In June 2013 the ACLU released a report Marijuana in Black and White Report, which looked at Marijuana sentencing laws state by state and recommendations for sentencing reforms. Join me and Ezekiel Edwards, director of our Criminal Law Reform Project, ACLU as we discuss the report and the recently released TheUncovery tool that tracks the billions of dollars invested in the failed war on drugs. As both director and previously as staff attorney, Edwards has worked directly on cases and campaigns on a wide variety of issues, including ending over incarceration and excessive sentencing, challenges to juvenile life without parole sentences, reforms of unconstitutional police practices and drug law reform, including defending medical marijuana laws. Before joining the ACLU, Edwards was a staff attorney at the Innocence Project and leading national expert on eyewitness identification reform, a public defender at the Bronx Defenders, a Criminal Justice Fellow at the Drum Major Institute of Public Policy and an investigator at the Capital Defender Office in New York. Edwards earned his J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Public Interest Scholar, and his B.A. with honors at Vassar College. The report can be downloaded at: www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/war-marijuana-black-and-white-report The Uncovery tool is available at https://theuncovery.org/
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