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Aside first, nope. Never really interested in any chemical entertainment. When I was clubbing more frequently I'd smoke a couple cloves with all the cool kids but didn't even really start drinking out till much much later. Pro-legalization though, for medical or recreational or whatever purposes. People should be able to use whatever drugs they want, just not while performing certain tasks (driving, operating machinery, etc.)
Selective enforcement is no good - the laws are supposed to apply to everyone equally. If the sentencing guide says to add or subtract penalties based on ethnicity it would be very clearly a systemic issue. Maybe this is semantics... Police officers picking who to search, judges handing out harsher sentences... I see those as the actions of individual assholes and not policy. They can and should be replaced at a minimum. This can happen with better and more rigid oversight, but that comes with a cost. The more I look at it, the more racial inequality and wealth inequality look like a "chicken and the egg" kind of problem. We can both see people are downtrodden, I just have a different take on what puts and keeps them there.
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