11 April 2012
Annotated bibliography
Anderson, Matthew. “ Record Marijuana Arrest Feed The Prison Industrial Complex.” 30 Jan. 2009. Social Medicine. Social Medicine, n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2012.
Retrieved from http://www.socialmedicine.org/2009/01/30/uncategorized/record-marijuana-arrests-feed-the-prison-industrial-complex/
Matthew Anderson reports that in 2007 the Department of Justice reported the number of drug arrests and how many of those accounted for marijuana. Anderson continues on how marijuana is a big part of the arrest and how it is focus of police interest. Different aspects of cost are brought up that arise when incarcerating an inmate. Then Anderson talks demographics of what ethnicity contributed to the marijuana arrest of 2007. Anderson follows with a point of view of medical marijuana. I could use this source to back up the over cost of enforcement and incarceration. I will be able to give numbers of how many people are in jail and how much it cost. Find out the cost of a person and times it the number of marijuana convicts.
Dickinson, Tim. “Obama's War on Pot.” Rolling Stone . March 2012;(1151):32-35. Academic Search Complete. Web. 12 Apr. 2012.
The article discusses raids and other actions taken against medical marijuana dispensers by the U.S. federal government. The united Sates president Barack Obama speaks on his thoughts on medical marijuana. Obama continues on by saying he doesn’t want to get involved in what the states should decide. Obama has his administration taking action on medical marijuana dispensaries by threatening, raiding, and denying standard tax deductions. Obama says the only point of this is to keep the dispensaries running safe and legitimately. Many dispensaries use marijuana state laws to shield them from the government. All this action really gets voters stirred up, especially young voters. Voters are one the ones with the power to really make a change. The crackdown on dispensaries is hurting the