The Social Justice Potential of Legal Cannabis Regulation

The Social Justice Potential of Legal Cannabis Regulation | Transform

At Transform we believe that a principal aim of legal cannabis regulation should be actively seeking to repair historic harms associated with ...

State cannabis reform is putting social justice front and center

The legalization framework in New York illustrates this trend. The main focus of New York's cannabis reform law, titled the Marijuana Regulation ...

Fostering Social Justice and Equity While Regulating Marijuana

Ending marijuana prohibition dramatically reduces the number of harassing stops, searches, and arrests, but much more can be done to foster equity when ...

Social Justice and Medical Equity through Federal Legalization of ...

Opposing views on federal cannabis legalization have precipitated an indeterminate situation between federal and state legislation prompting ...

Implementing social justice in the transition from illicit to legal cannabis

Background: The legalization of cannabis for adult use is being increasingly embraced in several countries and local entities. A driving force for these ...

How will cannabis legalization affect health, safety, and social equity ...

One argument made for legalizing cannabis is that it will reduce the time and effort law enforcement officials spend on cannabis offenses. This would also ...

Legalizing and Regulating Marijuana the Right Way

The Drug Policy Alliance is leading the fight to ensure marijuana reform centers health, justice, equity, and reinvestment. This includes calling on the Biden ...

"We(ed) the People of Cannabis, in Order to Form a More Equitable ...

States increasingly implement “social equity” programs as an element of new cannabis regulations; however, these programs routinely fail to achieve their ...

Cannabis Policy in the 21st Century: Mandating an Equitable Future ...

Many of these states have explicitly framed the law change as a rejection of the War on Drugs and its harms, felt disproportionately in Black and Brown ...

The Social Equity Paradigm: the Quest for Justice in Cannabis ...

In other words, federal legalization will likely break the fragile constitutionality of social equity programs that seek to give qualifying ...

A Theory for Imagining New Social Equity Approaches to Cannabis ...

States increasingly implement “social equity” programs as an element of new cannabis regulations; however, these programs routinely fail to ...

Cannabis Legalization and Social Equity - Boston University

Ahrens, Retroactive Legality: Marijuana Convictions and Restorative Justice in an Era of. Criminal Justice Reform, 110 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 379, 424 (2020); ...

Incorporating Social Justice Reform Into Legalization Laws

One of the more complex issues confronting the latest wave of states looking to legalize cannabis, including New Jersey, is how to incorporate social ...

The social justice potential of cannabis legalisation | Trust for London

During our time in New York and Boston, the potential of cannabis law reform to not only put an end to harmful prohibition but also to actively ...

Social Equity in Marijuana Regulation - American Bar Association

As the federal government now moves, slowly, toward legalization at the federal level, it is already clear that social equity will play an ...

In the Weeds - Rockefeller Institute of Government

Their experiences implementing new laws can serve as a potential roadmap for other states considering legalization. To paraphrase US Supreme Court Justice Louis ...

“Bounded Equity: The Limits of Economic Models of Social Justice in ...

As such, they encapsulate an attempt to reconcile the history of racism in the enforcement of cannabis law through its new future as a profit ...

Mapping Cannabis Social Equity - Moritz College of Law

Medical cannabis laws have now been adopted by 35 states and the District of Columbia. Yet the policies vary significantly and some policies ...

A Public Health Approach to Regulating Commercially Legalized ...

Health equity and social justice are critical components of cannabis legalization. Historically, rates of cannabis-related arrests and incarcerations have been ...

Legalization of Cannabis and the Question of Reparations

Whilst drug policy reform in the USA has begun to take tentative steps towards reparative justice on a domestic level, a still underdeveloped ...