In the end, it was this coalition of suburban centrists, rather than the more openly villainous Anita Bryant types, who paved the way for the drug war’s worst racialized harms. By killing federal marijuana decriminalization and pushing Carter toward a “zero-t…

Matthew D. Lassiter. The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs. Stanford University Press, 2023.In 2014, Philadelphias affluent suburbs suffered a shocking revelation. Two young white m…