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Man smoking marijuana among cannabis plants.

The Unlikely SF Community That Launched America's Weed Industry

Without the local San Francisco activists who risked their lives for it, today’s legal cannabis market might never have come to be.

by Lester Black via SFGATE on June 27, 2024

From Drug War to Dispensaries

An oral history of weed legalization’s first wave in the 1990s.

by Jordan Heller via Intelligencer on November 14, 2018

Painting from 1857 by Alexander Beydeman depicting the light-filled practise of homeopathy, including a silver-haired Hahnemann, watching disapprovingly on over the horrors wrought by traditional medicine, referred to as Allopathy

Proving It: The American Provers’ Union Documents Certain Ill Effects

The history of "proving", the practice of auto-experimentation that forms the cornerstone of homeopathic medicine.

by Alicia Puglionesi via The Public Domain Review on September 4, 2013

Picture of a young woman with cannabis leaves.

The Pot to Prison Pipeline

How does a plant become a crime?

by Sophie Yanow, Zack Ruskin via The Nib on September 27, 2021

painting of a monkey smoking a pipe

Our Strange Addiction

The transformation of tobacco and cannabis into early modern global obsessions.

by Benjamin Breen via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 15, 2021

Marijuana Reform Should Focus On Inequality

When regulators dictate who grows a cash crop, they can spread the wealth—or help the rich get richer.

by Sarah Milov via The Atlantic on October 5, 2019

A modern adaption of Howard Chandler Christy’s 1940 painting, “Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States,” with contemporary players on both sides of the judicial contest.

How The Federalist Society is Helping Conservatives Win The Judicial War

It isn’t just about Supreme Court picks. The group’s impact on the law goes much deeper.

by David Montgomery via Washington Post Magazine on January 2, 2019

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