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Lynn Johnson

Lynn Johnson is a regular contributor to National Geographic. She was a Knight Fellow at Ohio University and teaches at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse.

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Ray Mirzabegian and Arsineh Yaghyaei attend to their daughter Emily as she recovers from a seizure. Los Angeles, CA, April 2018.

The Taboo Medicine

Winter 2023 | Reporting

Many parents know firsthand how cannabis can transform the lives of children with severe illness. Why won’t the legal system listen to them?