How a Rikers Sentence Sparked a New Life in Cannabis: The James Adames Story
On a humid summer afternoon in Washington Heights, a teenage James Adames lit up in an alleyway he thought was safe. The ritual was familiar, but so was the risk. At just 16, he was stopped, frisked, and arrested for cannabis. Three nights in jail followed. “It was a very scary experience,” he remembers. What […]