An explainer on President Biden's marijuana pardon and its impact on drug incarceration and decriminalization efforts.
Despite 420 celebrations and growing support to legalize it, people of color continue to be incarcerated for marijuana and excluded from the cannabis industry.
Historically, drug policy has been written with racist intentions and fueled by hysteria over the war on drugs. This has led to racial disparities in sentencing for crack cocaine possession.
Being knowledgeable about safe drug use is vital, even if you don’t use drugs, since the stigmatization of substance use has deadly outcomes.
While reports of "government-funded crack pipes" are false, harm reduction activists support adding them to safe smoking kits.
