Intersections + Injustice

New Jersey’s Cannabis Workers Are Rapidly Unionizing

Just months after New Jersey officially launched legal cannabis sales, labor unions are making real progress representing workers. Some of…

July 19, 2022

San Francisco’s New DA Vows to Ramp Up City’s Drug War

Recall District Attorney Brooke Jenkins? That’s what some San Francisco residents are saying, more in hope than expectation, after Mayor…

July 13, 2022

New England “Strike Force” to Target Opioid Prescribers for Prosecution

On June 29, a group of agencies announced the “New England Prescription Opioid Strike Force” (NEPO). It will target physicians,…

July 7, 2022

Dobbs Will Have Dire Consequences for Pregnant People Who Use Drugs

Last month’s Supreme Court decision to strike down Roe v. Wade denied people who can get pregnant one of the…

July 7, 2022

Kansas City Seeks to Resist State-Imposed Police Budget Increase

Missouri Governor Mike Parson (R) signed Senate Bill 678 on June 27 to increase the minimum funding level for the…

July 5, 2022

Mexico’s Abortion Collectives Increase Cross-Border Collaborations

When Perla Martínez took misoprostol to terminate her pregnancy in April of 2017, the only information she had about how…

July 5, 2022

A Pandemic of Anxiety in Prison

For several months, the country's COVID cases have been in a relative downtrend. In the free world, many people can…

July 1, 2022

Win for Law Professors in Key Prosecutor-Accountability Bid

Arthur Applbaum, a prominent Harvard Kennedy School ethics professor, scandalized the legal world in the 1990s when he said that…

June 29, 2022

Win for Pain Patients as SCOTUS Cuts DEA’s Power to Persecute Prescribers

On June 27, the United States Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the government cannot rightfully prosecute prescribers for violating the…

June 28, 2022

Does Gun Control Have to Mean a “War on Guns”?

On June 25, President Biden signed into law the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the bill introduced in the wake of…

June 27, 2022