Mike Males

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice

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Mike Males is a senior researcher for the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice.

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Starting on January 1, recreational marijuana will be legal in California. Selling weed could produce an economic boom — but for whom?

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