#WeedReads | The Devil’s Lettuce

A reading list full of the best coverage of cannabis policy, politics and profits.

I. Devil’s Lettuce: The Brief & Wondrous Life Of The War On Drugs

• The War on Drugs: From Prohibition to Gold Rush, Jay-Z, Molly Crabapple, and The Drug Policy Alliance, September 2016
• Undoing the Damage of the Drug War, Amanda Chicago Lewis, Rolling Stone, May 2019
• Marijuana: A Short History, John Hudak, 2016
• Reefer Madness: The Brief & Wondrous Life of Pot Prohibition, Pt. 1, Natalie Papillion, February 2020
• Reefer Madness: The Brief & Wondrous Life of Pot Prohibition, Pt. I1, Natalie Papillion, February 2020
• Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America, Emily Dufton, 2017
• The Politics of Pot, James Sterba, Esquire, August 1968
• Reefer Madness, Eric Schlosser, The Atlantic, August 1994
• The Racist Origins of Marijuana Prohibition, Alyssa Pagano, Business Insider, 2019
• Overpoliced, Underrepresented: Racial Inequality and Cannabis Capitalism, Katie Weiner, Harvard Politics Review, May 2019
• Grass is Greener, Fab 5 Freddy, 2019
• Pot Legalization 2.0: Social Equity Becomes a Key Question, Jenn Peltz, Associated Press, May 2019.

We’re constantly updating this list — you can find the most up-to-date version here. Email us at hello@equityorganization.org with recommendations for other pieces we should include.