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Here be statistics from a recent report - The War on Marijuana in Black and White  from the ACLU. Percentage of Whites vs Blacks that have used Marijuana in the last 12 months - roughly the same, with Blacks taking a slight lead. Percentage of Whites vs Blacks that have  never  used Marijuana - roughly the same, with Blacks taking a slight lead again. Arrest rate,  per 100,000  for marijuana possession -  NOT  roughly the same. Not even close. Arrest rates  per 100,000  by region - yup, its nationwide. Break the same damn thing down by county -  virtually all the counties  have Blacks arrested 3X more than whites, with a whole bunch in the " greater than 7 " category. Is this race-neutral justice? Screw "race-neutral" - is this  JUSTICE ? No it isn't - and Ta-Nehisi Coates puts it best The years between 2000 and 2010 do not simply constitute a war on marijuana, but a war on black people who use mariju...

It turns out that Auburn has been learning from Manhattan, at least when it comes to Flash Mobs . More to the point, the Placer County Courthouse in Auburn managed to auto-flash-mob itself, when a computer glitch mistakenly sent out Jury Duty notices to 1200 people in the area, all of whom (tried to) show up by 8am. D'you know how many cars that is?  A quarter mile backup worth, as it turns out. CBS Local has the details All because people were responding to their civic duties, showing up by 8 a.m. for jury duty that wasn’t supposed to happen. “I didn’t realize that all that traffic was going to courthouse,” Ralph said. “It was insane,” said Kimberly Foss, “and there were so many cars.” It turns out it was all caused by a computer glitch. “The alert failed to notify us yesterday afternoon, so the clerk failed to update the system,” assistant court executive officer Geoff Brandt said. The system then goes into default mode, and we were unaware the default mode was to...