Marijuana crimes have led to over 40 million arrests since Richard Nixon launched the war on drugs in the 1970s. The so-called “collateral consequences” of these arrests can prevent offenders from getting certain jobs, certain public benefits, and even student loans. Now that marijuana is being legalized in places across the country, there’s a growing movement to expunge – or wipe away - these arrests. Lou examines the pros and cons.

SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Collateral Consequences Resource Center
http://ccresourcecenter.org/

Berman on Leveraging Marijuana Reform to Enhance Expungement Practices
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...

Thompson on “Good moral characters”: How drug felons are impacted under state marijuana legalization laws
https://www.academia.edu/32705806/_Go...

ACLU’s War on Marijuana in Black and White
https://www.aclu.org/report/report-wa...

National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Convictions’ database
https://niccc.csgjusticecenter.org/

Expungement of Criminal Convictions: An Empirical Study
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...


CREDITS
Writer: Louis Foglia
Editor: Page Ellerson
Researcher: Dushyant Naresh
Supervising Producer: Allison Brown

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