Writing, Research & Resources
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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
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