An influential job awaited Elissa Weimer upon graduation from PennWest California. She was first in her class in criminal justice and a lucrative opportunity was on the table. The offer was from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with which she had previously made an impression with the bureau’s Violent Drug and Gag Squad in Philadelphia […]
An influential job awaited Elissa Weimer upon graduation from PennWest California. She was first in her class in criminal justice and a lucrative opportunity was on the table. The offer was from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with which she had previously made an impression with the bureau’s Violent Drug and Gag Squad in Philadelphia […]
Thailand is planning to tighten its cannabis regulations by banning recreational use by the end of the year while maintaining its legality for medicinal purposes. This decision comes after Thailand led Southeast Asia in legalizing medical marijuana in 2018 and subsequently decriminalizing its recreational use in 2022, a move that saw the rapid emergence of numerous cannabis shops across the nation.
“The day that a child is killed, I think will be the day that things change,” a French mother told news network, TV TF1, from her hometown of Pissevin in Nîmes in March 2021.
Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit documents the social costs and consequences of Mexico's violent drug war. We recently talked to Detroit-born, Haiti-based photographer David Rochkind about his experience photographing a conflict that he says is increasingly "melting two worlds together, making a singular Mexico defined as much by violence and tension as by history and culture."