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Social Justice

Building a Legal Marijuana Industry From the Ground Up

Washington's Initiative 502 legalized pot across the state, but provided only a few guidelines for how to produce, process, and retail the drug. What regulations will lawmakers put in place—and will they convince black market users to switch to a new, regulated industry?

Vince Beiser

Social Justice

Soap Operas Can Save the World

Melodramas promoting literacy and family planning? Tune in next week.

Kevin Charles Fleming

Social Justice

The Merry Pranksters Who Hacked the Afghan War

It was a dark time in a long, drawn-out war. Afghanistan was festering with resentment. The Pentagon brass were desperate. It was the kind of last-ditch moment when authorities start throwing an era's weirdest ideas at its most hopeless bureaucratic mistakes.

Brian Calvert

Social Justice

On the Upside

Introducing the July/August 2013 issue of Pacific Standard.

Maria Streshinsky

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Conference Call: What’s Happening in July and August—and Why It Matters

From Rust, Regeneration, and Romance to The Global Crime Scene: Crime Narratives Beyond Borders, academic gatherings you should be aware of.

Pacific Standard Staff

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Datebook: What’s Happening in July and August—and Why It Matters

From the Twelfth Annual World UFO Day to the Running of the Bulls, events you should be aware of.

Pacific Standard Staff

Social Justice

The Upside of Trauma

Worries about post-traumatic stress have become a stock part of the media narrative surrounding tragedies like Boston and Newtown. And resilience is supposedly the best we can hope for in the face of adversity. But what if there's a third option? The story of one mass shooting, and the surprising tug of post-traumatic growth.

Mark Obbie

Social Justice

The Gays Are (Finally) All Right

Seminal research that changed how we think about homosexuality—one step at a time, over the past century.

Pacific Standard Staff

Social Justice

The Problem With Psychiatry, the ‘DSM,’ and the Way We Study Mental Illness

Psychiatry is under attack for not being scientific enough, but the real problem is its blindness to culture. When it comes to mental illness, we wear the disorders that come off the rack.

Ethan Watters