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Contrary to what you may have heard, marijuana possession enforcement is down 30% under President Obama
Posts Tagged ‘marijuana legalization’
June 4th, 2013
Category: Drug Policy
It was an enjoyable experience to work with Ian Urbina and Ezekiel Edwards in examining ACLU data on the difference between the Black and White arrest rate for marijuana possession. We had somewhat different takes on the data, but certainly all want there to be equality under the law, which is currently not the case [...]
May 20th, 2013
Bill Keller on mj legalization: Can we get to “orderly market” without passing through “way too stoned”?
April 29th, 2013
Category: Drug Policy
With Take Two on KPCC. A pretty reasonable discussion, I thought.
November 15th, 2012
Category: Drug Policy, Political Science
Our friends at Washington Monthly have provided a vivid example of a piquant feature of drug legalization debates. As a group, the editors and writers at Washington Monthly have been broadly supportive of the proposition that we should regulate marijuana like alcohol. Yet the current issue carries Tim Heffernan’s expose on the monopolistic, addiction-generating, profit-grubbing [...]
October 30th, 2012
Category: Drug Policy
In one of the last Newsweek magazine cover stories we will ever see, Tony Dukoupil offers a fascinating inside view of the business people who are making millions by selling quasi-legal marijuana. Exactly as predicted by yours truly, they are not long-haired hippies in tie-dye T-shirts but hard nosed, profit-focused, stylishly attired businessmen who make [...]
October 4th, 2012
Category: Drug Policy
Mark Kleiman has offered some intriguing observations (here and here) regarding what may happen if a state legalizes marijuana this November. He forecasts the responses of state government, federal government and legalization activists, all of which is fine as far as it goes, but he leaves out an important detail: Legalization would create a new [...]
September 11th, 2012
Category: Drug Policy, Health and Medicine
With marijuana, as with so many other things, where one sits influences where one stands. Relative to the U.S. population as a whole, people who write about public policy regarding marijuana (e.g., college professors, newspaper editors, drug policy analysts, Internet users and drug legalization activists) are disproportionately college educated and middle to upper-middle class. They [...]
August 6th, 2012
Category: Drug Policy
In years of studying, designing and implementing drug policies, I have spent perhaps a total of one hour thinking about industrial hemp (i.e., non-intoxicating cannabis grown for its fiber to make paper, cordage, fabric etc.). That may have been too much, or so I have been persuaded by reading the invaluable discussion of hemp by [...]
July 20th, 2012
Category: Drug Policy
Do the Single Convention and its successors make marijuana legalization a pipe dream? Kevin thinks so, but I doubt it.