Some summer criminal justice highlights from Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform

It has been quite some time since I did a round-up of posts of note from my blogging over at Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform, though that is not because there has been any shortage of interesting developments and timely research at the intersection of marijuana policy and criminal justice policy.   So, with a focus on criminal-justice-related stories, here are some of many posts of note from recent months:

• “Not in my backyard? Not so fast. The effect of marijuana legalization on neighborhood crime”

• How could and should we track and assess the impact of many thousands of marijuana conviction expungements?

• “Harm Reduction Policing: From Drug Law Enforcement to Protection”

• Code for America helping with automatic marijuana expungement efforts in Illinois

• “Restorative justice must begin with America’s pot POWs”

• Hemp reforms causing headaches for criminal marijuana enforcement

• “Hemp legalization is slippery slope, and that’s OK”

• “The short-run effects of marijuana dispensary openings on local crime”

• New Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act envisions creating a Cannabis Justice Office

• Spotlighting (and following) the social equity and justice provisions in new Illinois “Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act”

• Split Colorado Supreme Court gives notable new interpretation of limits on drug-sniffing searches due to marijuana legalization

• “Harm Reduction in Domestic Violence: Does Marijuana Make Assaults Safer?”

• Interesting data on marijuana arrests in DC after 2014 legalization initiative