ACLU: Blacks busted for marijuana at much higher rates than whites

Robert MacCoun quoted in CNN, June 6, 2013

Robert MacCoun, professor of public policy and law at the University of California at Berkeley, says arrests don’t prevent marijuana use. “These arrests rarely result in prosecution, and there is no basis for believing this is a deterrent,” he told CNN. “It’s hard to see the purpose being served. The only use I can see is putting certain people, and in this case young black men, on notice. When you look at the statistical pattern, it’s hard not to see this as racial profiling.”