Comments on: NAACP signs onto marijuana legalization measure

By: Richard Steeb

Richard Steeb — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:10:20 +0000

It’s long part time to confront the gross racial disparity in the enforcement of the abomination that is Cannabis prohibition. The damned law was racist in its origins and is absolutely to be repudiated. The law is immoral; repeal it. Yesterday.

Richard Paul Steeb, San Jose California

By: NAACP Joins Pot Legalization Effort | I Love Weed

NAACP Joins Pot Legalization Effort | I Love Weed — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:01:06 +0000

[...] Association for the Advancement of Colored People will release a report that it says reveals how criminalization of marijuana disproportionately harms people of color today.The release of the report comes as part of the NAACP’s endorsement of the Tax Cannabis [...]

By: Josh Richman

Josh Richman — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:08:07 +0000

The margin of error isn’t a measure of intelligence, Elwood – it’s a statistic expressing the amount of random sampling error in a survey’s results. If the total population surveyed has a certain margin of error, a subset within that population will have a larger margin.

By: Elwood

Elwood — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:18:34 +0000

“The overall poll had a 4.4 percentage point margin of error, presumably higher for the African-American subsample.”

What is the point you are trying to make? Are the blacks stoned? Are they stupid?

Explanation please.

By: Josh Richman

Josh Richman — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:31:43 +0000

The Tax Cannabis 2010 people referred me a few minutes ago to a SurveyUSA poll of 500 California adults conducted in April, which found that African Americans support marijuana legalization at a higher rate (67 percent) than the population as a whole (56 percent). The overall poll had a 4.4 percentage point margin of error, presumably higher for the African-American subsample.

By: Conservative Christian

Conservative Christian — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:31:52 +0000

Fellow readers, if you’d like to VOTE on any upcoming related opportunities on this, here are the links to REGISTER TO VOTE in a few of the states with mj laws on the ballot in November. And while we’re talking, tell people to be on the watch for the “October Surprise”, some trumped-up bad “news” about marijuana that will be intended to persuade voters at the last minute. Register to VOTE and tell your friends to not fall for the “October Surprise!”

(Remove the spaces in the w w w portions of the link and then paste the link into your browser)

ARIZONA citizens can register to vote at http://w w w .azsos.gov/election/voterregistration.htm
Registration for the November 2, 2010 election appears to be open until October 3, 2010.

CALIFORNIA citizens can register to vote at
https://w w w .sos.ca.gov/nvrc/fedform/ Just fill out the form and mail it in!
Registration for the November 2, 2010 election appears to be open until October 17, 2010.

COLRADO citizens can register to vote at http://w w w .sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/ . There’s a link in the “Voter Information” section. Registration for the November 2, 2010 election appears to be open until October 1, 2010.

GEORGIA citizens can register to vote at
http://w w w .sos.georgia.gov/elections/voter_registration/voter_reg_app.htm
Registration for the November 2, 2010 election appears to be open until October 4, 2010.

KANSAS citizens can register to vote at
https://w w w .kdor.org/voterregistration/Default.aspx
Registration for the November 2, 2010 election appears to be open until October 16 or 17, 2010.

MAINE citizens have to register in person; you can read about it at http://w w w .maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/voterguide.html
In Maine, you can apparently register all the way up until election day, so Maine citizens, let’s turn out to vote!

MICHIGAN citizens can register to vote at
http://w w w .michigan.gov/sos/0,1607,7-127-50050_50420-175878–,00.html
Registration for the November 2, 2010 election appears to be open until October 1, 2010.

MINNESOTA citizens can register to vote at http://w w w .sos.state.mn.us/index.aspx?page=204
Registration for the November 2, 2010 election appears to be open until October 10, 2010.

MONTANA citizens can check their registration status and find other information at https://app.mt.gov/voterinfo/ or get the voter registration form at http://w w w .co.yellowstone.mt.gov/elections/ (sorry, I couldn’t find a state-wide site for this. I hope this gives you a good starting point, Montana!)

NEVADA citizens can register to vote at
http://nvsos.gov/index.aspx?page=76
Registration for the November 2, 2010 election appears to be open until October 12.

NORTH CAROLINA citizens can register to vote at
http://w w w .sboe.state.nc.us/content.aspx?id=23
Registration for the November 2, 2010 election appears to be open until October 7, 2010.

OREGON citizens can register online at
http://w w w .sos.state.or.us/elections/votreg/vreg.htm
Registration for the November 2, 2010 election appears to be open until October 16.

SOUTH DAKOTA citizens can get the voter registration form online at
http://w w w .sdsos.gov/electionsvoteregistration/registrationvoting.shtm
Registration for the November 2, 2010 election appears to be open until October 10.

WASHINGTON citizens can register online here. Registration for the November 2, 2010 election appears to be open until October 4, 2010.

Other states: Google your State name and the phrase “voter registration” to find out how to REGISTER TODAY so you can VOTE in NOVEMBER

I may be a day or two off on some of the registration dates, so (1) get this done early and (2) even if you get this info on or after the dates I’ve listed, go ahead and try to register. This is our chance to make a difference!

Go online right now and get this one behind you, and you can vote in November!

Safer than aspirin; less addictive than coffee. Register. Vote. Change things.

By: wayneflo

wayneflo — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:19:14 +0000

@Allen Payton

Cannabis should be legalized because it’s SAFER than alcohol.

Every objective study concludes it is far less toxic and far less intoxicating. Alcohol is also physically addictive, cannabis is not.

Alcohol use fuels aggressive behavior and violence, including domestic abuse, assaults and vandalism. Cannabis use does not.

Legalizing cannabis will severely shrink the violent cartels and street gangs by wiping out over 60% of their profit. It will take cannabis out of the hands of criminals and put it in a well-regulated market only available to adults.

Cannabis sales will generate $1.4B/yr in taxes, and allow law enforcement to focus on real crime. The fruitless drug war has wasted $1 trillion.

Cannabis is SAFER than alcohol! Let people choose the SAFER drug for relaxation and recreation.

By: Allen Payton

Allen Payton — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:10:31 +0000

As a member of the East County Branch of the NAACP, I want to say this is a big mistake. With the negative impacts from marijuana on a person’s education this does nothing to advance the cause of African-Americans.
If it’s an equal application of the marijuana laws, then fine, let’s fight that – that’s a equal justice issue. But to legalize its use is not the solution.

By: Elwood

Elwood — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:44:03 +0000

Re: #6:

Do you have any figures on how many blacks are imprisoned for crack cocaine offenses and how many for weed?

By: M

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:36:22 +0000

This is a courageous position by a visionary leader.

There are more African Americans under correctional control today — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.

Get Informed. Do the right thing like the CA NAACP:

http://blog.norml.org/2010/03/10/the-new-jim-crow-how-the-war-on-drugs-gave-birth-to-a-permanent-american-undercaste/