Reports News Articles Studies & Journal Articles NACDL Champion Articles Media Letters & Testimony Organizational Resources Drug Overdose Homicide Resources
Reports
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State of Cannabis Justice Report, Last Prisoner Project, October 2023.
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Toolkit: Protecting Our Communities: All Neighborhoods Need Health-Center Approaches to be Safe and Just, Drug Policy Alliance, September 2023.
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Factsheet: Facts about Overdose Prevent Centers, Drug Policy Alliance, June 2023.
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Decriminalization of drug possession in Oregon: Analysis and early lessons, Kellen Russoniello, Sheila Vakharia, Jules Netherland, et al., Drug Science, Policy and Law, April 2023.
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Marijuana Legalization and Expungement in Early 2021, Collateral Consequences Resource Center, May 2021.
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Ending the War on Drugs in Travis County: How Low-Level Drug Possession Arrests are Harmful and Ineffective, Grassroots Leadership, Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, Texas Harm Reduction Alliance, UT Law Civil Rights Clinic, February 2020.
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Ending the Drug War, Shaping the Future, Drug Policy Alliance, 2019.
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Marijuana Policy Progress Report: 2019 Legislative Update, Marijuana Policy Project, 2019.
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Next Steps in Federal Corrections Reform: Implementing and Building on the First Step Act, Urban Institute, May 2019.
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A Guide to Resentencing & Reclassification, Drug Policy Alliance, March 2018.
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It’s Time for the U.S. to Decriminalize Drug Use and Possession, Drug Policy Alliance, 2017.
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A Brief History of the Drug War, Drug Policy Alliance, 2016.
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Marijuana Facts, Drug Policy Alliance, 2016.
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Second Chances: The Economic and Social Benefits of Expanding Drug Diversion Programs in Harris County, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, September 2015.
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The Path Forward: Rethinking Federal Marijuana Policy, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, November 2014.
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Collateral Costs: Racial Disparities and Injustice in Minnesota’s Marijuana Laws, Nicole Simms, Minnesota 2020, April 2014.
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Drug War Détente? A Review of State-level Drug Law Reform, 2009-2013, Vera Institute of Justice, April 2014.
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One Million Police Hours, Drug Policy Institute, March 2013.
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Playbook for Change? States Reconsider Mandatory Sentences, Vera Institute of Justice, February 2014.
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The War on Marijuana in Black and White: Billions of Dollars Wasted on Racially Biased Arrests, ACLU, June 2013.
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Time Served: The High Cost, Low Return of Longer Prison Terms, The Pew Center on the Statutes, June 2012.
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Drug Courts Are Not the Answer: Toward a Health-Centered Approach to Drug Use, Drug Policy Alliance, March 2011.
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Addicted to Courts: How a Growing Dependence on Drug Courts Impacts People and Communities, Justice Policy Institute, March 2011.
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Targeting Blacks for Marijuana: Possession Arrests of African Americans in California, 2004-2008, Drug Policy Alliance, June 2010.
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The Rockefeller Drug Laws: Unjust, Irrational, Ineffective, ACLU, 2009.
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Marijuana Arrests and California’s Drug War: A Report to the California Legislature, Mike Males and Daniel Macallair, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, October 2009.
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Drug Law Reform Provisions in NYS Budget Bill, New York Civil Liberties Union, 2009.
News Articles
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The real reefer madness remains our marijuana enforcement policy, Natalie Pipillion, Daily News, March 2020.
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Naloxone saves lives. Tainting it with criminality will mean people die. Kimberly Chernoby and Nicholas Terry, The Washington Post, March 2020.
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Complex Marijuana Laws Leave Lawyers in Legal Limbo, Steven Cash, Law.com, March 2020.
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Four-in-ten U.S. drug arrests in 2018 were marijuana offenses – mostly possession, John Gramlich, Pew Research Center, January 2020.
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Marijuana Nation, CBS.
Studies & Journal Articles
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Racial Disparities in Federal Sentencing: Evidence From Drug Mandatory Minimums, Cody Tuttle, University of Maryland, 2019.
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Notes from the Defense Bar: Fighting for Reform on Three Fronts During the Obama Administration, Kyle O’Dowd, Shana-Tara Regon, and Michael Price, Federal Sentencing Reporter, December 2010.
NACDL Champion Articles
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The Basic Steps a Criminal Defender Must Take to Understand the Adverse Immigration Consequences of Drug Offenses, April 2018.
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From the President: Coming and Going – Racial Disparity in the Punishment and Profit of Marijuana, December 2017.
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From the President: Crack, Opioids, and the Modest Reparation of Clemency, November 2017.
Media
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Understanding and Challenging the Drug: Chemistry and Toxicology, 2019.
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Reform in the Most Incarcerated State, Pew, September 2017.
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Jay Z – The War on Drugs: From Prohibition to Gold Rush, Drug Policy Alliance, 2016.
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Advocacy Call on Medical and Personal Use Marijuana, February 2013.
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The Criminal Docket Episode 6: The Failed Drug War, April 2012.
Organizational Resources
- Drug Policy Alliance
- Stop the Drug War
- FAMM
- Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform Blog
- National Association of Drug Court Professionals
- National Cannabis Industry Association
- The RAND Corporation's Drug Policy Research Center
