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Description: Marijuana crimes have led to over 40 million arrests since Richard Nixon launched the war on drugs in the 1970s. The so-called “collateral consequences” of these arrests can prevent offenders from getting certain jobs, certain public benefits, and even student loans. Now that marijuana is being legalized in places across the country, there’s a growing movement to expunge – or wipe away - these arrests. Lou examines the pros and cons. SOURCES & FURTHER READING Collateral Consequences Resource Center ccresourcecenter.org Berman on Leveraging Marijuana Reform to Enhance Expungement Practices papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3165001 Thompson on “Good moral characters”: How drug felons are impacted under state marijuana legalization laws academia.edu/32705806/_Good_moral_characters_how_drug_felons_are_impacted_under_state_marijuana_legalization_laws ACLU’s War on Marijuana in Black and White aclu.org/report/report-war-marijuana-black-and-white National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Convictions’ database niccc.csgjusticecenter.org Expungement of Criminal Convictions: An Empirical Study papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3353620 CREDITS Writer: Louis Foglia Editor: Page Ellerson Researcher: Dushyant Naresh Supervising Producer: Allison Brown Follow Beme on Instagram: instagram.com/bemenews Twitter: twitter.com/bemenews Facebook: facebook.com/officialbeme