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Councilman Jim Kenney says it takes about 17,000 hours of police work annually in Philly to process those arrested with less than an ounce of weed and it disproportionately affects minorities.
African Americans are arrested for marijuana possession offenses in Minnesota at a rate that is more than six-times higher than that of Caucasians, according to an analysis of 2011 FBI arrest data released today by the nonpartisan think-tank Minnesota 2020 and commissioned in part by Minnesota NORML.
The Smarter Sentencing Act (House Resolution 3382/Senate Bill 1410) now has 26 cosponsors, including 10 Republicans. The Senate version of the bill...
Washington, DC, is set to decriminalize small-time marijuana possession after the city council Tuesday gave final approval to a decriminalization bill.
Members of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators recently resolved at their Annual Legislative Conference in favor of decriminalizing marijuana...
I had known that New York, at one point, was an epicenter for cannabis culture. What I didn't know was that cannabis grew, literally, all over New York City in neighborhood lots.
In an interview with CNN Friday, President Obama expanded on his remarks regarding marijuana made in a recent New Yorker interview. In that latter interview,
In a profile published online over the weekend in New Yorker magazine, President Barack Obama continued his softening towards marijuana legalization...
I have always been interested in how drugs, specifically cannabis, have been viewed through the lens of religious reconciliation.
A story broke earlier this month about a New York City school teacher named Alberto Willmore arrested for smoking weed. The only problem? Willmore was...
Here's the top 10 items from NORML that shaped cannabis policy in 2013, from no association between lung cancer and smoking weed to Uruguay legalizing...
Newark Mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker has just begun testing a solution to the racial problems plaguing law enforcement’s use of stop-and-frisk...
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday a comprehensive federal sentencing reform package with a strong emphasis on drug sentencing.
In the remedies opinion, Scheindlin noted that she wanted "to be very clear: I am not ordering an end to the practice of stop and frisk."
We at Weedist have covered a great deal about Eric Holder, and I was quite surprised that he is actually talking about something sensible and decent.
This mind-set has fueled a brutal war on drugs, a get-tough movement and a prison-building boom unprecedented in world history." -Michelle Alexander, Time
ANIMAL has a policy to not use “marijuana.” Cannabis? Sure. Weed? Definitely. Marijuana, though? Almost never. NPR has a good article explaining why.
Michelle Alexander notes, she used Race to Incarcerate as an organizing tool, sending copies to people who could benefit from its policy analysis.
