Journal article
Racial justice requires ending the war on drugs
- Abstract:
- Historically, laws and policies to criminalize drug use or possession were rooted in explicit racism, and they continue to wreak havoc on certain racialized communities. We are a group of bioethicists, drug experts, legal scholars, criminal justice researchers, sociologists, psychologists, and other allied professionals who have come together in support of a policy proposal that is evidence-based and ethically recommended. We call for the immediate decriminalization of all so-called recreational drugs and, ultimately, for their timely and appropriate legal regulation. We also call for criminal convictions for nonviolent offenses pertaining to the use or possession of small quantities of such drugs to be expunged, and for those currently serving time for these offenses to be released. In effect, we call for an end to the “war on drugs.”
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/15265161.2020.1861364
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+ Bioethicists and Allied Professionals for Drug Policy Reform
- Division:
- HUMS
- Department:
- Philosophy Faculty
- Role:
- Contributor
+ Levy, N
- Division:
- HUMS
- Department:
- Philosophy Faculty
- Role:
- Contributor
+ Savulescu, J
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- HUMS
- Department:
- Philosophy Faculty
- Role:
- Contributor
et al.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Journal:
- American Journal of Bioethics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 4-19
- Publication date:
- 2021-01-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-12-04
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1536-0075
- ISSN:
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1526-5161
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1148122
- Local pid:
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pubs:1148122
- Deposit date:
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2020-12-08
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- Copyright holder:
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Routledge at: https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2020.1861364
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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