The Equity Organization

✊🏾 Fighting for a just, effective and equitable approach to criminal justice and drug policy reform.

[The Equity Organization @equityorg]

A few months ago, @npapillion teamed up w/ @lastprisonerprj to put together a study detailing the impact cannabis prohibition has had on America's criminal justice system. The Policing of Marijuana—the first part of the #CriminalInjustice series—is now live. Check it out ✨!

[Last Prisoner Project @lastprisonerprj]

✨ Announcing #CriminalInjustice, a four-part study detailing the staggering human & economic costs of our unjust crusade. The first piece—The Policing of Marijuana Prohibition—explores how prohibition has transformed police work: the "front door" of our criminal justice system.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Have you ever watched a bail hearing? I'm going to show you a few this week. Take a minute to watch how our society decides who is in a cage. This is what happens in over 3,000 courtrooms every day: a woman jailed because she can't pay $2,000 on a marijuana charge.

[The Equity Organization @equityorg]

✨Live-tweeting the @RulesDemocrats hearing on the #MOREAct. Follow along @lastprisonerprj.

[Last Prisoner Project @lastprisonerprj]

In a few minutes, @RulesDemocrats will convene to discuss the #MOREAct. If discharged from Committee, it could be voted on as early as tomorrow. Follow along as we live tweet the meeting—& don't forget to #DemandMORE from your Congressperson by heading to https://t.co/OOh0ouISkD

[(((JS Rafaeli))) @JSRafaelism]

Latest film for @VICE

Want to know how the entire War on Drugs is built on racism....and how probably the most important act we can do to dismantle structural racism is to end it??

Want to know all that in about 11-minutes? Here you go.

https://t.co/gA7RH0JGSr

[The Equity Organization @equityorg]

In @BET "Smoke: Marijuana + Black America" doc, premiering tonight, Sen. @CoryBooker, VP-elect @KamalaHarris, @RepBarbaraLee & others speak on the failures of the drug war & affirm their commitment to dismantling this ineffective, five-decade-long crusade. https://t.co/hbSlTCcybm

[The Equity Organization @equityorg]

Grateful to Pennsylvania's @FettermanLt for continually speaking on the harms of cannabis criminalization & pushing his colleagues to help him end this unjust & ineffective crusade.

[Archived: Lt. Gov. John Fetterman @FettermanLt]

No, I don't use cannabis. Yes, I'll be tested, if that's what it takes for our legislature to pass legalization.

You don't have to personally use cannabis to see that it's just common sense and the people of Pennsylvania deserve this freedom. https://t.co/bBhspgx2sw

[Last Prisoner Project @lastprisonerprj]

📝 We recently wrote @Transition46 to congratulate them & offer support as they work to dismantle our unjust & ineffective approach to cannabis policy. The evidence is overwhelming—marijuana prohibition only serves to animate & exacerbate the social inequities & racial injustices

[The Equity Organization @equityorg]

“I’m hoping they end the war on drugs. I’m hoping they release the individuals who have non-violent criminal drug offenses since people are already out here making money off of legal cannabis." https://t.co/EL47poc1EQ

[John Hudak @JohnJHudak]

With AZ, MS, MT, NJ & SD passing #cannabis ballot measures on November 3rd, over 111 million Americans live in states that reformed their adult-use laws (34% of the US pop.), and over 225 million Americans live in states that reformed their medical laws (69% of the US pop.)

[PPX @PPX_agency]

Prohibition has had a hugely adverse impact on minority communities in the US for decades, so what has to be done to create real change & even reverse that impact?

At #PPLIVE we speak to the leaders & pioneers leading the charge for a paradigm shift.
https://t.co/3eK49pZzfr

[The Equity Organization @equityorg]

@Dan_Adams86 This is great, thanks for highlighting!

[Natalie Fertig @natsfert]

"Black people are arrested for marijuana possession at 3.7x the rate of White people, according to the ACLU. And it’s even higher in some of the states voting on legalization this coming Tuesday: In Montana, it’s 9.6 times; in South Dakota, it’s 5 times" https://t.co/1dvZj70Ug8

[Taniel @Taniel]

NEW: Criminal justice & mass incarceration are on 2020 ballot in many states. We've covered local & state elections—DAs, sheriffs, referendums, & more—all year.

Now, rolling out a new interactive tool to explore criminal justice battlegrounds. Dig in! https://t.co/Nx9dq8clRv

[Matt Sutton @MattSuttonEP]

🚨BREAKING🚨 @DrugPolicyOrg Joins State & Municipal Cannabis Regulators in Calling on Congress to Prioritize Federal Marijuana Reform by Passing #MOREAct 📢 FULL QUOTE from @DPA_ONA Dir. @MaritzaCPerez IN THREAD 👇 https://t.co/NPXrZ6LLK6

[The Equity Organization @equityorg]

@TheCannaWriter Preach.

[Last Prisoner Project @lastprisonerprj]

We are asking cannabis companies to join us in an effort to make fair chance hiring practices a new norm and guiding principle for the industry, and to work alongside us in removing barriers to employment for justice-impacted candidates.

[The Equity Organization @equityorg]

Despite receiving a v. similar number of complaints re: #marijuana in both neighborhoods, #NYPD arrested ~4X people per capita in Canarsie (81% Black) v. Greenpoint (4% Black). Activist & Canarsie native Floyd Jarvis—“I know of 5 Black men that have been deported for #cannabis.”

[Filter | harm reduction journalism @Filtermag_org]

“I know of five Black men that have been deported for cannabis. I have been arrested in Canarsie three times for cannabis. There’s many young men who have been arrested for it in Canarsie.”

https://t.co/qRkNRLNuYH

[The Equity Organization @equityorg]

#CriminalInjustice explores how federal drug law enforcement $$$ works to fuel the militarization of U.S police departments. Thanks to the incredible work of @gavroz, we can easily track the quantity & composition of those Dept. of Defense transfers ➡️ https://t.co/PpJhtvDjIZ

[The Equity Organization @equityorg]

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[NYPD 60th Precinct @NYPD60Pct]

Two Large Marijuana arrests this week. Say no to drugs!!! @NYPDBklynSouth @NYPDnews @NYPDShea

[Filter | harm reduction journalism @Filtermag_org]

"Responsibility for [Breonna] Taylor’s death lies with a five-decade-long “War on Drugs” that didn’t just enable state violence," writes @npapillion of @equityorg, "but actively incentivized it… all while ensuring virtual impunity for its perpetrators."

https://t.co/cVORW8IsMr

[Last Prisoner Project @lastprisonerprj]

We still have a long way to go but it shows just how far we’ve come that cannabis expungements are being covered in the #VPDebate ... onwards towards a fully legal, equitable industry and true restorative justice for impacted communities.