Social Impact

Cannabis went from pharmacy shelves to prison sentences in one lifetime. This page follows the people that change reached: how the plant was renamed and tied, in police files and the press, to Mexican immigrants and Black musicians, how the war on drugs filled prisons and fell hardest on Black and brown communities, how patients and AIDS activists fought back, and how legalization is still catching up with the records it left behind. Every card is sourced, and the page ends with what you can do.