Revolution #246, September 25, 2011
References for Marijuana Laws in a World of Oppression and Discrimination
Race to Incarcerate, Marc Mauer, 2006
Smoke and Horrors, Charles Blow, New York Times, October 22, 2010
“Marijuana Arrest Crusade: Racial Bias and Police Policy in New York City, 1997-2007,” Harry G. Levine, Deborah Peterson Small, New York Civil Liberties Union, April 2008
“New York's Stop-and-Frisk Database and Privacy,” Electronic Privacy Information Center
“Report: Minorities Much More Likely to Be Frisked by NYPD,” WNYC News, May 13, 2010
“Black Men's Jail Time Hits Entire Communities,” NPR.org, August 23, 2010
Whites Smoke Pot, but Blacks Are Arrested, Jim Dwyer, New York Times, December 22, 2009
“Escape From New York,” Charles M. Blow, New York Times, March 18, 2011
“Why New York City is the Marijuana Arrest Capital of the World,” Ethan Nadelmann, Change.org, July 19, 2010
“Pot acceptable? Not for young and nonwhite” Stephen Gutwillig, California state director, Drug Policy Alliance, Special to CNN, November 5, 2009
“All of Us Use Drugs, but Only Some of Us Go to Jail!” Tony Newman, Communications Director, Drug Policy Alliance, Huffington Post, May 20, 2010
“Arresting Blacks for Marijuana in California: Possession Arrests in 25 Cities, 2006-08,” Harry G. Levine, Jon B. Gettman, Loren Siegel, Drug Policy Alliance, LA, October 2010.
“Targeting Blacks for Marijuana: Possession Arrests of African Americans in California, 2004-08,” Harry G. Levine, Jon B. Gettman, Loren Siegel, Drug Policy Alliance, LA, June 2010
“Arresting Latinos for Marijuana in California: Possession Arrests in 33 Cities, 2006-08,” Harry G. Levine, Jon B. Gettman, Loren Siegel, Drug Policy Alliance, LA, October 2010
“Truth in Sentencing in State Prisons,” Paula M. Ditton, Doris James Wilson, U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, January 1999.
“Prisoners in 2007,” William J. Sabol, Ph.D., Heather C. West, December 11, 2008, U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
“Prisoners in 2009,” William J. Sabol, Ph.D., Heather C. West, December 21, 2010, U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
“Gender and Justice: Women, Drugs, and Sentencing Policy,” Marc Mauer, Cathy Potler, Richard Wolf, Sentencing Project, November 1999
"The Punitiveness Report--Hard Hit: The Growth in the Imprisonment of Women, 1997-2004," Institute on Women and Criminal Justice, May 2006
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