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The criminalization of marijuana in Georgia began in the 1930s
In 1934, local law enforcement initiated the first marijuana raid in Georgia. Photo Courtesy of
When opioids hit the U.S. in 1775, their use remained widely medical, aiding Civil War soldiers in dealing with intense pain. However, over more than 100 years, the recreational use of opium became popular. In 1914 the federal government passed the Harrison Act, prohibiting the production and sale of opiates and cocaine.
Massive raids of cocaine, heroin and opiate sellers provided an opening for a marijuana boom in the South.
It became common during the early 1900s to use marijuana for recreational purposes, and the Harrison Act did not cover its use.
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J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’
Great jazz singer’s life torturously lived, difficult to watch.
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Andra Day portrays Billie Holiday in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday.” Takashi Seida/Hulu photo
Director Lee Daniels (“The Butler” 2013) brings to the screen a brutal, painful two hours and 10 minutes of the life of the great jazz singer, Billie Holiday, in his film “United States vs. Billie Holiday.”
Following close behind the recent “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” George. C. Wolfe’s screen version of August Wilson’s play, rips back the curtain on the ugly past of many of the music world’s great black performers.
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New Jersey has more to do to end the War on Drugs | Opinion
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
Posted Feb 25, 2021
In 2016 alone, New Jersey invested over $670 million to enforce the drug war. We must stop funding the war and get rid of archaic drug laws that decimate entire communities, says the Rev. Dr. Charles F. Boyer, founding director of Salvation and Social Justice.
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By Charles Boyer
In New Jersey and across the United States, the decades-long War on Drugs has been weaponized to create a modern-day slavery system through mass incarceration. There are currently more Black Americans under the control of the criminal justice system than there were in slavery in 1850 – 11 years before the start of the Civil War. Here in New Jersey, Black people make up 54% of those incarcerated – the highest disparity anywhere in the country between Blacks and whites in our jails and prisons.
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