issue uh, the american civil liberties has -- sema, your group has looked really glandularl inside the district, and what did you find. we looked at ten years of data, what we found is despite michael populations despite michael usage rates black people made up 91% of more than 5,000 arrests every year from marijuana related offenses. it amounted to a selective enforcement. >> and it wasn't just the arrests but the access, it allows officers in many cases to approach potential suspects. >> that's exactly right. our efforts around decriminalization of marijuana really stemmed from reports in the community that folks were being stopped because of the odor of marry wingeing was being used as a pretext, and so this became the first racial justice oriented marijuana reform movement in the country. >> this haws brought together some unusual bedfellows. >> that's right. last week we had ten baptist ministers and their churches come forward and say in a really unprecedented move, no we don't condone marijuana use but we must end marijuana prohibition, that means reinvestment in many of the ins