Trinity encounters a gangster, with a 9mm, in his electric blue Honda Civic. Fortunately, her limited exposure to gang violence quickly passes as he zooms off into the dusty evening of California’s central valley. Our couriers finally arrive at the Redwood Highway, only to be stopped cold at the Willits Friday Night Street Festival. Protesters come to the rescue of ancient Redwoods threatened by our modern roadways.
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Staying in the same hotels trip after trip heightens the awareness of the staff to a courier who fills with her bags with cold hard cash. Traveling while white, however, brings its own anonymity. Nevada is full of intensity with larger than life bon fires, white knuckle rides, psychotic pioneers, and the amazing Chinese culture.
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Law enforcement uses the latest technologies from the intelligence community, the military and electronic surveillance to catch their targets. Take a cell phone with you on the road and DEA snatches up your emails, texts, photos and contacts. And, worst of all, convenience store clerks are paid bounty hunters in the game between the law and all of us.
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Driving cannabis loads from California to Utah for the better part of 5 years gave Trinity a unique perspective and awareness. Her whiteness cloaked her from the watchful eyes of law enforcement, but she saw how DWB automatically caused people of color to be in the crosshairs of state cops and DEA.
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It’s becoming more obvious that we live in a police state, even if many of us never think the criminal justice system will touch our protected lives. Trinity experienced, 1st-hand, the battle between the federal government’s war on drugs and legalization of marijuana by the states. Ride along, and listen in, as she describes how she, her family, and our nation have become entrenched in the business of criminal justice and the prison industry that now touches the lives of one out of every three Americans.
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