Aaron Kase
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Philadelphia, PA, United States
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A Crippled 76-Year-Old Is Rotting in Prison for a Decades-Old Weed Charge
On the lam nearly 25 years for a pot charge in New York, John Forbis was known to his tiny Oregon community as Steve Causey. Then a bum hip forced him to apply for Medicare under his real name. → Read More
A Beginner's Guide to All of the Amazing Fruit in Colombia
How to navigate produce in a country that grows just about everything. → Read More
Friends Don't Let Friends Burn Absinthe
Marc Bernhard, a craft absinthe distiller based in Washington, knowns damn well that the green fairy won't make you hallucinate, and he rails against the popular practice in some bars of lighting the sugar cube on fire. → Read More
How to Avoid Paying Rent When Your Apartment's in Shambles
Landlords can attempt to collect even when your place becomes uninhabitable. Here's what you need to know. → Read More
The White Man Is Breaking His Word Again
New Jersey stripped the Lenni-Lenape tribe of recognition in the state. They're suing to get it back. → Read More
Supervised Injection Sites Could Stop Untold Opioid-Related Deaths
With hundreds of successful examples across Europe, Australia, and Canada, the potential for safe rooms stateside is real. → Read More
You Need to Check Out 'The Disaster Artist' and More This Weekend
Get down with The Black Madonna in Bushwick and witness the best version of Joan of Arc ever committed to film. → Read More
One Stoner Politician's Lonely Quest to Legalize Shrooms
"It would be transformative in such a way I don't even think a person can put into words." → Read More
Op-ed: Ending gerrymandering is fundamental, but Harrisburg doesn't want to hear it
Fixing gerrymandering is one of the most pressing and fundamental repairs we can apply to our faltering democracy, but leaders in our state government are all but refusing to discuss it, and time... → Read More
Essay: Philadelphia students get dirt under their nails producing fresh fruit for their neighborhoods —
In a city where far too many lack access to fresh fruits and vegetables, opportunities for communities to create their own sources of healthy food are invaluable. → Read More
Legal MDMA Therapy Could Be Just a Few Years Away
In a pilot study, 83 percent of subjects no longer met the criteria for PTSD following treatment with the drug. → Read More
Essay: On urban food access, don't forget the voices of youth
We've all heard experts, teachers, professors, politicians, and public health workers weigh in about food access in Philadelphia, but we shouldn't forget about the voices of people most affected... → Read More
When Is a Judge Too Old to Judge?
Out of more than 1,200 active and senior federal judges, 16 percent will be 80 or older by the end of 2017, and 39 will be at least 90. → Read More
Shrooms Could Be Legalized Sooner Than You Think
Folks in Oregon are looking to put it to a vote in 2020. → Read More
Trump's Pro-Mining Policies Could Devastate the Salmon Industry
Be afraid, lovers of lox. → Read More
Needle Exchanges Are Busier Than Ever Thanks to the Opioid Crisis
Demand has doubled at what is commonly referred to as the largest open-air heroin market on the East Coast. → Read More
This Little Asshole Is Going to Kill 8 Billion Trees in a Decade
"It's become already the most destructive and most costly insect ever to invade North America." → Read More
How Trump Could Make It Easier for Corporations to Screw You Over
Do you know what the Seventh Amendment is? → Read More
Is Philadelphia the Most Corrupt City in America?
Does a jawn shit in the jawn? → Read More
Picking Mushrooms in Poland, and Encountering the Scars of War
A hunt for chanterelles and boletus mushrooms revealed some of the relentless atrocities that scarred Poland throughout the 20th century. → Read More