Cannabis

Reefer, Managed: Cannabis and Mass Incarceration

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 9, 2019

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.

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