HELTER SKELTER: Apathy, drugs and Eddy Lepp at the edge of the world’s murder capital.

Originally appeared in Feb/March 2013 Issue of SKUNK Magazine . It is difficult to fully encapsulate the vast economic and human rights issues surrounding the United States’ longest war—The War on Drugs—because the issues are complex and inextricably interwoven. Pro-marijuana legalization groups often find success as they did in state elections last November, when defining marijuana…

Paranoia and Pollution: Humboldt County and the Battle for Privacy in Post-Drone America.

Full article available in SKUNK Magazine, available early December. Humboldt County is probably the only place in the world where it’s just as likely to shop for groceries alongside a marijuana farmer than it is a corn farmer in Kansas. Marijuana is literally growing everywhere. “Look on Google Earth, they [marijuana gardens] are just there. You don’t have…

CHILD SNATCHERS: How a small Northern California County has manipulated medical marijuana laws and made a lucrative business out of kidnapping children

To make a tax-deductible donation to Daisy and Jayme’s defense visit Green Aid, please also support Daisy’s Lawyer, who is working the case pro-bono, Michael Levinsohn Story and Photographs by Angela Bacca for Skunk Magazine © 2012   “Don’t take my babies!” Daisy Bram wails. Her blood-curdling screams are countered by the Butte County Sherriff…

EDDY LEPP

SKUNK MAGAZINE, APRIL 2011 by Angela Bacca with Eddy Lepp In early October, 2010, I became the second person in two years to visit Eddy Lepp in Lompoc Federal Prison, near Santa Barbara, California. I entered the main corridor, surrendered my ID and took off most of my clothing to be searched. The only items…