This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In early 2023, Alex took a job at Cloud 9, a strip-mall smoke shop off ...

The story of blue raspberry begins in the 1950s, when there were already questions about the safety of FD&C Red No. 2, otherwise known as amaranth. ("FD&C" stands for the federal Food, Drug, and ...