War on Drugs is the New Jim Crow in New Orleans

WWL-4 in New Orleans interviews Ira Glasser, president of the Drug Policy Alliance, who explains how racial discrimination is perpetuated through America's harsh drug laws. Money line: "Al Capone did not shoot people because he was drunk. Nobody gets shot for selling cigarettes. It's the prohibition law that creates the crime, not the drug." (

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• marijuana
• NewOrleans
• Jim
• Crow
• prohibition
• racism
• voting
• rights
• disenfranchisement

[enviops]

Of course violence is attached to the drug trade. It's in the hands of illegal motherfuckers. Alcohol used to have that same violence around it when it was in the hands of mobsters.

Drug War = Racial Genocide

[edavismookie25]

I am white bro and a ex cop and I can admit that everything you said is true. White people know it to be true they just won't admit.

[somethingdiffereable]

How can I as a citizen and victim in the war on drugs fight for the re-legalization of drugs in America?

[spraga1977]

100 % TRUTH. did you know that a Racist White man's enemy is another white man? because that other white man is the only thing between him(racist white man) and Lynching....minorities do not have the power to stop the KKK, Skinhead or similar gay activities; for example look at the quote from "onewhitefemale" below...she's obviously a wannabe racist, but she can't do anything to blacks because of people like this white man...

[scott053]

i'm sorry we are the weakest race in the world,does this white man know that blacks aren't doing well in europe or anywhere there is a melting pot!

[sausagehead10]

@edavismookie25 wow,,,well said.....

[sausagehead10]

@onewhitefemale1991 the truth hurts don't it.......

[aptex]

Why dont the NAACP and LaRaza make themselves useful and and start a huge media campaign against against the drug war since our communities are the ones disproportionately affected by it.

[TheArtistWill]

I'm surprised that the media would report on this. However, in no time they will scramble to a crime in which this conference addresses further vilifying black people for white benefit.

[Swift2001]

I'm proud to say I've been taking the newsletter and giving funds for the DPA for years now. And I'll be in the voting booth this November, voting to legalize marijuana.