Tag: race
Michigan’s New Marijuana-Conviction Expungement Law: Pros and Cons
On October 12, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed into law a series of ...
Breonna Taylor Travesty Must Renew Focus on the Racist Drug War
The grand jury’s decision in the Breonna Taylor case is infuriating. It was also, ...
Drug Policy Reform in Missouri: City-Level Progress, Strong Headwinds
A Missouri mayor recently announced a plan to pardon people with marijuana and psilocybin ...
Coalition: Investigate NYPD’s “Inherently Unreliable” Gang Database
A coalition of New York City advocates and scholars is calling on the city’s ...
Elizabeth Owens Was NYC’s Powerhouse HIV Organizer
A powerhouse activist organizing for people living with HIV, drug users and unhoused New ...
A Record Means Discrimination—But National Expungement Week Is Here
For Mauro Melgar, record expungement is not just an abstract policy, it’s something that ...
The LEAD Program Faces a Reckoning for Centering Police
The murder of George Floyd and the explosion of protests against police terror led ...
As New Jersey Cops Arrest 100 People Daily for Marijuana, Will the State Legalize?
Will New Jersey become next state to fully legalize marijuana? It’s one of four ...
Study: Police Violence Steals Millennia From Black Men’s Lives
The terror imposed on Black, Indigenous and other communities by the police is hard ...
Portland Charges Exemplify Struggle Over Feds’ Prosecution Encroachment
Ammon Bundy shocked the country when he took up arms against the US federal ...
