Marijuana Prohibition And "Racism Without Racists"

The NAACP endorsed California's marijuana legalization bill last week. A report on marijuana arrests among minorities explains their rationale:

Young blacks and Latinos use marijuana at lower rates than youngwhites. So why are police in California arresting young blacks andLatinos at higher rates than young whites, and at greater numbersthan their percentages of the population? Based on our studies ofpolicing in New York and other cities, we do not think the arrestsare mostly a result of...