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Author:
Owusu-Bempah, Akwasi, author.
Title:
Waiting to inhale : cannabis legalization and the fight for racial justice / Akwasi Owusu-Bempah and Tahira Rehmatullah.
Publisher:
The MIT Press,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
xii, 239 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
Cannabis--United States.
Drug control--United States.
Drug traffic--United States.
Crime and race--United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
African Americans--Social conditions.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Cannabis.
Crime and race.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Drug control.
Drug traffic.
United States.
Other Authors:
Rehmatullah, Tahira, author.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Longest war -- Prohibition and racism -- The pioneers -- Missed opportunity in the north -- The cost of conviction -- Erasing the past -- Paying it back -- Room at the top -- The way forward.
Summary:
"Tells the stories of those who suffered during the worst social and political failure in the continent's history--the War on Drugs--and what we can do to right the wrongs of the past"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0262047683
9780262047685
LCCN:
2022022467
Locations:
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

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