Patrick Kennedy....why so confused?

[RainDog]

51. So, Jim Crow is better, huh?

disenfranchising African American voters at rates substantially above the white middle and upper class young adults that Paddy knows, putting kids in prison because they can't afford to buy rehab rather than jail, creating ONCE AGAIN the LIE that African American males are criminals while white Wall Street assholes have COCAINE delivered to their offices...

yeah, that's the solution.

We can regulate cannabis to keep it like a craft beer industry for recreational use and tobacco companies can plant fields of hemp for insulation or medical cannabis for things like Sativex, which will be on the market soon (I predicted by 2013 two years ago).

I'm sorry, but I DON'T BUY THE BULLSHIT from the growers who want to keep it illegal or the alcohol industry, that lobbies to keep it illegal, or propaganda-sayers like Kennedy who thinks his experience WITH A LEGAL SUBSTANCE - a pharma drug, gives him the authority to speak about the millions who use cannabis with no harmful effects - other than the effect prohibition creates.

The East coast is WAAAY out of the loop and far behind on this issue. They need to play catch up. But the east coast has far more African Americans than the west, so, again, since this law has been used to target African Americans, maybe that's why.