Read papers from “The Controlled Substances Act at 50 Years” in the latest issue of the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law

Though 2020 has been a rough year, I still feel fortunate that the last big in-person event I attended was this amazing conference, “The Controlled Substances Act at 50 Years,” which was hosted in February 2020 by the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and put together by the amazing team at The Ohio State University’s Drug Enforcement and Policy Center and ASU’s Academy for Justice.  This terrific conference is on my mind now because the terrific Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law has recently published its Fall 2020 issue which includes these nine terrific papers from the conference:

The Tools at Hand: Surveillance Innovations and the Shifting Role of Federal Law Enforcement in Drug Control by Anne E. Boustead

Mandatory Minimum Entrenchment and the Controlled Substances Act by Stephanie Holmes Didwania

Preemption Up in Smoke: Should States Be Allowed a Voice in Scheduling Under the Controlled Substances Act? by Oliver J. Kim

Reconsidering Federal Marijuana Regulation by Paul J. Larkin Jr.

The Bureaucratic Afterlife of the Controlled Substances Act by Lauren M. Ouziel

Goodbye Marijuana Schedule 1 — Welcome to a Post-Legalization World by Melanie Reid

The Complex Interplay Between the Controlled Substances Act and the Gun Control Act by Dru Stevenson

Making Drug-Related Deportability 1914 Again? How a Strict “Categorical Approach” to the CSA Would Eliminate Unpredictable Agency Interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act by Michael S. Vastine

The Federal Judiciary’s Role in Drug Law Reform in an Era of Congressional Dysfunction by Erica Zunkel & Alison Siegler