Nine white activists blocked the entrance of the NYPD headquarters at One Police Plaza, on Saturday, May 12, drawing attention to the city's ever-increasing, racially-skewed marijuana possession arrests. After plopping themselves down to block the entrance, with banners unfurled and 200 supporters chanting, "No...
(20) Comments | Posted April 24, 2012 | 10:54 AM
The criticisms being directed at Girls are misguided. The much hyped new HBO show created by Lena Dunham, and co-produced by Judd Apatow, focuses on the lives of upper class, twenty-something, white girls living in New York City. That Girls was promoted as representing a generation is the fault of...
(145) Comments | Posted June 17, 2011 | 10:17 PM
"Call off The Drug War" says former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in an op-ed for the New York Times. His article is released on the 40th anniversary of the day that President Nixon declared America in a "war on drugs."
Carter aligns himself with a...
(9) Comments | Posted May 25, 2011 | 7:15 PM
Community leaders, drug policy reform advocates and two members of the City Council gave a satirical award to Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday for making New York City the "Marijuana Arrest Capitol Of The World."
The rally in front of Bloomberg's...
(32) Comments | Posted May 19, 2011 | 4:53 PM
Two New York State legislators have proposed a simple, effective legislative fix to New York City's 15-year marijuana arrest craze. Senator Mark Grisanti, a white Republican from Buffalo, and Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, a black Democrat from Brooklyn, have together offered legislation that would strike from the law the...
(2) Comments | Posted March 15, 2011 | 6:18 PM
In 2010 New York City spent $75 million arresting people for possessing small amounts of marijuana.
Three members of the New York City Council joined advocates and community members on the steps of City Hall today at a press conference organized by the Drug Policy Alliance and the Institute...
(61) Comments | Posted November 1, 2010 | 11:41 AM
I'm not asking you to condone marijuana. I'm asking you to accept the fact that arresting people for marijuana has not decreased the use of marijuana.
If you worry about young people using marijuana, growing more rebellious, and becoming lost -- the fact that policing marijuana has failed will...
(84) Comments | Posted October 27, 2010 | 5:45 PM
On September 30, one month before California votes to make recreational use of marijuana legal for adults, Governor Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 1449 into law. The new law downgrades the possession of an ounce or less marijuana from a misdemeanor to an infraction.
This development was rightfully...
(11) Comments | Posted May 14, 2012 | 4:06 PM