"Pot in Black & White"
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airs: Sunday July 14 at 9:30 am and 7 pm
and Tuesday July 16 at 11:30 pm
This Week on Due Process
Marijuana. Blacks and whites smoke it, studies show, in roughly equal numbers. Then why are African Americans nearly four times more likely to be busted?
Is it racism? Police targeting? Conspiracy? And does the answer to such glaring discrepancy lie not in raising the number of white arrests, but in legalizing pot for everyone? It's already been done in Colorado and Washington State.
A new ACLU national study raises disturbing questions about race, marijuana - and justice. And it's the impetus for this edition of Due Process. Our studio guests are ACLU-NJ Executive Director Udi Ofer, former Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi and Criminal Defense Attorney Alan Bowman.
We hope you'll watch this most provocative discussion this Sunday on NJTV - and that you'll visit our website or our Facebook page to tell us what you think.
Sandy and Raymond.
Due Process - winner of 21 New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmys - airs on Thirteen Saturday mornings at 9:30, and on NJTV on Sundays at 9:30am and 7:00pm and Tuesday nights at 11:30.
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