New York State May Legalize Recreational Pot as Early as Next Week.

 

...and the NY Times reports there is good evidence that the existing prohibition is enforced much more against people of color:

 

One 2018 analysis by The New York Times found that Hispanic people across New York City had been arrested on low-level marijuana charges at five times the rates of white people in recent years.

The imbalance was even starker for Black people, who in Manhattan were arrested at 15 times the rate of white people.

But surveys have shown that Black and white people use marijuana at similar rates. And in neighborhoods where people called to make complaints about marijuana at similar rates, arrests were almost always made at a higher rate in the area with more Black residents.

 Would those statistics be similar in Alabama, and if so, should the state decriminalize or legalize pot?