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Thousands of Latinos living in colonias along the U.S.-Mexico border drink water from unsafe private wells and inadequate municipal water systems. Read More »

Most states, including California, don’t require schools test to make sure their drinking water is lead free. The San Ysidro School District is spending $24 million to replace drinking fountains, sinks pipes and faucets at three schools after elevated lead levels were found in the drinking water. Read More »

By Brittan Jenkins, Martin do Nascimento and Tom Blanton California voters legalized medical marijuana nearly two decades ago, but absent statewide regulation, it has spawned a vast network of illegal dispensaries, easy access to marijuana, crime and wide disparities over how businesses are monitored – if they are at all. In some parts of California, law enforcement officials have aggressively ... Read More »

As individual states legalize medical marijuana without federal guidance, they are left to make their own rules. That's left patients with patients with different, even contradictory, laws depending on where they live. Read More »