In California, voters are going to decide on Proposition 19, a ballot initiative that would legalize the use of marijuana for non-medicinal purposes. For more on the politics and the practicality of Prop 19 we speak with Bruce Cain and Maia Szalavitz.
When Jerry Lemaine was told to plead guilty to possessing a misdemeanor amount of marijuana, he didn’t realize that it would result in his deportation to his family’s home country of Haiti. Why such harsh penalties on non-citizens for minor infractions?