08.06.21 Hall Center Virtual Grand Rounds Summer Series with Jelani Jefferson Exum, Dean and Philip J. McElroy Professor of Law, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law

This presentation explores the history of the war on drugs, beginning with a focus on the sentencing laws that operated as a warfare model designed to punish crack cocaine offenders.  The presentation highlights the current shift in understanding about substance use disorder and will advocate for drug sentencing as a whole to be reconceptualized from use as a weapon – designed to destroy - to having a public health and welfare purpose.