“We thought that these four lawsuits that we filed this week really showcased the problem of what it’s like to be a Black person in Portland, Oregon,” Jason Kafoury says.
“You don’t want to make someone decide whether they’re going to plead guilty, on a murder, thinking that the trial is controlled by supernatural beings.”
Cannabis-assisted introspection doesn’t necessarily require astro traveling; plenty of low-THC or nonpsychotropic cultivars can ease users into a meditative state.
“I have friends who live in Alabama and Texas and Tennessee. And they text me all the time and say, ‘How are you raising your kids there?’ Because it’s all they see in the news.”