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April 20, 2024
Rounding up some new and older marijuana record relief scholarship for 4/20 reading
I tend to find extreme affinity for 420 as a kind of marijuana holiday to be a bit silly. But I am not so much of a scrooge that I will eschew a marijuana-themed post on this day. Inspired in part by a great new paper from researchers at the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center (the listed first below), I figured I woud round up an array of pieces from SSRN focused on the intersection of marijuana reform and record relief. I have only collected pieces on was able to find quickly on SSRN, so what is linked here is surely just an abridged accounting of work in this space:
"Marijuana Legalization and Record Clearing in 2022"
"Marijuana Legalization and Expungement in Early 2021"
"Erasing Evidence of Historic Injustice: The Cannabis Criminal Records Expungement Paradox"
"Ensuring Marijuana Reform Is Effective Criminal Justice Reform"
"Leveraging Marijuana Reform to Enhance Expungement Practices"
April 20, 2024 at 02:56 PM | Permalink
Comments
Articles regarding the train crash that legalization has been would be more appropriate. Or, a side by side of the promised positive impacts that were made in compared with today’s reality.
For example,
Stopping the black market-nope
Less crime-nope
Safer roads-nope
Safer pot-nope
Of course, that’s just a start.
Posted by: TarlsQtr | Apr 20, 2024 8:52:28 PM
You are always welcome, Master Tarls, to provide links to any research you want to flag.
I typically cover broader marijuana reform issues over at my Marijuana Law, Policy and Reform blog. There I have flagged big reports by Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), the leading national anti-reform group, that cover a lot of the items (and many more) that you note. Here is a post linking to want seems to be their most recent major report titled "Impact Report 2023-2024": https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/marijuana_law/2023/04/sam-provides-its-latest-accounting-of-lessons-learned-from-state-marijuana-legalization-1.html
Interestingly, that SAM report was released around 4/20 last year. I wonder if a new one is in development or if SAM is focused now more on fighting against federal rescheduling and/or the complications created by the 2018 Farm Bill.
Posted by: Doug B | Apr 21, 2024 11:01:42 AM
