دانلود کتاب Something's in the Air: Race, Crime, and the Legalization of Marijuana

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Editors’ Introduction: Ending a War or Just California Dreamin’?
This Is Our Exit Strategy: The Case for Legalization
California Dreamin’: The Case against Cannabis
The Chapters in This Volume
Notes
1.
Criminal Justice Costs of Prohibiting Marijuana in California
Existing Estimates of the Cost Marijuana Prohibition Imposes on
California
Calculating the Costs for 2010
Community Corrections
Other Costs
Results
Discussion
Notes
2.
Public-Health Considerations in the Legalization Debate
Drugs, Drug Laws, and African Americans
Case Study: Marijuana Arrests in Illinois
Marijuana and the Community Justice Model
Other Public-Health Impacts of Criminalizing Marijuana
Conclusion
Notes
3. The Paths Not (Yet) Taken: Lower Risk Alternatives to Full-Market Legalization of
Cannabis
Reflections on Prop 19
Home Cultivation
The Dutch Cannabis Coffee-Shop System
Cannabis Clubs and Licensing Models
Conclusions
Notes
4.
Why Did Proposition 19 Fail?
Theoretical Foundations
Our Survey
Statewide Electoral Data
Conclusion
Notes
5.
Winds of Change: Black Opinion on Legalizing Marijuana
Growing Support in the Black Community
Explaining Black Support for the Legalization of
Marijuana
Conclusion: A New Direction in the Debate
6.
The Highs and Lows of Support for Marijuana Legalization Among White Americans
Modern Debates over Marijuana Legalization
Generational Explanations are Insufficient
Putting the Marijuana Debate in Context
The Emergence of Medical Marijuana
Conclusion and Discussion
Notes
7.
Building Minority Community Power Through Legalization
Black Deviance–White Innocence
The Blumstein Effect: The Problem with Race Disproportionality and the War on Drugs
Getting High versus Getting Free: Legalization as a Step toward Carceral System Reform
Conclusion
Notes
8.
The Latino Politics of Proposition 19: Criminal Justice and Immigration
The Anti-Mexican History of Marijuana Laws
Criminal Justice Politics
Immigration Politics
Conclusion
Notes
9.
No Half-Measures: Mexico’s Quixotic Policy on California’s Proposition 19
Mexico’s Battle Against Organized Crime
U.S. Cooperation in the Drug War
Mexico as a Consumer Nation
Previous Mexican Drug Decriminalization
Mexican Voices for Change in Drug Policy
Questionable Potential of Proposition 19
Tracing Calderón’s Statements on Proposition 19
An International Drug Prohibition Regime Change
Other Expert Analyses
Conclusions
Notes
10.
The “Chronic” and Coercion: Exploring How Legalizing Marijuana Might Get the U.S. Government off the Backs and Throats of Americans (or, Not)
The War Against the Chronic (or, the Chronic War)
Legalization
Drug “Wars” and Breaking Blacks: On Disciplining and Punishing
Chronic Conclusions
Notes
References
List of Contributors
Index