St. Thomas Law Review
April 27, 2021By Claudia Perez
Cannabis, also known as marijuana, has a complicated history in the United States. The public’s sentiment towards marijuana has historically been conflated with race, crime, and morality. It is this complicated relationship that makes the rapid change in support for marijuana law reform a surprising phenomenon.
March 29, 2021By Danay Hernandez
President Nixon declared drug abuse “public enemy number one.” Consequently, it should be absolutely no surprise that the war on drugs has resulted in the longest and deadliest war in the United States of America. The war on drugs has stormed the world for many decades. As of today, the war on drugs has been ongoing for forty-nine years.
January 11, 2021By Ricardo Jerome
For many years Hip Hop has been a prevalent genre in music and is becoming increasingly popular each year. Particularly, the relationship between Hip Hop and the laws of this land has been violent to say the least. Being that Hip Hop emerges from the culture of inner-city communities, it is not difficult to see why there would be tension.
December 18, 2020By Carly McAllister
On June 1, 1992, a leading headline of The Washington Post read: “D.C. WOMAN IS FATALLY SHOT IN BOSTON BY EX-BOYFRIEND.” Kristin Lardner, a 21-year-old art student at Boston’s Museum School, was the innocent victim doomed at the lethal hands of former boyfriend Michael Cartier, whom she had only dated for around two months. Lugubriously, […]
