Sublime

I didn’t intend to focus so intently on marijuana outlaws in this story, and I certainly didn’t plan to become one myself. But it has had the effect of viscerally proving—to me, at least—the absurdity of this prohibition. As long as any aspect of the weed business—cultivation, sales, transportation, or consumption—remains illegal, American marijuan

Until recently, it was thought that the Dismal Swamp, which stretches from south Virginia through North Carolina, was a modest settlement at best, and that Maroon communities founded by runaways were rare in United States slavery. But recent archaeology has revealed it was a settlement that was sustained over generations. Literally thousands of peo