"I just don’t want to see it happen to anyone else," Mrs. Takayangi said of her family's experience being imprisoned in a US internment camp during World War II.
The facility, also known as a safe injection center, will be the first in Rhode Island and the only one in the U.S. outside New York City to operate openly.
The case, filed in Federal District Court in Northern California, is unlikely to succeed, given legal precedents regarding foreign policy decisions. But it has energized pro-Palestinian activists.
Officers found reportedly found 40 pounds of psychedelic mushrooms and roughly 25 pounds of marijuana, as well as ammunition, $3,000 in cash, gambling machines, and receipts.