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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 might get them into legal trouble. But many aren’t, and the line...
AG Bonta Talks 'People Power' in Oakland
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Feb 20, 2024

AG Bonta Talks ‘People Power’ in Oakland

On Feb. 8, Rob Bonta gave the keynote speech at the Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture held at Beebe Memorial Cathedral in Oakland. During his speech, Bonta shared his journey from being a “brown boy born...
Top Pot ‘Cop’ Evolves Cannabis Stance As Is Her Job
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...
Ava DuVernay's New Film Makes the Caste Connection
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...
Prohibitionist Republicans' Latest Irredeemably Stupid Cannabis Policy
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...
Oakland Coaches Trained to Support Young Athletes' Mental Health
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Feb 6, 2024

Oakland Coaches Trained to Support Young Athletes’ Mental Health

This article was produced by Capital & Main and is copublished here with permission. Sign up for Capital & Main’s newsletter. When gunshots ring out around the parks where Oakland Soccer Club practices, the teenage athletes keep their focus on...
MedMen’s Downfall By Hubris
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...
Bystander Intervention Engages BART Riders in Safety Protocol
Jan 30, 2024

Bystander Intervention Engages BART Riders in Safety Protocol

A little over five years ago, 18-year-old Nia Wilson got on BART in Concord with her sisters Latifah and Tashiya for the last time. John Lee Cowell, then 29 and three months out of treatment at a...
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