{"id":56030,"date":"2013-07-19T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=56030"},"modified":"2013-07-26T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T04:23:00","slug":"the-war-on-blacks-race-and-marijuana-possession-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/07\/19\/the-war-on-blacks-race-and-marijuana-possession-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"The War on Blacks: Arrests for Marijuana Possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Americans are 3.7 times more likely than Whites to be arrested for marijuana possession, despite having equivalent use rates. \u00a0It&#8217;s a war on <em>what<\/em> again?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/06\/Screenshot_22.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-56031\" alt=\"Screenshot_2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/06\/Screenshot_22.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"489\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/04\/us\/marijuana-arrests-four-times-as-likely-for-blacks.html?hp&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ginandtacos.com\/2013\/06\/04\/the-understanding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gin and Tacos<\/a>, one of my favorite blogs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\/2013\/07\/23\/the-war-on-blacks-arrests-for-marijuana-posession\/\" target=\"_blank\">Racialicious<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Americans are 3.7 times more likely than Whites to be arrested for marijuana possession, despite having equivalent use rates. \u00a0It&#8217;s a war on what again? New York Times, via Gin and Tacos, one of my favorite blogs. Cross-posted at Racialicious. Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,252,237,3920,283,285,1760,20063,1757],"class_list":["post-56030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-healthmedicine","tag-drugs","tag-nation-united-states","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56030"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56036,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56030\/revisions\/56036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}