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Too: Through days of foreboding, a beam of excellence pierced the haze

This weekend was spent waiting, waiting for the ramp-up of bloodshed to begin. I kept the news, if not on, within arm’s reach.

Waiting for Israel to strike back.

Any observation I make about this moment-defining violence has to be consumed knowing that I see the Palestinians as victims of brutal apartheid. They are in the main victims who did not elect their awful leaders. I also happen to think that Jews are a remarkable variety of human, possibly my favorite. Israel also has terrible leadership, leaders who’ve made doomed policy.

If every Jew in the West who opposes the attack that’s set to jump off—which already may have by the time you read this—were to, loud and proud, say not in my name? Thousands of civilian lives might be saved.

Roughly 2,700 people have been killed in retribution for Hamas dastardliness. That we don’t know who had it coming and who didn’t indicts us as a species.

Now, onto other news…

10 Making a martyr of Lorna McMurray

People close to the happenings within LegalWeedLand know the comics of Box Brown are among the best media tools out there, visual first drafts of weed history. Last week the Philly artist took on the case of 27 year-old Lorna McMurray, an employee of a Florida-based cannabis behemoth named Trulieve. She died making prerolls.

Some of you will recognize Trulieve from the opening installment of A Just and Legal Weed, my CNPA-award-winning series on fairness in the emerging cannabis industry. (Trulieve’s not that into it). In lasts week’s installment, Brown summarized the McMurray case and humanized the worker in deft, swift strokes.
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• According to OSHA records, McMurray underwent cardiac arrest while working as a grinder of flower. She had previously complained about the grind room’s conditions and even been taken by ambulance to the hospital.

• “Is industrialization of pre-rolling joints worth worker death,” Brown asks.

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• What the fuck is psychedelic capitalism? Why, it’s a special issue of The History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals.
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• Twenty-two-year-old Carlo Jiménez is the new Los Angeles Clippers announcer.
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9 Diddy, Tupac’s Death + Occam’s Razor

In my New York years I would read F.E.D.S. magazine. F.E.D.S stood for Finally Every Dimension of the Streets and it featured pictures of top gangstas in prison interspersed with super-raw ’hood narratives. That mag and Black Tail were just about the most authentically ’hood joints that I can remember consuming on anything like a regular basis.

And I’m pretty sure F.E.D.S. is where I read that Sean Combs is a made man. Not made like Dre is because he gave Jimmy Iovine a third act, but actual made, in the Mafia