GENERAL NEWS
Sacramento Program To Help Ex-Felons Break Into California’s Booming Pot Business
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Sacramento (CBS13) — City leaders think they have a new tool to fight crime and drug violence in underserved communities — cannabis.
The city plans to waive permit fees for former drug offenders looking to get into the booming pot business, but bringing more drugs into communities impacted by the “war on drugs” isn’t something everyone can swallow. |
Oakland’s marijuana equity program is hurting those it was supposed to help
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Alexis Bronson thinks the advantage Oakland’s cannabis equity program promised him is shrinking.
That’s because he doesn’t yet have space to grow his clone plants. Oakland reserved half of its cannabis permits for applicants like Bronson, a black man who’s been cultivating cannabis for more than 30 years. As a teen, Bronson sold weed to his Berkeley High School classmates, but he was hoping that Oakland’s equity program would help launch a successful, sustainable business. |
The Impact of Proposition 47 on Crime and Recidivism
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Passed by voters in November 2014, Proposition 47 brought broad and significant changes to California’s criminal justice system. Undertaken in the wake of public safety realignment in 2011, Proposition 47 reduced the penalties for certain lower-level drug and property offenses and represented a further step in prioritizing prison and jail space for higher-level offenders. The policy has sparked continued debate around two key questions:
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