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The Global Cannabis Commission Report Prominent drug policy scholars present this extensive report, an analysis of marijuana use and the criminal justice policies associated with its prohibition, to inform the upcoming United Nations Strategic Drug Policy Review of 2009. [More]

The Geography of Punishment This recent report examines the impact of mandatory minimum sentencing for drug offenses in Massachusetts school zones. Less than one percent of arrests in these zones involved drug sales to minors. The report also found that Latinos are five times more likely to live in such school zones than whites. [More]

The Narcotic Farm Published in conjunction with a new PBS documentary, The Narcotic Farm examines this unique federal facility in Lexington, Kentucky, which operated between 1935 and 1975. Many famous jazz musicians were sent to the Lexington prison hospital following narcotics-related arrests. The book examines its innovations as well as the controversial and sometimes contradictory methods used by its staff. [More]

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Ed Kirtz has been building the Lindesmith Library's collection and doing research for the drug policy reform movement since 2005. He studied library science at Queens College in New York and political science at Antioch College in Ohio.