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Marijuana Legalization Has a Racial Component

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 22, 2019
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Marijuana Legalization Has a Racial Component

By Charlotte Resing Marijuana has been a key driver of mass criminalization in this country and hundreds ...

By Charlotte Resing Marijuana has been a key driver of mass criminalization in this country and hundreds of thousands of people, the majority of whom are Black or Latinx, have their lives impacted by ...

April 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sessions’ Legacy Is Full of Dangerous Successes

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 27, 2018
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Sessions’ Legacy Is Full of Dangerous Successes

By Sagiv Galai In his 636 days in office, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions secured a legacy that has ...

By Sagiv Galai In his 636 days in office, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions secured a legacy that has been described as “unprecedented” and “dark.” But Sessions’ unwavering actions against crimina ...

November 27, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Man Gets Eight Years in Mississippi For Medical Marijuana Purchased Legally in Another State

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 23, 2018
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Man Gets Eight Years in Mississippi For Medical Marijuana Purchased Legally in Another State

By Ezekiel Edwards Patrick Beadle, a 46-year-old father and musician, received an eight-year prison sente ...

By Ezekiel Edwards Patrick Beadle, a 46-year-old father and musician, received an eight-year prison sentence in Mississippi for possessing 2.89 pounds of marijuana. If his sentence stands, he would sp ...

October 23, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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The House Could Soon Give Jeff Sessions $50 Million to Wage the War on Drugs

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|Date: June 04, 2018
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The House Could Soon Give Jeff Sessions $50 Million to Wage the War on Drugs

By Kanya Bennett While the House was busy passing the divisive “empty gesture” known as the Protect and S ...

By Kanya Bennett While the House was busy passing the divisive “empty gesture” known as the Protect and Serve Act during Police Week, the Senate took up a bill that Attorney General Jeff Sessions desc ...

June 04, 2018
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Trump Administration Continues War on Pot

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 20, 2018
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Trump Administration Continues War on Pot

By Jesselyn McCurdy The majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana. The Marijuana Justice Act wil ...

By Jesselyn McCurdy The majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana. The Marijuana Justice Act will do just that. If polling is correct, pot no longer gives Americans fits. Recent Gallup polls ...

January 20, 2018
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In Florida, the Racist War on Drugs Rages On

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 17, 2017
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In Florida, the Racist War on Drugs Rages On

By Ezekiel Edwards A new report from The Sarasota-Herald Tribune has found that drug enforcement in Flori ...

By Ezekiel Edwards A new report from The Sarasota-Herald Tribune has found that drug enforcement in Florida treats Black people much more severely than white people. This follows a Tribune report in 2 ...

December 17, 2017
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Analysis: Black Imprisonment Rates Are Going Down and No One Knows Just Why

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 16, 2017
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Analysis: Black Imprisonment Rates Are Going Down and No One Knows Just Why

The Marshall Project reported on Friday that from 2000-2015 the rate of incarceration for black men fell ...

The Marshall Project reported on Friday that from 2000-2015 the rate of incarceration for black men fell by 24 percent while the rate for black women fell by 50 percent. However, during the same peri ...

December 16, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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91 Percent of Americans Support Criminal Justice Reform, ACLU Polling Finds

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 18, 2017
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91 Percent of Americans Support Criminal Justice Reform, ACLU Polling Finds

(From press release) - The American Civil Liberties Union Campaign for Smart Justice released new public ...

(From press release) - The American Civil Liberties Union Campaign for Smart Justice released new public opinion polling today that shows consensus support for criminal justice reform across the ideol ...

November 18, 2017
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Report on Marijuana Shows Why War on Drugs Targets People of Color

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 23, 2017
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Report on Marijuana Shows Why War on Drugs Targets People of Color

By Andy Hoover The war on marijuana continues to rage in Pennsylvania. Despite slow progress in loosening ...

By Andy Hoover The war on marijuana continues to rage in Pennsylvania. Despite slow progress in loosening the commonwealth’s laws on the devil’s lettuce — including a new medical cannabis products law ...

