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Just Dope: A Leading Attorney's Personal Journey Inside the War on Drugs
By Margolin, Allison
- ISBN
- 9781623176860
- Publisher
- North Atlantic Bks.
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Reviewed on June 1, 2022 | Social Sciences
With its double entendre title, lawyer Margolin's book aptly has two sides. The daughter of a famed criminal lawyer and herself a cannabis law expert (who calls herself "LA's dopest attorney"), Margolin discusses her own recreational drug use as well as the American war on drugs broadly. She argues that a just legal treatment of drug use or possession should not primarily punish those who aren't like her (white, affluent, Ivy League—educated), and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
