Cannabis Cultural Association [#87]

Sam and Rachelle talk about the biggest drug policy stories of the week, Tyler gives us the expansion of incarceration, and Sarah chats with Jake Plowden and Nelson Guerrero, co-founders of the Cannabis Cultural Association. News Updates: Scientists say the government’s only pot farm has moldy samples — and no federal testing standards With Rebels […]

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Sam and Rachelle talk about the biggest drug policy stories of the week, Tyler gives us the expansion of incarceration, and Sarah chats with Jake Plowden and Nelson Guerrero, co-founders of the Cannabis Cultural Association.

News Updates:

Scientists say the government’s only pot farm has moldy samples — and no federal testing standards
With Rebels Gone, Colombia Jumps Into the Pot Industry
Everett, Washington is suing Purdue Pharma
Activists have a plan to make legal weed lucrative for more than just white people

Headlines:

The Denver Post has confirmed that it no longer requires drug testing as part of its hiring process
Drug overdose deaths exhaust state indigent funeral funds in West Virginia
Drug war only targeting the poor? That’s how it is, says Duterte

Forecast:

March 20: Free Screening of the Critically Acclaimed Documentary 13th
Petition: Open a Supervised Injection Clinic in Philadelphia

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Drug History:

How many people have been incarcerated in the United States, and how has that changed between 1974 and 2015? 

Bureau of Justice Statistics (an excellent all around resource for this sort of data)
Demographics of Drug Offenders for FY 2012
Overview of Federal Criminal Cases FY 2015
Brief History of the Drug War
Historical Statistics on Prisoners in State and Federal Institutions, Yearend 1924-86
Historical Corrections Statistics in the United States, 1850 – 1984
Racial Disparity between U.S. and Incarcerated Populations

In 1923, there were 1,098 people institutionalized across all federal and state facilities for drug offenses. That’s roughly 1 per 100,000 people in the US at the time.
In 1974, 2683 of 22,361 federally incarcerated people were convicted of drug offenses. 

1980: ten years later, there were about 4700 people convicted for drug offenses, less than 20% of the total population of incarcerated people
1985: about 9400 people, about 26% of the total populations of incarcerated people
1990: over 24000, almost half of all people incarcerated in the US
1995: over 46000, over half of all people incarcerated at that time
2000: 74,000 out of 131000 people incarcerated on the federal level
2005: 88000 out of 160000 people
2010: the last year so far this number is over 50%. 97,800 out of 186,545
And finally, in 2015 there was a reduction to 92,000 out of 185,217

Call to Action:

3/31: Viridian Cannabis Investment Series: Cultural Diversity in the Cannabis Industry
4/22: National Cannabis Festival

Music Credits:

Intro: Dance for Sport by the2ba

Transition: bleep blorp (unreleased) by Meese Patrol

Transition: tom collichio (unreleased) by Meese Patrol

Outro: Hard Times by BAYCAT

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