Whatever color the residents of the legal cannabis states happen to be.
If the people in those other states want to stop incarcerating pot smokers- and we all know the drug war falls disproportionately on POC- then unfortunately given the reality we have now, it is up to the residents of those states to change THEIR OWN LAWS.
We'd all like to see action at the federal level, and for some of us that has informed our activism and who we support in primary contests, etc--- but again, it is fallacious nonsense to blame the people who are trying to end the drug war, instead of the people who are trying to perpetuate it, just because someone thinks the people trying to do the ending are the wrong color.
We've had these discussions repeatedly. The way you end the mass incarceration of drug criminals is to get rid of the laws that put them in prison. While law enforcement may discriminate, if the law isnt there they have nothing to discriminate with.
I find it eternally interesting how invariably east coast outlets (can't get much more east coast than "the atlantic", can you?) want to write post mortems on pot legalization that has really only just gotten underway.
Take a look at Oregon- marijuana arrests and incarceration are way down because under state law, now, it is extremely difficult to commit a jailable offense that involves just marijuana.
Aha, you say, but Oregon is full of white people!
True. So take our laws and pass them in the other states, then.
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