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Sep 3, 2024
Displaced muralist wields political paintbrush—with love
Edythe Boone has called Berkeley home for more than half of her 86 years, and she’s beautified the Bay Area for just as long. Her murals blend together a kind of utopia; community representation with a rainbow...
Mar 12, 2024
No Reliable Standards Exist for Driving While High
Blood-alcohol tests often aren’t really conclusive when it comes to determining whether a person is too impaired to drive. Many people who are over the legal limit are probably perfectly fine to drive, even if doing so...
Feb 20, 2024
Mental Health Advocates Rate Prop 1 a Zero
Julia Ford was in the third trimester of her pregnancy when she moved out of an abandoned school bus in Oakland and into the Healthy Babies Project transitional housing. The shelter came with a treatment program founded...
Feb 13, 2024
Top Pot ‘Cop’ Evolves Cannabis Stance As Is Her Job
So-called “concerns” about President Joe Biden’s mental acuity have been ginned up by the right-wing propaganda machine with the enthusiastic help of an increasingly indistinguishable mainstream media.It’s all incredibly stupid and destructive. By most accounts from White...
Feb 13, 2024
Ava DuVernay’s New Film Makes the Caste Connection
What does the act of a racist vigilante have to do with the caste system in India that works to the detriment of the Dalits, Jewish people during the Holocaust and the system of slavery that’s in...
Feb 6, 2024
Prohibitionist Republicans’ Latest Irredeemably Stupid Cannabis Policy
Navigating the partisan politics of cannabis can be challenging because there are Republicans and Democrats on both sides of most reform initiatives. That makes cannabis politics almost unique in these days of Republicans automatically opposing any reforms...
Jan 30, 2024
MedMen’s Downfall By Hubris
It might be tempting to write off the astonishing implosion of MedMen as being just another instance of a weed business falling victim to the faltering cannabis economy, especially in California where MedMen is headquartered and where...
