"Marijuana prohibition just makes no sense on many, many levels -- both for pragmatic and moral reasons -- and it's time for it to end."

Andrew Carroll's a smart young man!

He's lucky, too, that he's white; and lucky that he possesses enough class privilege to move across the country as part of the Free State Project, and engage in civil disobedience, calling attention to the travesty that is our country's drug policy. Not that white guys of some means don't get targeted by the drug war, too ... it's just that, well ... their odds of faring in our racist criminal justice system are significantly better.

On January 11, he (amidst friends, fellow protesters, and video cameras) carried out a carefully planned and advertised act of civil disobedience on a train platform in Keene, NH: he possessed a small amount of marijuana. You can watch his arrest on YouTube:

(part 1)
(part 2)

He was charged with a misdemeanor and called to appear before the court again on March 3. I'll keep my eyes out for ways we can support this fellow ... but in the meantime I can't think of any better way to honor his passion and courage than to take action of our own.

Labels: Andrew Carroll, civil disobedience, marijuana