'I'm still a prisoner of the Drug War:' New Jersey man speaks from state prison

For Humberto Ramirez, his family, and many other Americans, the War on Drugs was simply a ‘war on us’ There are roughly 40,000 non-violent cannabis prisoners in the United States, according to the Last Prisoner Project. Yet with recreational cannabis now legal in 19 states and Washington, DC, and medical marijuana legal in more than […]


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