Legalization Boosters Stand with Protesters, See Opportunity

Ongoing protests over police brutality will likely prompt policy reforms in law enforcement and other areas.

Cannabis could be one. Several cannabis reform organizations stepped up their arguments this week.

In an email notice, Marijuana Policy Project Executive Director Steve Hawkins wrote, “This plant has been at the epicenter of a vicious drug war” since President Richard Nixon listed it as a Schedule I drug in 1970. Police, he added, have long used cannabis as justification in oppressive policing and deadly encounters.

“There are many ways . . .