graphic novel

Recreational is a graphic novel about the legalization of recreational cannabis in Mexico and the United States. Using the medium of comics and a combination of interviews with experts, personal experiences, and research, I offer a personal and informed view of the need to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes, and how these legal changes remain perfectible in both countries. 

Today, in the face of the decades of harsh criminalization, stigma, and violence brought by the prohibition, legalizing the recreational use of cannabis offers the opportunity to bring reparations for the populations most severely damaged by these policies—specifically, Black and Latino communities in the United States, and marginalized groups in Mexico.