Reminds me of the stories during hurricane Katrina. A newspaper photo of black people, in waist deep water, were 'looting' the grocery store. In a different paper the white people were 'salvaging' from a store. I don't think I'll ever forget that.

Looked up the story by the headline. He was allegedly selling fentanyl, which is basically synthetic morphine on crack for the unfamiliar.

I get and agree with the general statement behind this post. Convictions and drug-related arrests often favor black men.

In this particular instance, maybe it's just not the best example. Weed can't harm you, and it's becoming more and more socially acceptable as well as legal in many places. Fentanyl is an epidemic, and if a school-aged child somehow managed to get a hold of any, that child could easily die.

Please don't take this for criticism of the OP, I entirely agree with the sentiment, just not the example.

EDIT: Linky for the interested.

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Mire than likely he wasn't selling weed. Not to mention he was selling around a school which is just stupid and if you do that you deserve what you get. All this feel sorry for the black man shit is getting old. Are black people treated unfairly? Absolutely but guess what so are most races. Are white people ignorant and intolerant? Definitely but again most races are. Everyone is so caught up in the racial bullshit they fail to realize it's not a racial issue it's a moral and human issue. That being said what is a racial thing is that americans and via "white" americans are the main consumermers of drugs in the world so simple lay off the drugs and others won't have a reason to sell or produce the drugs.

ALL drugs should be legal.
No distinctions.
The current "system" is rigged and racist.
Legalize everything.

Drugs should all be legal and taxed money gained to treat addition.

Comparing cannabis to other hard drugs is a mistake, cannabis is even easier on the body than alcohol, and pot is now legal in many states. Hard drugs can kill. Dealers targeting youths with such drugs ought to be dealt with harshly.

That said our drug laws are all fucked up with 70,000 people dead from overdoses in 2017 and I think this number is higher now.

If society wants to curb this disease then addicts need to be treated as sick and not criminals. They ought to be treated by a qualified physician who has sole discretion regarding over treatments.

Depends on the drugs.

I'm not cool with much of anything but Pot.

Pot doesn't make folks go off the deep end - a lot of other drugs do. That Weed was made criminal to make poor minority people go to prison? That's just ridiculous shit and that needs to change.