The cost of the war on drugs cannot be explained by looking only at sentences. We also have to look at the laws that made them possible. In the first part of this story, we asked how much a public policy can cost when someone ends up sick, elderly, or dead inside the prison system because of a cannabis-related offense. Now we have to ask a different question: How did those convictions become possible? To a large extent, the answer lies in U.S. federal law. For decades, cannab
Entre Prada, Gucci, Moschino y la aparición de robots en Vogue World, Milán dejó una radiografía de una industria que intenta equilibrar creatividad, tecnología y negocio sin perder aquello que la hace humana.
The cost of the war on drugs cannot be explained by looking only at sentences. We also have to look at the laws that made them possible. In the first part of this story, we asked how much a public policy can cost when someone ends up sick, elderly, or dead inside the prison system because of a cannabis-related offense. Now we have to ask a different question: How did those convictions become possible? To a large extent, the answer lies in U.S. federal law. For decades, cannab
There is one question that deserves to be asked every time the United States revisits the future of its cannabis laws: What has been the human cost of the war against a plant? This is not to say that cannabis is harmless. It isn't. It's a psychoactive substance, it can produce adverse effects, and its use also poses risks that deserve to be discussed seriously. But there is another conversation, much less frequent: that of the people who ended up losing years —and in some cas
