In a World of Legal Weed, Michael Thompson Languishes in Prison for Selling It in 1994
The criminal justice reform movement’s focus on “nonviolent” offenders has hurt people like Michael Thompson: “Where’s the violence coming in at?”
Tana Ganeva
Tana Ganeva is a reporter covering criminal justice, drug policy, immigration, and politics. She's written for the Washington Post, RollingStone.com, Glamour, Gothamist, Vice, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Prior to that she was deputy editor of The Influence, a web magazine about drug policy and criminal justice. For years she served as the managing editor of AlterNet.org.
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