Pot Polls

by Patrick Appel

Thoreau is saddened by them:

Regarding the marijuana ballot measure, it appears that support is strong among whites and opposition is strong among minorities. At first this surprised me, given that minority communities are theones most impacted by the insanity of drug enforcement.  On the otherhand, that sort of thing cuts both ways.  If prohibition exacerbatesthe pathologies associated with drug abuse, then the least advantagedcommunities that are impacted the most by...