Tag: cannabis
Drive to Free Black Woman With Marijuana Life Sentence Exposes “Habitual Criminal” Laws
“Give a mother the chance to hold her child again.” So reads a petition, ...
Black Residents Subject to 97 Percent of Marijuana Arrests, Citations in Albany
While the state of New York decriminalized marijuana possession for personal use in 2019, ...
Eight in 10 Democrats Want Marijuana Legalization. Why Doesn’t the Party?
Seventy-eight percent of Democrat voters want it. Nearly all of the Democratic presidential candidates ...
Californian Cannabis Tax Revenues Are Used to Boost Police Budgets
How are tax revenues from legal marijuana being spent in California, the nation’s largest ...
How Washington, DC’s Lack of Statehood Hurts Black and Poor Residents
A debate over democracy and racial justice is raging on the federal government’s doorstep. ...
Why Are Black Arrest Rates for Marijuana Rising in Los Angeles?
Although California legalized marijuana over two years ago, racial disparities in arrests for the ...
Joe Biden’s Criminal Justice Reform Task Force Passes on Marijuana Legalization
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders’ “Unity Task Force”—six committees set up to shape policies ...
Thank Earlier LGBTQ+ Activists for the Marijuana Wins We Enjoy Today
This month, as we celebrate Pride, it’s important to remember our roots. These include ...
Giving Alcohol, Nicotine, Marijuana to Isolated Homeless People Is Harm Reduction
Seeking positives in current times can feel futile. But for drug policy reformers, there ...
“The Waterboarding of Drugs!”—Hasan Minhaj Blasts “Rigged” Marijuana Industry
If the marijuana industry is consolidating among large corporations, while Black and Brown people ...
