Comments on This Week on Drugs
Maybe whites are more likely to smoke at home, and blacks are more likely to smoke in, say, a Metro bus shelter at 8:30am.
Ok, that's probably bullshit, but if there is racial bias, isn't there an even more noticeable gender bias? I actually do think guys are more like to smoke in stupid, risky situations.
that hard lemonade story is horrifying.
Hey Dominic,
How's your Spanish? According to this article, the European Parliment is proposing legalizing some forms of use of the coca leaf (such as in tea, or in energy bars for mountain climbers). I'm sure this is reported in English somewhere...
Yeah, what kind of "academic" doesn't know about hard lemonade?
It's very hard to tell from the graph showing pot arrests how the percentage has changed, since the earlier one doesn't have numbers. Visually, it looks like the approximate percentage of Blacks arrested has *decreased*, although the number of total arrests overall has obviously increased.
i know. if he's so "smart" and "academic" you'd think he could have outwitted that rent-a-cop. maybe by putting the bottle in a paper bag. that seems to fool even the most seasoned veterans on the force.
When I was in recovery (I'm recovered! Now I can drink) I almost bought a Hard Lemonade at a pizza joint in the U District before my friend stopped me. This guy got arrested for lack of brand awareness, essentially, which probably means he is a better parent and a deeper human being than most.
Well, if you really want to get on your high horse, you could write about the guy in Denver who got busted with .44 grams of pot (NOT a typo), despite the fact that we decrimanalized possession of less than an ounce in 1995. No link, but try rockymountainnews.com, which is where I read it this morning.
OK, decriminalized, so sue me.
@7, apparently you missed the (true) story of the dad at a Detroit Tigers game this week who bought his 7-year-old son some lemonade. Yup, you guessed it, Mike's Hard Lemonade. True story.
Errr... *looks askance at Fifty-Two-Eighty*
i'm sorry, this graph DOES NOT show racial bias.
it shows approximately the same PERCENTAGE of arrests by race. however, the number of arrests has exponentially increased.
I had to read the whole article on the hard lemonade professor but YES he is a heterosexual with a WIFE. I knew it! That type cannot be trusted to have kids. Every kid deserves a mother and father who doesn't accidentally buy him booze.
I have to echo the sentiments of @1. This does seem to be a gender bias issue. Where's the outrage?
On the other hand, the overall jump in arrest rates is outrageous enough without having to find an *ism to go along with it.
Sorry. Or maybe not. Am mostly drunk, but am home and no more armed to the teeth than usual. Which is to say a lot. But no worries, time to crash now.
what an irrelevant and useless waste of space (your yapping about this, that is).
i don't do drugs.
anybody who does drugs should be punished.
severely.
regardless of ethnicity, religious belief, political association, height, weight, hair color, brand of underwear, middle initial, etc.
@16:
How was that cup of coffee you had this morning?
Have any beers this afternoon?
What about the Aspirin/Ibuprofen/Acetominofen you took for that "sore neck" last week?
Do you take any: sleep aids, high blood-pressure meds, Insulin, Viagra, anti-diuretics, cough medicines, etc.?
Drugs are everywhere - it's just that the people who make a lot of money from the drugs they manufacture would prefer that you continue to pay for their products - and presumably ignore the myriad of side-effects they cause - rather than to consume plant-based medicinals that anyone with even a modest ability could grow FOR FREE in their own back-yard.
Probably not as potent, but then, you usually don't have to worry about "anal leakage" or liver damage either.
@17:
Don't feed trolls. It just encourages them.
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