Cannabis, Immigrants and the ‘In-Between’: The Story of Mogu Magu LA
Witness them together, and it’s immediately clear: Wendy Zeng and Christina Wong have a special bond. They cozily share Zeng’s living room couch as we start our virtual interview, their answers weaving together effortlessly with every question. It’s impossible to deny the pair’s electric chemistry, even though they only met in 2021. By 2022, they […]
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 […]