12 weeks from today

 
I'm very glad to know that the NAACP has now endorsed Measure 80.  This should not be too surprising to anyone who knows how much more likely an African American is to be arrested for a marijuana offense.  The Drug War has unjustly torn apart families since it began, and African Americans are disproportionately stopped and searched and generally hassled in the hopes of finding a reason to make an arrest.      

Suffice it to say that the Blogger program is giving me trouble this evening.  It's not letting me edit properly, and I want to stick by my 10 minutes a night rule, so here are my main thoughts for the day: by voting Yes on Measure 80, we will all be helping to end the persistently racist tendencies of too many law enforcement policies and procedures.  Let's move forward and begin to live up to our ideals better than we have in the past.