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7 Nov 2020, 9:27 am
Talking to one of my favorite people about the greatness and unpredictability of democracy in the USA, I realized that it is worthwhile to put the amazingly consistent pro-reform marijuana election results of 2020 in a bit of historical context. [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 9:15 am
At the same time, some of the marijuana legalization victories on Tuesday were more than just continued momentum. [read post]
4 Nov 2020, 9:06 pm
Marijuana’s widely perceived safety and popularity is becoming so set in the public’s mind that it may be spilling over to other parts of the drug reform agenda. [read post]
4 Nov 2020, 6:49 pm
Eighteen years ago, Angel Raich and her co-plaintiffs filed this complaint that argued that federal marijuana prohibition was unconstitutional on multiple theories. [read post]
4 Nov 2020, 6:57 am
As noting in this post last night, marijuana reform ballot initiatives prevails by pretty large... [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 8:59 pm
Though it may be a bit too early to declare all the ballot initiatives winners, as of this writing just before the end of Election Day 2020, it seems as though every marijuana reform initiative and all the other drug reform initiatives on ballots today are going to pass. [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 6:25 am
I am pleased to see that the folks at Marijuana Moment have created this webpage to serve as a single tracking tool to follow all the marijuana and drug reform ballot initiatives that voters are considering today around the country. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 11:50 am
These practices are abusive toward the poor and should immediately cease.Among the recommendations:Eliminate or reform the Omnibase program suspending driver's licenses for nonpayment of fines and fees.Increase the amount of jail credit received to pay off Class C fines from $100 per day to $500 per day.Finally pass Sandra Bland legislation limiting arrests for Class C misdemeanors.Require citations in lieu of arrests for the seven categories of Class B misdemeanors (including… [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 8:26 am
Oklahoma is a study in the contradictions of criminal justice reform. [read post]
23 Oct 2020, 12:30 pm
And that rule applies even where marijuana is legal as a matter of state law. [read post]
23 Oct 2020, 12:30 pm
And that rule applies even where marijuana is legal as a matter of state law. [read post]
20 Oct 2020, 1:16 pm
In Barrett’s view, the 1996 Welfare Reform Act amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act’s public charge provision “increase[d] the bite of the public charge determination,” permitting the department to implement a more demanding standard that considers whether someone lacks self-sufficiency instead of focusing on those likely to be “primarily and permanently dependent” on government assistance, as did the previous 1999 interpretation. [read post]
19 Oct 2020, 7:16 am
Criminal Justice ReformThis summer police accountability and other criminal justice reforms were thrust front and center. [read post]
18 Oct 2020, 8:55 pm
With marijuana illegal in Alabama, Worsley, a Purple Heart recipient, was sentenced to five years in prison. [read post]
17 Oct 2020, 3:49 am
“This might be the most significant reform of the state’s criminal justice system in decades,” Justice Forward Virginia Executive Director Brad Haywood, an Arlington-based public defender, told the Daily Press. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 9:50 am
The election for Orleans Parish district attorney on Nov. 3 is a historic opportunity to shape the city’s priorities on racial disparities in sentencing, prosecutorial practices, bail reform and help end mass incarceration. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 8:47 am
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation Monday that reforms Michigan’s criminal expungement laws by allowing people with low-level marijuana convictions to have their records expunged. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 5:13 am
“Booking Jack Abramoff to speak on political reform is like hiring Bernie Madoff to host a seminar on smart and prudent investing,” one skeptic said at the time. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 2:28 pm
On Wednesday, USA Today hosted the first and only vice presidential debate of the 2020 election cycle, moderated by Susan Page. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 8:04 am
We will, on the issue of criminal justice reform, get rid of private prisons and cash bail and we will decriminalize marijuana. [read post]
