Racial Justice Requires Ending the War on Drugs

Historically, laws and policies to criminalize drug use or possession were rooted in explicit racism, and they continue to wreak havoc on certain racialized communities. We are a group of bioethicists, drug experts, legal scholars, criminal justice researchers, sociologists, psychologists, and other...

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Published in:American journal of bioethics 2021-04, Vol.21 (4), p.4-19
Main Authors: Earp, Brian D., Lewis, Jonathan, Hart, Carl L.
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