Something's in the Air

Katherine Tate is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author and coauthor of several books, including most recently, What’s Going On? Political Incorporation and the Transformation of Black Public Opinion. James Lance Taylor is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics at the University of San Francisco. Taylor is the author of Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama. Mark Q. Sawyer is Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at UCLA. He is the author of the award winning book, Racial Politics in Post Revolutionary Cuba, and co-editor of Just Neighbors?: Research on African Americans and Latino Relations in the United States.

Introduction: Ending a War or Just California Dreamin’?; Katherine Tate, James Lance Taylor, and Mark Q. Sawyer 1. Criminal Justice Costs of Prohibiting Marijuana in California; Jonathan P. Caulkins and Beau Kilmer 2. Public Health Considerations in the Legalization Debate; Chyvette T. Williams and Thomas Lyons 3. The Paths Not (Yet) Taken: Lower Risk Alternatives to Full Market Legalization of Cannabis; Robert J. MacCoun 4. Why Did Proposition 19 Fail?; J. Andrew Sinclair, Jaclyn R. Kimble and R. Michael Alvarez 5. Winds of Change: Black Opinion on Legalizing Marijuana; Katherine Tate 6. The Highs and Lows of Support for Marijuana Legalization among White Americans; Paul Musgrave and Clyde Wilcox 7. Building Minority Community Power through Legalization; James Lance Taylor 8. The Latino Politics of Proposition 19: Criminal Justice and Immigration; Melissa R. Michelson and Joe Tafoya 9. No Half-Measures: Mexico’s Quixotic Policy on California’s Proposition 19; Nathan Jones 10. The "Chronic" and Coercion: Exploring how Legalizing Marijuana Might Get the U.S. Government off the Backs and Throats of Americans (or, not); Christian Davenport