Waiting to Inhale: Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice

by Akwasi Owusu-Bempah and Tahira Rehmatullah

Book Overview

The roots of a racial reckoning through the lens of cannabis.

From the start, the War on Drugs targeted Black, Brown, and Indigenous Americans already disadvantaged by a system stacked against them. Even now, as white Americans who largely escaped the fire capitalize on the legalization movement and a booming cannabis industry, their less fortunate peers continue to suffer the consequences of the systemic racism in policing and failed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262047683
• ISBN13: 9780262047685
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"