AN EQUITY ACTION PLAN FOR MARIJUANA: THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S OPPORTUNITY TO ADVANCE EQUITY THROUGH CANNABIS REFORM

A Paper by Cat Packer, Drug Enforcement and Policy Center, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University

This paper examines the Biden Administration’s executive orders on equity, its position on marijuana reform before and after President Biden’s related October 2022 statement, and it's repeated statements acknowledging both cannabis criminalization’s disproportionate impact on Black and Latino communities and marijuana reform as an opportunity to advance equity.