Some New Year highlights from Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform

It has only been a few weeks since I did a round-up of posts of note from my blogging over at Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform, but a recent post round-up is timely given the interesting discussions that the end if 2018 and start of 2019 have engendered. So:

• Effective accounting of Top 5 marijuana reform developments in 2018 (with a couple extra added for emphasis)

• An informed accounting of those states "Most Likely To Legalize Marijuana In 2019"

• Will 2019 really be the "year of weed"? How can we tell?

• Spotlighting enduring challenges making marijuana social equity programs work

• Highlighting and lamenting how state decriminalization did not diminish racially disparate enforcement of marijuana prohibition

• Flagging concerns about potential links between marijuana, mental illness and violence

• Another notable commentary about the risks of marijuana legalization (without accounting for harms of prohibition)

• "How and why have attitudes about cannabis legalization changed so much?"

• Two deep dives into health research and social justice in modern age of marijuana reform

• Washington Gov promises to pardon thousands of past marijuana offenders

• Notable review of where Colorado marijuana tax revenues are going

• "Alcohol Use and Risk of Related Problems Among Cannabis Users Is Lower Among Those With Medical Cannabis Recommendations, Though Not Due To Health"