Sabrina’s Story

Around 2009, Robin signed up for the newsletter of an organization called the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). He started getting regular email missives from someone named “Sabrina at NORML,” which he would eagerly devour when they arrived. The newsletter would inform Robin of the progress of various ballot initiatives or legislative acts to legalize medical or recreational weed around the country. From the start Robin was deeply sympathetic. Of all the counterproductive U.S. government policies in his lifetime, Richard Nixon’s 50-year-old War on Drugs and its angry uncle, mass imprisonment, had always seemed like the