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Liberty Lost: The Moral Case For Marijuana Law Reform, Eric Blumenson, Eva Nilsen Jan 2010

Liberty Lost: The Moral Case For Marijuana Law Reform, Eric Blumenson, Eva Nilsen

Indiana Law Journal

Marijuana policy analyses typically focus on the relative costs and benefits of present policy and its feasible alternatives. This Essay addresses a prior, threshold issue: whether marijuana criminal laws abridge fundamental individual rights, and if so, whether there are grounds that justify doing so. Over 700, 000 people are arrested annually for simple marijuana possession, a small but significant proportion of the 100 million Americans who have committed the same crime. In this Essay, we present a civil libertarian case for repealing marijuana possession laws. We put forward two arguments corresponding to the two distinct liberty concerns implicated by laws …


Work Of The Louisiana Supreme Court, 1937-38 Term: Criminal Law And Procedure, Jerome Hall Jan 1939

Work Of The Louisiana Supreme Court, 1937-38 Term: Criminal Law And Procedure, Jerome Hall

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Prosecution Appeals In West Virginia, Frank Edward Horack Jr. Jan 1934

Prosecution Appeals In West Virginia, Frank Edward Horack Jr.

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