Marijuana Decriminalization

In the article "Marijuana law just creates criminals" by Hakeem Jeffries is about how the marijuana law makes huge amounts of people go to jail.

In the article it says "Despite this change in law, arrests for small quantities of marijuana over the last decade have skyrocketed, with more than 400,000 people arrested and unceremoniously run through the criminal justice system." This means that over the last 10 years 400,000 people have been sent to jail. In the article it also says "A majority of these arrests happen only in certain neighborhoods. Indeed, compounding the injustice is the fact that 85% of the people arrested are African American and Latino." This means that 85% of the 400,000 people that have been sent to jail where black and Latino.

I think that people shouldn't get locked for small amounts of weed. I think that it is ridiculousness for 400,000 people to be sent to jail for a small amount of weed. Sometimes weed can be your medicine.

This make me think deeper into the topic because 85% out of 400,000 people are African American and Latino. What do other people think about people being sent to jail for small amounts weed, mostly African American's and Latino's. Do people think it's good they are arresting people for small amounts before they turn into big amounts of weed?