A look at efforts to make legal pot foster social justice
(WorldNews Health)

NEW YORK (AP) - Questions about marijuana and social justice have played a prominent role this year in several U.S. states’ debates about pot legalization. But other states and cities where recreational or medical marijuana already is legal have also endeavored to make up for the consequences and racial disparities of decades of policing pot. Efforts have included clearing convictions; trying to carve out a place in the burgeoning cannabis business for minorities, the poor and people with past pot arrests; and channeling pot tax money to communities where arrests were prevalent. Results have been mixed, fueling arguments from legalization proponents who want new campaigns to do more to...