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    Editorial: Can Los Angeles repair the damage done by the war on marijuana?

    by Los Angeles Times Nov 07, 2017 3 minutes

    An editorial from the Los Angeles Times:

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    Make no mistake, the war on marijuana has not been colorblind. Despite national surveys showing that white people and black people use marijuana at approximately the same rates, blacks have over the years been nearly four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than whites.

    That disparity is as true in Los Angeles as it is elsewhere in the country. African Americans comprise less than 10 percent of the

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