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    LORIEL ALEGRETE

    Oct 05, 2021 3 minutes
    By Addison Herron-Wheeler

    UNFORTUNATELY, THE STORY IS NOTHING NEW WHEN IT comes to America’s War on Drugs: Black folks going to prison for extraneous periods of time over cannabis. But what Loriel Alegrete did when faced with such a situation years ago is something entirely new.

    “The first time I got the calling, I was 13 years old,” she explained to “My older brother got into some trouble, and at 16 years old, they held him until he was 18, with continuations and dismissals and things like that, and they held him

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