It is sickening and sad to see so many people locked up each year for possession, cultivation, and sales of cannabis. The better part of 1,000,000 people are affected each year by this crime against the public. When you think about all the deaths caused by botched DEA raids, law enforcement in general, and people who die from prison conditions, it becomes a crime against humanity. 

     We, the cannabis consumers and supporters need to change the way the public perceives the laws against us. It needs to be made into exactly what it is, a major social dilemma. The only way to do this is to look at prohibition of cannabis for exactly what it is, discrimination.

     While some of you may disagree, by the end of this, you will no longer have an argument to disagree. Yes cannabis prohibition makes cannabis illegal, but what makes it illegal is exactly what makes arresting people discrimination. 

     When a cop finds cannabis on an individual they immediately call that individual a criminal. There are none of the persons characteristics taken into consideration, just a label that has been placed upon said person. It does not matter if that person is a humanitarian who feeds the poor, an old man such as Willie Nelson, or a parent who is going to lose their child because this label has been placed upon them. This label, however, is a prejudice thought. When someone is stereotyped, prejudice is committed against that person. When someone who has cannabis on them is stereotyped as a criminal because of the plant rather than their character, this person is seen in a prejudice view. 

     Once the police touches the person for this plant, enforcing the prejudice idea that everyone who possesses cannabis is a criminal, they have discriminated against that person. This is because discrimination is taking action based on a prejudice thought of an individual or group. When a person is put in jail, even a holding cell, action taken against a prejudice thought has been enforced, which is then again discrimination. When a person goes in front of a judge and that judge sentences a person based upon no real criminal activity, but possession, cultivation, or sales of a plant, that is once again action taken on a prejudice thought... discrimination.

     So I urge you all here on 420friendsonline to inform everyone you know, everyone you smoke with, the entire public of this fact. We can no longer stand for discrimination within our society. So please, everybody who reads this, start revealing the discrimination behind cannabis prohibition. Reveal it to everyone so the idea goes mainstream. If this problem is seen for exactly what it is, we will have a much smoother time changing these unjust laws.