If you’re white, that joint probably won’t lead to jail time

Has the new year started out on a high or a drugged-out low? The decriminalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado has been heralded as the end of prohibition — and alternately lamented as the rock-bottom of America’s morality.

If you’re white, that joint probably won’t lead to jail time Rethinking_Pot_The_First_Sales-0009d

If you’re white, that joint probably won’t lead to jail time Rethinking_Pot_The_First_Sales-0009d

But few have acknowledged the obvious: The media’s images of mostly scruffy-looking, smiling people, lined up to score some newly legal dope, are overwhelmingly white.
Now imagine the reaction — from the media, your mother and the Justice Department — if these lines were filled with young Hispanics or African Americans with cornrows, do-rags and sagging pants? We can almost hear the conversation shifting from warnings about the health risks of the munchies to panic over marijuana as a “gateway drug” — and the violence, gang activity and criminality it sows.

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If you’re white, that joint probably won’t lead to jail time

If you’re white, that joint probably won’t lead to jail time

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