Art for Justice A small Boston museum helps visitors understand the impacts of America’s drug laws. Located in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, Core Social Justice Cannabis Museum is “a platform for multiple perspectives relating to the defective system of cannabis law in the United States.” Its current exhibition, American Warden—curated by a panel of cannabis activists, writers, and academics—encourages visitors to think about what being incarcerated for using cannabis would be like. Visitors also learn about people whose lives were shattered by US drug laws—many of whom are from 14
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minority or financially disadvantaged communities—and are inspired to consider the irony of today’s highly profitable legal cannabis industry, which disproportionally benefits large corporations. The museum, which opened in March, is also home to a rotating street art exhibit and an exhibit dedicated to illicit cannabis cultivation. Visitors to the museum’s website can submit their own cannabis stories to be considered for use in a future project. corecannabis.org
