Pubdate: Tue, 29 Jun 2010
Source: Oakland Tribune, The (CA)
Webpage: http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_15395193
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Author: Josh Richman, Oakland Tribune
Cited: California NAACP http://www.californianaacp.org/
Cited: Proposition 19 http://www.taxcannabis.org/
Referenced: Targeting Blacks for Marijuana http://mapinc.org/url/btjAQH1v
Referenced: Marijuana Arrests and California’s Drug War
http://mapinc.org/url/gf9Qvr0S
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topic/Tax+Cannabis+Act
NAACP SIGNS ONTO POT LEGALIZATION MEASURE
The state NAACP is expressing “unconditional support” for the
November ballot measure to legalize marijuana, continuing proponents’
framing of it as a civil rights issue.
“We are joining a growing number of medical professionals, labor
organizations, law enforcement authorities, local municipalities, and
approximately 56 percent of the public, in saying that it is time to
decriminalize the use of marijuana,” state NAACP President Alice
Huffman said in a news release Monday. “There is a strong racial
component that must be considered when we investigate how the
marijuana laws are applied to people of color.”
The measure, Control and Tax Cannabis Initiative 2010, was designated
Monday as Proposition 19.
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Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10.n499.a04.html