The Rev. Edwin Sanders says churches should help heal the sick, feed the hungry and set prisoners free…
Sanders said the so-called war on drugs has failed for two reasons. First, he said, addiction to drugs is a disease, not a crime…
Second, Sanders said, the laws on drug use aren’t enforced fairly. A report from the ACLU of Tennessee released Thursday showed that black Tennesseans are arrested on marijuana possession charges four times as often as whites. About 45 percent of those arrested for marijuana-related crimes are black, even though blacks make up about 17 percent of the state’s population… (more)
EDITOR: From our personal experience, we experienced winning over the Black Clergy as been perhaps the most formidable challenge to bring about drug policy reform. Talk about “identifying with the aggressor.” Ever so gradually, they came to understand that the War on Drugs was a war on their young men… “Jim Crow” in another garb.
