Amy Goodman
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ACLU & HRW Call to Decriminalize Drug Use & Possession After Documenting Arrests Every 25 Seconds
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October 14, 2016
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12:05Now PlayingA new report on the devastating harm of policies that criminalize the personal use and possession of drugs finds that in 2015 police booked more people for smalltime marijuana charges than for murder, nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault combined. The report also showed AfricanAmerican adults are more than twoandahalf times as likely as white adults to be arrested for drug possession despite comparable rates of drug usage. This comes as four states have legalized recreational marijuana use and five more will vote to do the same next month. Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union released the findings Wednesday with a call for states and the federal government to decriminalize lowlevel drug offenses. We speak with Tess Borden, author of the report "Every 25 SecondsThe Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States."
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