How the marijuana industry is aiming to undo the harm caused by the war on drugs
The war on drugs has disproportionately punished minority groups and the less fortunate for decades. Now, with five states set to vote on legalizing and regulating the recreational use and sale of marijuana on Nov. 8, the cannabis industry is using newfound support to undo the harm caused by the drug war.
In “13th,” a recently released documentary on Netflix NFLX, +0.00% writer and director Ava DuVernay deftly argues that the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery only to pave the way for the mass incarceration of those it set free. The documentary has added to an intensifying national dialogue about the prison and justice systems in the U.S., while illustrating exactly how drug policy played a role in America’s incarceration boom.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three black men is expected to go to prison in his lifetime, a statistic...
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