Tag Archives: pot

The Sun’s Own Room

Jordan Rosenfeld’s dad was a dealer. Selling pot in amounts that could have put him in federal prison. The money bought designer clothes, cars – and decades of uncertainty. Continue reading

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The 50 Most Drug-Addled Albums in Music History

Rampant Madness, Cheap Powder, and the Whiskey River: the fifty most dope-addled albums in music history. Continue reading

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The Mexican Connection, Part II: Inhuman Trafficking

By some estimates, the cartels make more money from human trafficking than they do from the illegal drug trade. Katie Arnoldi and Greg Olear investigate. Continue reading

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The Mexican Connection, Part I: Cannabis Wrecks

Marijuana, drug enforcement, the cartels. Immigration, border patrol, human trafficking. Undocumented labor, worker protection, women’s rights. How the U.S. government chooses to manage, or not manage, any one of these issues has a ripple effect on all the others. All are connected, and all flow inevitably from the relationship between the United States of America and the United States of Mexico. Continue reading

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