Race, ethnicity, and drug war

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 * See: Portal: Influential black cannabis users. Also: National Rifle Association and mandatory minimum sentencing.


 * The War on Marijuana in Black and White. June 3, 2013. American Civil Liberties Union.
 * Fabrice Olivet talks to TalkingDrugs about race and drugs in France. By Rupert George, March 22, 2013.
 * Race and Prison | Drug War Facts: "Human Rights Watch’s analysis of prison admission data for 2003 revealed that relative to population, blacks are 10.1 times more likely than whites to be sent to prison for drug offenses."
 * Former surgeon general Joycelyn Elders calls for marijuana legalization. By the CNN Wire Staff. October 18, 2010.

Cory Booker and Quentin Tarantino on the Drug War
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Incarceration nation
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2011. Oct. 19. NAACP billboard and ACLU lawsuit.
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Blacks in Government - National Organization of Blacks in Government (BIG) - Say War on Drugs Is Racist. Article on Black Entertainment Television (BET) site.

See: War On Voting Is Most Determined Disenfranchisement Effort Since Jim Crow.

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). LEAP - Matthew Fogg (former Chief Deputy US Federal Marshal): "Drug prohibition helps the US maintain a racial apartheid prison industrial complex."

Astronomical U.S. incarceration increase
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The new Jim Crow
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The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste. NORML Blog. By: Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator. See Wikipedia: Jim Crow.

Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.



Drug war and incarceration rates worldwide
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Breaking the Taboo
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Cost of drug war
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 * Cost of U.S. drug war:

Cannabis is safer
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 * See: Cannabis is safer.

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