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Racial Justice Requires Ending the War on Drugs

American journal of bioethics, 2021-04, Vol.21 (4), p.4 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Racial Justice Requires Ending the War on Drugs
Author: Earp, Brian D ; Lewis, Jonathan ; Hart, Carl L
Subjects: Ethicists ; Humans ; Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Racism ; Substance-Related Disorders
Is Part Of: American journal of bioethics, 2021-04, Vol.21 (4), p.4
Description: Historically, laws and policies to criminalize drug use or possession were rooted in explicit racism, and they continue to wreak havoc on certain racialized communities. We are a group of bioethicists, drug experts, legal scholars, criminal justice researchers, sociologists, psychologists, and other allied professionals who have come together in support of a policy proposal that is evidence-based and ethically recommended. We call for the immediate decriminalization of all so-called recreational drugs and, ultimately, for their timely and appropriate legal regulation. We also call for criminal convictions for nonviolent offenses pertaining to the use or possession of small quantities of such drugs to be expunged, and for those currently serving time for these offenses to be released. In effect, we call for an end to the "war on drugs."
Publisher: United States
Language: English;Norwegian
Identifier: ISSN: 1526-5161
EISSN: 1536-0075
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2020.1861364
PMID: 33413050
Source: NORA Norwegian Open Research Archives

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