#grass gap

[ripep]

night ollie

[almediaphotography]

[chicago-reader]

Chicago decriminalized pot two years ago. Still, eight out of ten arrestees for possession are African-American. 

[funnyboneskateboarding]

Grass gap woo

[chicago-reader]

Lawrence has been arrested for marijuana possession so many times that he can't recall the exact number. His trips to court have given him a sense of how to play the system, but in this most recent instance he might have been too smart for his own good —Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky

[chicago-reader]

"If you do keep getting in trouble like this, after a while you get a record and you can't get no job," he said. "All you can do is sell drugs."

http://www.chicagoreader.com/gyrobase/cook-county-marijuana-prosecution-preckwinkle-mccarthy-alvarez/Content?oid=4410341

[chicago-reader]

"They said we looked suspicious and it's a 'high drug area,'" Devon said. "That's how they do it—they just pull over and take you down."

http://www.chicagoreader.com/gyrobase/cook-county-marijuana-prosecution-preckwinkle-mccarthy-alvarez/Content?oid=441034

[chicago-reader]

Fighting with the police? No one does that in America. I was going to the liquor store to buy something to drink and get a blunt for my weed.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/cook-county-marijuana-prosecution-preckwinkle-mccarthy-alvarez/Content?oid=4410341