Reefer, Managed: Cannabis and Mass Incarceration

In this Friday, March 22, 2019 photo, a marijuana plant is visible at Compassionate Care Foundation's medical marijuana dispensary in Egg Harbor Township, N.J.

Paul Butler, former federal prosecutor, professor of Law at Georgetown, and author of Let’s Get Free : A Hip Hop Theory of Justice and Chokehold: Policing Black Men (The New Press, 2017) discusses the link between pot and mass incarceration.