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[-] tox_solid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

White people smoke weed too ya know

[-] null_recurrent@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

At about the same rates, in fact. And yet, arrests are way higher for black people (in Iowa it's like 8 times higher).

The war on drugs is also a good tool to oppress poor white people, but the data on this one are really stark. Prohibition is a major tool of racial oppression in the US.

[-] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I think the point was that it's extremely hard to prove that a cop didn't smell something, so they can see a black person, lie and say they smell weed and have 0 consequences for harassing them.

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