Editors' introduction: ending a war or just California dreamin'? -- Criminal justice costs of prohibiting marijuana in California -- Public-health considerations in the legalization debate -- The paths not (yet) taken: lower risk alternatives to full-market legalization of cannabis -- Why did Proposition 19 fail? -- Winds of change: Black opinion on legalizing marijuana -- The highs and lows of support for marijuana legalization among white Americans -- Building minority community power through legalization -- The Latino politics of Proposition 19: criminal justice and immigration -- No half-measures: Mexico's quixotic policy on California's Proposition 19 -- The "chronic" and coercion: exploring how legalizing marijuana might get the U.S. government off the backs and throats of Americans (or, not).
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