MLK Day 2026: Cannabis and Civil Rights

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MLK Day 2026: Cannabis and Civil Rights

harris-sliwoski

5 months ago

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It’s MLK Day once again.
I have written an MLK Day post on this blog for nine consecutive years. The theme of all these posts is that cannabis is a civil rights issue, and that Dr. King would have advocated for ending marijuana prohibition based on that fact.
Each year, I have demonstrated with facts (upon facts upon facts) that the War on Drugs continues in insidious ways. In, 2024, which is the most recent year that FBI data is available, law enforcement officials made nearly 190,000 arrests f...

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