October 23, 2017
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Commentary: Large Marijuana Raids Represent an Alarming New Development

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 10, 2017
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Commentary: Large Marijuana Raids Represent an Alarming New Development

The Yolo County Sheriff’s Office has announced a series of raids against allegedly illegal marijuana grow ...

The Yolo County Sheriff’s Office has announced a series of raids against allegedly illegal marijuana growers in the last month. In the most recently reported raids, they turned their attention away f ...

October 10, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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My View: The War on Drugs Did Not Turn Out Well, So Let’s Be Careful on Approach to Opioid Abuse

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 08, 2017
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My View: The War on Drugs Did Not Turn Out Well, So Let’s Be Careful on Approach to Opioid Abuse

Supervisor Matt Rexroad offers some thoughtful commentary on opioid abuse in an op-ed in the Woodland pap ...

Supervisor Matt Rexroad offers some thoughtful commentary on opioid abuse in an op-ed in the Woodland paper on Thursday. From my perspective, opioid abuse, which has manifested itself in prescription ...

July 08, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Jeff Sessions Wants a New War on Drugs – It Won’t Work

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 24, 2017
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Jeff Sessions Wants a New War on Drugs – It Won’t Work

By David Cole and Marc Mauer Attorney General Jeff Sessions is right to be concerned about recent increas ...

By David Cole and Marc Mauer Attorney General Jeff Sessions is right to be concerned about recent increases in violent crime in some of our nation’s largest cities, as well as a tragic rise in drug ov ...

June 24, 2017
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Why Jeff Sessions Is the Best Argument for Reducing Prosecutorial Power

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|Date: May 28, 2017
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Why Jeff Sessions Is the Best Argument for Reducing Prosecutorial Power

By Taylor Pendergrass Rumors of the demise of the War on Drugs have been greatly exaggerated, but there h ...

By Taylor Pendergrass Rumors of the demise of the War on Drugs have been greatly exaggerated, but there have been some recent signs of a draw down. Both red and blue states have been taking steps to r ...

May 28, 2017
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Cal AG, Others Push Back against DOJ’s Harsh New Sentencing Guidelines

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 24, 2017
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Cal AG, Others Push Back against DOJ’s Harsh New Sentencing Guidelines

This week California Attorney General Xavier Becerra joined District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. ...

This week California Attorney General Xavier Becerra joined District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine and attorneys general from 13 other states in calling for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Se ...

May 24, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Sessions Doubles Down on the War on Drugs

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 13, 2017
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Sessions Doubles Down on the War on Drugs

By Udi Ofer Attorney General Jeff Sessions knows that the United States is the world’s leading incarcerat ...

By Udi Ofer Attorney General Jeff Sessions knows that the United States is the world’s leading incarcerator. We imprison more people than any other nation in the world. But apparently he likes that di ...

May 13, 2017
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Commentary: Bill Would Repeal Ineffective Enhancements for Prior Drug Convictions

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 24, 2016
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Commentary: Bill Would Repeal Ineffective Enhancements for Prior Drug Convictions

Advocacy groups argue that the so-called war on drugs drives mass incarceration and racial disparities in ...

Advocacy groups argue that the so-called war on drugs drives mass incarceration and racial disparities in the US judicial system, with more than 1.5 million drug arrests in the U.S. in 2014, 80 percen ...

May 24, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Despite Bipartisan Support Civil Asset Forfeiture Law Soundly Defeated

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 11, 2015
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Despite Bipartisan Support Civil Asset Forfeiture Law Soundly Defeated

SB 443 was a bill that was sponsored by Republican Assemblymember David Hadley, Senator Joel Anderson, an ...

SB 443 was a bill that was sponsored by Republican Assemblymember David Hadley, Senator Joel Anderson, and Democratic Senator Holly Mitchell. Under the current law, peace officers can seize cash and p ...

September 11, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Can Capping Prison Sentences Reduce Mass Incarceration?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 18, 2015
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Can Capping Prison Sentences Reduce Mass Incarceration?

Last week, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, in testimony before the Justice Depa ...

Last week, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, in testimony before the Justice Department’s Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections, said that they should cap sentences ...

March 18, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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