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Drugs Jesus Saves... the Pot Movement?
Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:51 PM
The campaign to legalize marijuana with Initiative 502 is trying to avoid the pitfall that felled a California legalization measure last year—pissing off African American clergy. Brendan Kiley reports in this week's paper:
One night last week, at a forum in Columbia City to discuss the war on drugs and its impacts on communities of color, something unprecedented happened—an African American pastor spoke about the perniciousness of prohibition and his support for Initiative 502, which would regulate and tax marijuana in Washington State.
- Zorn Taylor
- Alice Huffman: The head of California's NAACP came to Seattle to support legalizing marijuana.
"I'm not promoting marijuana use—no, no," said Pastor Carl Livingston of the Kingdom Christian Center. "Scripture says the body is a temple... but we need to do more to relax the drug laws that get our people caught up in the net." The crowd, almost exclusively African American, applauded enthusiastically.
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