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Citing high black arrests, NAACP endorses pot legalization

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Joined by several other African-American leaders, including Aubry Stone, president of the California Black Chamber of Commerce, and Neil Franklin of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), Alice Huffman, president of the California chapter of NAACP explains why the organization is backing the legalization of marijuana in California -- marijuana laws are a means of criminalizing young black men.

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