All of this just because #VictimlessCrimes like #DrugPossession, #DrugTrafficking and #DrugTrade are on the books...

There is no rational reason why #alcohol or #tobacco are legal yet #cannabis and #heroin ain't.

It's just done to #criminalize marginalized people.
https://youtu.be/wjegMPe42sI?t=529

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #DrugPossession

"So herein lies the paradox and predicament of young black men labeled criminals. A war has been declared on them, and they have been rounded up for engaging in precisely the same crimes that go largely ignored in middle-and upper-class white communities—possession."

Michelle Alexander, in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness