Something's in the air : race, crime, and the legalization of marijuana / edited by Katherine Tate, James Lance Taylor, and Mark Q. Sawyer.

Something's in the air : race, crime, and the legalization of marijuana / edited by Katherine Tate, James Lance Taylor, and Mark Q. Sawyer.

"America's drug laws have always exerted an unequal and unfair toll on Blacks and Latinos, who are arrested more often than Whites for the possession of illegal drugs and given harsher sentences. In this volume, contributors ask how would marijuana legalization affect communities of color?...

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Contributors: Tate, Katherine (Editor), Taylor, James Lance (Editor), Sawyer, Mark Q., 1972- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
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Drug legalization > Social aspects > United States.
Marijuana > United States.
African Americans > Drug use.
Hispanic Americans > Drug use.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Minorities > United States > Social conditions.
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