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In 1959, the Dow Chemical Company moved into Plaquemine, Louisiana, and began making vinyl chloride, a colorless cancer-causing gas used to produce a variety of plastic products. Twenty years later, after years […]
The cannabis industry is thriving, and as the stigma behind the plant begins to fade, public officials are beginning to see the benefits — medicinally and otherwise — of legalizing a plant […]
On July 4, 1776, the U.S. established itself as independent. Although the American educational system teaches children that his land was “discovered,” it’s history does not begin with the foundation […]
“They are not our friend, believe me,” Donald Trump said of Mexican immigrants: “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” This quote […]
America’s first reparations plan to compensate Black Americans for slavery was 40 acres and a mule a piece, but that promise was revoked and the land was taken back. Now […]
Reasonable suspicion and probable cause are two terms that we have all heard. Whether it be on the evening news, in the paper or the latest CSI episode, it is […]
In 2012, the same year cannabis was legalized in Washington, almost fifty percent of all drug arrests were for marijuana. People of color (POC), namely black and latinxs folks, were (and still […]
“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women… When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on […]
Sunday is often a day for self-care. On days like this Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon finds itself occupied with those who seek the subtle sounds of the […]
The drug war, in reality, is nothing more than a war against the impoverished and the disenfranchised in the United States. Even as we’ve begun to break from the antiquated […]