-and-the-war-on-drugs\/attachment\/war-on-drugs-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20101\" title=\"war on drugs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/war-on-drugs1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Many of the marijuana decriminalization and legalization efforts have found support due in large part to the demographics of those jailed for drug charges.\u00a0 Even though more whites use marijuana, they are far less likely to be incarcerated for it.\u00a0 Additionally, even as have been groomed to assume that crack is a &#8220;black&#8221; problem, a discussion on the popular <a href=\"http:\/\/current.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Current TV<\/a> show,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tytnetwork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> The Young Turks<\/a>, crack use by African Americans only accounts for 13% of overall use.\u00a0 That stat is very similar to the overall African American population.\u00a0 Below is a video from &#8220;The Young Turks&#8221; highlighting many compelling issues in the failed War on Drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/current.com\/shows\/the-young-turks\/videos\/robert-reich-romney-is-the-avatar-of-his-class\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for more info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"173\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/war-on-drugs1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"war on drugs\" title=\"war on drugs\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20101\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/discussion-on-racial-inequality-and-the-war-on-drugs\/attachment\/war-on-drugs-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20101\" title=\"war on drugs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/war-on-drugs1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Many of the marijuana decriminalization and legalization efforts have found support due in large part to the demographics of those jailed for drug charges.\u00a0 Even though more whites use marijuana, they are far less likely to be incarcerated for it.\u00a0 Additionally, even as have been groomed to assume that crack is a &#8220;black&#8221; problem, a discussion on the popular <a href=\"http:\/\/current.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Current TV<\/a> show,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tytnetwork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> The Young Turks<\/a>, crack use by African Americans only accounts for 13% of overall use.\u00a0 That stat is very similar to the overall African American population.\u00a0 Below is a video from &#8220;The Young Turks&#8221; highlighting many compelling issues in the failed War on Drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/current.com\/shows\/the-young-turks\/videos\/robert-reich-romney-is-the-avatar-of-his-class\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for more info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[374,52,305,593,594,56,9,51,70,1,3,595,74,61],"tags":[2952,2632,2883,3166,3167,2636,2631,5,3168,2652,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}