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Grant Program May Incentivize More Weed Arrests Among Blacks
by Jamilah King on June 4 2013, 10:40AM
Black Americans were nearly four times more likely than whites to be arrested on charges of marijuana posession in 2010, even though the two groups smoke weed at similar rates
Topics: /NOW
Does the Road to Prison Reform Wind Through the Right Wing?
by Shani O. Hilton on July 15 2011, 9:52AM
Things have moved slowly on Capitol Hill. Now, NAACP says conservative allies may speed things up.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Drug War, Politics
Justice Revisited! Crack Sentencing Reform Applies to Old Convictions
by Shani O. Hilton on June 30 2011, 9:29AM
The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted to retroactively apply Congress’ 2010 reform to drug convictions.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Drug War
Evaluating the Drug War on Its 40th Birthday, by the Numbers
by Akiba Solomon, Stokely Baksh on June 17 2011, 11:40AM
Forty years and $1 trillion in, the war on drugs hasn’t worked—unless locking up a massive number of black and brown people was the plan all along.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Criminal Justice, Drug War
Javier Sicilia’s Poetry in Motion Against the U.S.-Mexico Drug Wars
by Debbie Nathan on June 14 2011, 8:56AM
After losing his son to drug violence, a renowned Mexican artist set out on a cross-country trek to dramatize the death that our failed, militaristic response to narcotics has spawned.
Topics: Dispatches, Drug War, Global Affairs
Dispatch From El Salvador: Obama’s Drug War Feels Eerily Familiar
by Roberto Lovato on March 31 2011, 10:56AM
Salvadorans watch uneasily as a new leftist government militarizes daily life in the same way the old right-wing one did—only now, they hunt narcos instead of communists.
Topics: Dispatches, Drug War, Global Affairs
America’s Grisly History Haunts Obama’s El Salvador Visit
by Roberto Lovato on March 25 2011, 11:18AM
Many Salvadorans remain uneasy about a U.S. government that, for years, backed a murderous dictatorship.
Topics: Global Affairs
Wars on the U.S.-Mexico Border Divide and Conquer
by Michelle Chen on March 21 2011, 10:12AM
U.S. drug and trade policies still do more to create instability than fight it.
Topics: Global Justice
Cali’s Pot Legalization Initiative Digs Into the Weeds of Race
by Julianne Hing on October 27 2010, 10:28AM
Advocates push the struggling Prop 19 by pointing to policing disparities, but even black voters aren’t listening.
Topics: 2010 Elections
Dispatch from Juarez: Fear and Happiness at War
by Debbie Nathan on October 5 2010, 9:35AM
A family describes its search for peace as tens of thousands die in a brutal drug war fed by corruption, and the U.S. black market.
Topics: Dispatches, Drug War
Dispatch from Juarez: Snapshots of Peace, on the Society Pages
by Hatty Lee on October 5 2010, 9:34AM
Amid raging violence, families and friends still find joy.
Topics: Dispatches
Obama Signs Drug Sentencing Reform Into Law
by Jamilah King on August 3 2010, 4:18PM
Reform advocates say the compromise bill is a first step to closing massive racial disparities in incarceration.
Topics: Criminal Justice
by Jamilah King on July 28 2010, 8:05PM
The legislation would reduce disparities in crack and powder cocaine sentencing, which has swelled the black prison population over the past two decades.
Topics: Criminal Justice
Push to Fix Drug Laws Before Congress’ Summer Break
by Jamilah King on July 27 2010, 9:45AM
A compromise bill awaiting House attention would reduce, but not get rid of the crack-powder cocaine disparity.
Topics: Criminal Justice
U.S. Drug War Sparks Violence in Jamaica
by Julianne Hing on May 24 2010, 1:57PM
The United States’ efforts to extradite an alleged Jamaican drug lord—said by some to be the most powerful man in the country—has set off a firestorm in the Caribbean. Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding declared a state of emergency yesterday…
Topics: Global Affairs
SFPD Chief Gascon’s Doomed, Discriminatory Drug War
by Channing Kennedy on September 4 2009, 3:45PM
When I moved to the Bay from my Missouri hometown, I landed right in the middle of San Francisco’s Tenderloin District, the area that bears the brunt of San Francisco’s long struggle with poverty. I got my fair share…
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