In the mid-1960s, when author, historian, and political economist Gar Alperovitz [6] was working as legislative director for Senator Gaylord Nelson, change was in the air.
As the world is watching the impact of marijuana legalization measures in Uruguay and several American states, the United Nations warns that the widespread public perception that pot is a low-risk drug is dangerously mistaken.

Protesters who for over a year have railed against the “extremist” policies of the North Carolina legislature are now bringing their fight to the voting booth as the movement known as Moral Mondays launched a bold initiative to get-out-the-vote this week.
The idea of capitalism as an expression of economic freedom that also secures moral and political freedom of thought, or the notion that “free-market” economies are guided…

The Republican primary in Mississippi was won by the candidate with black support because African-American voters were smart enough to intervene. They should do every time.
On June 26, people in over 100 cities in at least 46 countries will speak out against the war on drugs.
A CBS poll taken in early January of this year concluded that 86 percent of the nation now supports safe access to cannabis at a doctor’s discretion…

Marijuana is the single largest agricultural commodity in California, and it is the primary vehicle for the war on drugs’ racialized arrest…

Charles Steele/SCLC and Bail Coalition Lobby to Gut Bail Reform Bill in New Jersey IBW Calls Behavior “Shameful” New York–June 25…Today the New York based Institute of the Black…

Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered states to stop sending youth offenders to prison for the the rest of their lives without the possibility of parole.