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Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform
The PBS News Hour has this great new and lengthy piece about marijuana expungement laws and practices under the headline As more states legalize marijuana, people with drug convictions want their records cleared. Regular readers know I have long been invested in these issues (see my 2018 article, Leveraging Marijuana Reform to Enhance Expungement Practices ), and I am especially pleased that folks at the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center worked with folks at the Collateral Consequences Resource Center to create the national map found in the PBS piece and reprinted here. I recommend the PBS piece in full, and here are some excerpts:
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It is widely accepted in the medical field and elsewhere that social and environmental factors in a person’s life can seriously impact that person’s health and general well-being. These social and physical factors are referred to as “social determinants of health,” and they may cause issues that cannot be prevented with a vaccine or removed by a surgical procedure. Homelessness, food insecurity, poor housing conditions, and domestic violence are all factors that may cause patients to turn and return to urgent care clinics and emergency rooms. Medical care providers are regularly disturbed and frustrated by the issues they have little control over and yet hamper their patients’ ability to get better and remain healthy.