{"id":1235,"date":"2016-12-14T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2016-12-14T16:23:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:23:36","slug":"marijuana-reform-and-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2016\/12\/14\/marijuana-reform-and-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana reform and inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/how-to-bring-african-americans-into-marijuana-industry-w454920\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1236 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2016\/12\/Rolling-Stone-article.jpg\" alt=\"rolling-stone-article\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2016\/12\/Rolling-Stone-article.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2016\/12\/Rolling-Stone-article-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2016\/12\/Rolling-Stone-article-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I just wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/how-to-bring-african-americans-into-marijuana-industry-w454920\">this piece<\/a> for\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em> with friend and sometimes-collaborator Killer Mike. \u00a0In it, we look at the way marijuana legalization (in 28 states plus DC) has created a major industry, but also one that is leaving behind people of color. \u00a0As we note, black and Hispanic men have paid a steep price for marijuana prohibition (and the drug war generally) and so it&#8217;s particularly unjust to exclude them from the profits associated with legalization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are a number of ways to make marijuana reform more inclusive. \u00a0Here we focus on the need for states to allow people with convictions for nonviolent drug crimes to own and operate marijuana dispensaries. \u00a0In most states, they can&#8217;t&#8211;and that perpetuates the inequalities that have characterized marijuana laws for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wrote this piece for\u00a0Rolling Stone with friend and sometimes-collaborator Killer Mike. \u00a0In it, we look at the way marijuana legalization (in 28 states plus DC) has created a major industry, but also one that is leaving behind people of color. \u00a0As we note, black and Hispanic men have paid a steep price for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2016\/12\/14\/marijuana-reform-and-inequality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marijuana reform and inequality<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}