The rapid pace of cannabis legalization in North America has provoked a backlash that is predictable and discouraging. The New Prohibitionists, distinct but related to their predecessors, the Old Prohibitionsists, have offered scholarship rife with conceptual errors, methodological flaws, and practical oversights. While their advice would likely hasten that which they seek to decrease, they overlook the costs of returning to practices associated with prohibition. To counter simplistic research interpretations and ill-considered policy, we present a critically informed research program on cannabis and crime based on previous scholarship. Our work is designed to apply replacement discourse and refocus research to withstand the tendency for justice systems to subvert, rather than embrace, reform. Cannabis legalization has been decades in the making and serious questions remain for proponents, opponents, and policymakers. Society, however, will be far worse off if the mistakes of reefer madness are repeated.

北美大麻合法化的迅速发展引发了可预见和令人沮丧的反弹。新的禁酒主义者与前任的禁酒主义者截然不同，但与他们的前任有联系，它们为奖学金泛滥带来了概念上的错误，方法上的缺陷以及实际的监督。尽管他们的建议可能会加速他们寻求减少的建议，但他们忽略了恢复与禁令有关的做法的成本。为了对付简单的研究解释和不正确的政策，我们在以前的奖学金基础上提出了有关大麻和犯罪的关键信息研究计划。我们的工作旨在运用替代性话语和重新研究，以抵制司法系统颠覆而不是接受改革的趋势。大麻合法化已经进行了数十年，对于支持者，反对者和决策者来说仍然存在严重的问题。但是，如果再次犯下冷藏柜疯狂的错误，社会将变得更加糟糕。