Marijuana should be legalized nationwide. Add your name if you agree.

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Here's a bit more background: In the 1970s, as the gains from the Civil Rights Movement became real, the federal government started a war. They called it the War on Drugs, but the truth is that it was really a war on people – very particular people. In fact, it is now widely accepted that our federal government flooded communities with drugs, laundered the profits, then cracked down on the victims by arresting and convicting them.

In the 40+ years since, tens of millions of people, predominantly from communities of color, have been victims of this war – caught up in prison, their permanent records forever stained by senseless convictions for non-violent drug crimes. People who should’ve received treatment instead got jail.

District Attorneys have the power of righting those wrongs directly, by doing these three things:

1. Expunging and cleaning the records of people previously convicted for marijuana crimes. Nobody should pay a lifetime price for what is now widely legal.
   
   
2. Dropping the current cases and arrests of non-violent marijuana charges. This is a waste of precious resources that could be spent in so many better ways.
   
   
3. Instructing judges and prosecutors to send all non-violent drug offenders into well-resourced counseling and diversion programs. Let’s wrap people who need it with treatment – not prison.

So while we pressure the White House to do the right thing and legalize marijuana, we must also continue this critical work to elect DAs who will refuse to be complicit in the war on drugs in the meantime. If you can, please make a donation to power this important work.

— The Real Justice Team