Marijuana Should Be Decriminalized
The loss of human potential for getting caught with a small amount of pot is enormous, and blacks disproportionately pay the price
Time Magazine (US)
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to change New York’s laws to decriminalize marijuana. New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly have rushed to agree. Cuomo’s proposed change is a repudiation of Bloomberg’s stop-and-frisk program, which has arrested more than 400,000 people for marijuana crimes — more than were arrested by the three prior Mayors combined — while still not denting marijuana use or availability in New York. It seems that Bloomberg’s previous tactic was doing little besides creating unwilling clients for the prison-industrial complex.
