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Featured.

The Policing of Marijuana Prohibition

Op-Eds & Commentary.

It’s Finally Time to Defund the Drug War | Business Insider

Breonna Taylor Travesty Must Renew Focus on the Racist Drug War | Filter Magazine

The Real Reefer Madness Remains Our Marijuana Enforcement Policy | Chicago Tribune & New York Daily News

Pot Busts During a Pandemic? Prohibition is the Real Danger to Public Safety | AM New York

Smoking Weed Shouldn’t Sentence Someone to Death | The Grio

Pandemic Highlights Reasons to End the War on Marijuana | Albany Times-Union

Give Marijuana Tax Revenues to the Harmed | The Wall Street Journal

With Marijuana Back on the Agenda, It's Time New York Lawmakers Got Serious About Social Equity | Gotham Gazette

Reefer Madness: The Racist Roots of Marijuana Prohibition | Medium

The Catastrophe the Cannabis Industry Hasn’t Seen Coming | Medium

Policy Pieces.

New York Cannabis Policy Platform

Decriminalization vs. Legalization

Equity Organization’s Recap on New York’s 2020 ‘Cannabis Regulation and Taxation Act’

Justice, Race & Responsibility in Public Health

#WeedReads

New York Cannabis Policy Circle Notes

The Promise—and Potential Pitfalls—of New York’s Cannabis Regulation and Taxation Act

Equity Organization’s Short Guide to the 2020 Candidates’ Marijuana Policies

Equity Organization’s Recap on Connecticut S.B 16

Equity Organization’s Legislation Recaps

Equity Organization's Primer on Cannabis, Criminal Justice Reform and Social Equity

Puff, Puff, Pass Sensible Marijuana Legislation (Written for The Arena’s Five Borough Future Policy Platform)

'Equity Folks' on Twitter

’Cannabis Scribes’ on Twitter

Drug War History.

Reefer Madness: The Racist Roots of Marijuana Prohibition

Drug War History: Opium, Chinese Immigration & The Rise of the “Yellow Peril”

Drug War History: Anslinger, Armstrong and America’s Early Anti-Cannabis Crusade

Drug War History: The Myth of the Murdering, Marijuana-Smoking Mexican

Drug War History: Origins of Marihuana, the “Mexican Menace”

Biden, Enough With the Marijuana Malarkey

Justice, Race & Responsibility in Public Health

Reefer Madness: The Brief and Wondrous Life of Pot Prohibition, Pt. I

Reefer Madness: The Brief and Wondrous Life of Pot Prohibition, Pt. 2

Equity Organization’s Cannabis Industry Glossary

Equity Organization’s NYS Social Equity Talking Points

Additional Resources.

Addressing The Harms of Prohibition: What NYC Can Do To Support An Equitable Cannabis Industry | Office of the Comptroller

New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators | New York State

A Fair Approach to Marijuana | Office of the Mayor of New York City

InclusiveBase | Cannaclusive in partnership with ALMOSTCONSULTING.

The Uncovery | ACLU