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| Source:David Moon talking to Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler. |
Source:FreeState Now
"Maryland Juice blogger David Moon asks Attorney General Doug Gansler to address huge racial disparities in marijuana arrest rates at an August 13, 2013 forum in Montgomery County."
From David Moon
Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler had the perfect answer for David Moon's question. And I'm not talking about the perfect answer in the political sense, where a slick politician gives the right answer to help them politically. I'm talking about the perfect answer in the sense Moon asked a solid question about African-Americans getting arrested more often in Maryland for marijuana offenses, than European-Americans. And Gansler's answer was and this is a paraphrase:
"If African-Americans are being arrested more simply because law enforcement is targeting them because of their race, or they're from low-income communities, then that would be wrong. But if they're being arrested more because they're more of them in possession with illegal narcotics, as opposed to other people, then there's nothing wrong about that in a racial sense."
Doug Gansler sounding like a public servant, instead of a politician, which is what we need more in Maryland and I'm sure in the rest of the country as well.
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