Authoritative Reports Regarding Cannabis Policy, Research, and Statistics

Professional Medical Organizations

• Cannabis and the Regulatory Void. Don Lyman, Chair, Legalization and Taxation of Marijuana Technical Advisory Committee – California Medical Association, 2011
• The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: The Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research – National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine, 2017

Drug Policy

• Uruguay’s Drug Policy: Major Innovations, Major Challenges – Foreign Policy at Brookings, 2016

Cannabis Legalization Updates

• From Prohibition to Progress: A Status Report on Marijuana Legalization – Drug Policy Alliance, 2018
• Impacts of Marijuana Legalization in Colorado – Colorado Department of Public Safety, 2018

Racial Disparities in Cannabis and other Drug Prohibition

• Marijuana Incarceration in California Jails – Drug Policy Action, 2016
• The War on Marijuana in Black and White: Billions of Dollars Wasted on Racially Biased Arrests – ACLU, 2013
• The numbers in black and white: ethnic disparities in the policing and prosecution of drug offences in England and Wales – Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2013
• The Incarceration of Drug Offenders – The Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme, 2009
• Behind Bars: Substance Abuse and America’s Prison Population – The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, 1998