ITN are reporting on evidence that the American politician and civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson, has been giving to the home affairs select committee in Parliament.
Rev Jackson is reported as suggesting that cannabis enforcement has a history of being one eyed, focusing on those from poorer socio-economic groups and ignoring what happens in universities. Asked whether the police should be focusing on campuses he said:
“You can either begin to raid campuses – you go up on a couple of high-profile universities in Britain and you do a drug raid you will get a huge reaction from people of power whose children are going to be damaged by that process.
“Or you can let the same laws apply to those on the ghetto corners, have the same relaxed notion. At least give the others the same playing field.”
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