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25 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
1/ This is an insane waste of resources and disproportionately impacts minorities. eveningsun.com/story/news/202…
2/ According to the article, "State police figures show a 1% increase in the number of marijuana arrests between 2019 and 2020." That's also insane given that we were locked down for much of 2020.
3/ Even before decriminalization and legalization for recreational purposes, law enforcement and prosecutors should have been putting marijuana arrests at the very bottom of their priority lists.
4/ And yet, we continue to see police departments proudly boasting on social media of their drug busts with tables full of marijuana. This is completely tone deaf.
5/ The time to end the drug war and the time for decriminalization and legalization was a long time ago. Continuing to blind ourselves to this fact is unproductive, destructive, and quite frankly, racist. /end rant
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