New York State finally passed a bill that legalizes marijuana and justly releases people serving time for the kind of drug crimes that now are no more. The enforcement of the drug bans were always super racially skewed, primarily targeting people of color. Carl Hart’s “Drug Use for Grownups” really drives home just how misguided the war on drugs has been. There is another less discussed area where criminalization has led to similar issues and that is sex work. In sex work too law enforcement ...
