Police You Can Trust: Enriching Our Imagination about What’s Possible in Criminal Justice
Last night I had a real treat in listening to the wonderful James Forman Jr. speak at the Nourse Theater with Lara Bazelon, as part of the City Arts and
Safe Injections Disappointment: A Call for SF Hamsterdam
The proposal was well thought and empirically backed: According to the principles of harm reduction, the best perspective we have on saving lives that could be claimed by drugs and
CJCJ Study: Drug Arrests Plummet, Racial Disparities Persist
I got a lot of commentary, in person and on Facebook, after my post about Ban the Box backfiring. Folks were expressing serious frustration with how an idea that seemed
Book Review: Mona Lynch’s Hard Bargains
Jeff Sessions’ career as Attorney General started exactly with what you would expect from him: a revocation of the Obama Administration’s commitment to end reliance on private prisons for domestic
Ganja in Trumpland: An Introduction
The campaigns for and against Prop. 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, revolved around the minutiae of the proposition: Will the big guns get rich at the expense of
November 2016 Ballot: Yes on 64
My colleagues and I at UC Hastings made a series of nonpartisan, informational videos on the California propositions on the November 2016 ballot. Here’s a video made by my colleague
Marijuana Legalization Proposition Filed Today!
Today, The Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform filed a proposition to legalize and tax marijuana in California. All the information on the propsition is on their website, Reform CA. The full
Congress Lifts Federal Ban on Medical Marijuana
This is huge news, friends: Congress has ended the era of medical prohibition. The L.A. Times reports: Tucked deep inside the 1,603-page federal spending measure is a provision that effectively
Blue Ribbon Committee Report on Marijuana Legalization
The Blue Ribbon Committee Report on legalization is out, and it raises a lot of interesting issues. It’s a short and interesting read. It doesn’t dwell much on the failed
Crack, Torture, and Conspiracy Theories: Why and Which Stories Matter
Conspiracies and evil machinations have been on my mind lately, for a combination of reasons. One of them is that I recently gave a post-play talk at Cutting Ball Theater‘s