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Dope Is Death

Kuwasi Balagoon Center for Economic Democracy and Sustainable Development

939 W. Capitol Street, Jackson, MS 39203

The story of how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, along with fellow Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America in 1973 - a visionary project eventually deemed too dangerous to exist.