What If Weed Is Sometimes Bad? - Mental Hellth

The vast commercialization of the drug has had unintended consequences.

By Micah Cash Micah Cash is a writer and tutor in New York City. His fiction and essays have appeared in Forever Magazine and The Village Voice and is forthcoming in Aesthetica Magazine, among other publications. You can occasionally find him on Twitter and Substack. Micah is from Tulsa, Oklahoma. For years, the story of marijuana in America was one of moral panic in the media and a cruel, discriminatory carceral regime, a reactionary line from the 1936 propaganda film Reefer Madness to the “war on drugs.” Around 40,000 Americans are in long-term confinement for marijuana offenses, without…

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