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Author: Beckett, Katherine

Title: The Consequences and Costs of Marijuana Prohibition

Summary: This report draws on a wide range of data sources to assess the consequences and costs of enforcing criminal laws that prohibit the use of marijuana. Despite widespread and longstanding disagreement about the continuation of marijuana prohibition, the number and rate of marijuana arrests have increased significantly in the United States since the early 1990s. These arrests are not evenly distributed across the population, but are disproportionately imposed on African Americans. Our findings regarding the costs and consequences of marijuana prohibition, as well as state and local efforts to relax it.

Details: Seattle, WA: Law, Societies and Justice Program, University of Washington, 2008. 60p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 9, 2012 at: http://www.aclu-wa.org/library_files/BeckettandHerbert.pdf

Year: 2008

Country: United States

URL: http://www.aclu-wa.org/library_files/BeckettandHerbert.pdf

Shelf Number: 113851

Keywords:
Drug Enforcement
Drug Policy
Drug Prohibition
Marijuana (Washington State)