Are the Protests Accelerating Cannabis Reform?

Most state legislatures are out of session. But Karen O’Keefe, director of state policies for Marijuana Policy Project, expects them to address cannabis and criminal justice issues with more urgency when they return.

Protests following George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis have cast a harsh new light on discriminatory policing. Part of that is how people of color are disproportionately arrested for cannabis possession.  The need to remove cannabis as a reason police stop people is “all the more apparent” now, O’Keefe said. “I think this will be . . .