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It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.

Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

We're criminalizing economic inability to stay out of the system. Women get penalized more than men for the same crime; blacks get penalized more than whites for the same crime. We need to bring out more into the light, because it's not fair... I applaud Colin Kaepernick for speaking out.