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Becoming an abortion sanctuary What does the reversal of

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departments 7 The Anderson Files: Colorado’s backstory to court’s EPA gutting 9 Letters: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 15 Astrology: by Rob Brezsny 17 Overtones: Multi-instrumentalist Cautious Clay follows his intuition toward high acclaim 19 Art and Culture: Denverite Wendy Fox wins the Colorado Book Award for literary fiction 20 Events: What to do when there’s nothing to do 22 Film: Timeless problems timely in ‘Olga’; plus, the Boulder Environmental/Nature/Outdoors Film Festival 23 Savage Love: Quickies 27 Drink: A whiskey-loving, working mom with roots tapped in ‘shine stills 29 Cuisine: Functional fungi weds heirloom cacao BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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Publisher, Fran Zankowski Circulation Manager, Cal Winn EDITORIAL Editor-in-Chief, Caitlin Rockett News Editor, Will Brendza Food Editor, John Lehndorff Interns, Ben Berman, Rebecca Rommen Contributing Writers: Dave Anderson, Emma Athena, Rob Brezsny, Michael J. Casey, Shay Castle, Angela K. Evans, Mark Fearer, Jodi Hausen, Karlie Huckels, Dave Kirby, Matt Maenpaa, Sara McCrea, Rico Moore, Adam Perry, Katie Rhodes, Dan Savage, Alan Sculley, Will Matuska, Tom Winter SALES AND MARKETING Market Development Manager, Kellie Robinson Account Executives, Matthew Fischer, Carter Ferryman Mrs. Boulder Weekly, Mari Nevar PRODUCTION Art Director, Susan France Senior Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman CIRCULATION TEAM Sue Butcher, Ken Rott, Chris Bauer BUSINESS OFFICE Bookkeeper, Regina Campanella Founder/CEO, Stewart Sallo Editor-at-Large, Joel Dyer July 7, 2022 Volume XXIX, number 43 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holds-barred journalism, and thought-provoking opinion writing.

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Colorado’s backstory to court’s EPA gutting

by Dave Anderson

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he Supreme Court is staging a counterrevolution against social progress, rewriting laws and twisting the Constitution to please a right-wing minority with highly unpopular rulings on choice, guns, church and state, and the environment.

The Court issued a ruling in West Virginia v. EPA, which undermined the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to meaningfully regulate greenhouse gases. The New York Times reported that the case “is the product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by Republican attorneys general, conservative legal activists and their funders, several with ties to the oil and coal industries, to use the judicial system to rewrite environmental law, weakening the executive branch’s ability to tackle global warming.”

The ruling has a Colorado back story.

Justice Neil Gorsuch is the son of Anne Gorsuch, who was Ronald Reagan’s highly controversial first EPA administrator. She slashed the agency’s budget by nearly a quarter

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and bragged that she had reduced the thickness of the book of clean water regulations from six inches to a half inch.

A war broke out within the EPA. She appointed flunkies from the polluting industries the EPA was supposed to be regulating.

She chose Rita Levelle, a PR executive with a military contractor which had potentially massive hazardous waste liabilities. After her appointment, many of the EPA’s top scientists and administrators immediately quit. Levelle would later be convicted on charges of lying to Congress, and spent six months in federal prison.

Environmental reporter Jeffrey St. Clair notes: “Gorsuch’s downfall came after congressional investigators requested records of her warm chats with companies under EPA jurisdiction. At the advice of a White House counsel, Gorsuch refused to turn over the documents and was duly cited with contempt of Congress. When she was called to defend herself, the Reagan justice department declined to accompany her to the Hill. Gorsuch resigned in disgust.”

Gorsuch was a member of a team from a little noticed state. A Sept. 6, 1981 New York Times article proclaimed “The ‘Colorado Mafia’ Puts Its Stamp on The Government.”

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ton, D.C. were “surprised at the number However, Buchanan won the Senof appointments given to Colorado ate nomination by mounting a petition Republicans.” drive in defiance of Coors and other top James G. Watt became Interior Republicans. She was also pro-choice Secretary, Bob Burford was tapped to on abortion and supported the Equal become director of the Bureau of Land Rights Amendment.

Management and Anne Gorsuch headGorsuch wasn’t the most well-known of ed up EPA. the “Colorado MaSchmidt said fia.”That distinction the trio “chosen would go to James to oversee the Watt who, as interimanagement or secretary, oversaw and protection of nearly 500 million natural resources, acres of federal land. public lands and He had headed environment Coors’ Mountain were ideological States Legal Founand it’s widely soulmates: fiercely dation, a “public conservative interest” group that believed that the man beproponents of less had intervened on Federal intervenbehalf of energy hind the scenes was none tion, more power developers seeking to state and local to open public land other than Joseph Coors. governments and to private developa freer hand for ment. private enterprise.

As Interior Indeed, the three were quickly dubbed Secretary, Watt proposed the sale of ‘’the Colorado mafia’’ and it’s widely 30 million acres of public lands to believed that the man behind the scenes private companies, said corporations was none other than Joseph Coors, should manage national parks, refused the conservative brewer from Golden, to enforce the national strip mining Colo., who is one of Mr. Reagan’s closlaws and drastically underpriced the est confidants.” sale of publicly owned coal resourcSchmidt found that there were es (short-changing taxpayers $28.9 many Colorado Republicans who “fabillion according to one study). vored by Mr. Coors” dispersed throughA joke circulated in corporate out the federal government. However, suites: How much power does it take to Coors quashed the appointment of one stop a million environmentalists? One Colorado Republican, Mary Estill BuWatt. chanan, who was going to become the Yet Watt left office in disgrace. A head of the Federal Trade Commission gigantic climate action movement arose.

(FTC). Coors called the White House We still have a democracy, however and she was out. flawed, and we can vote bastards out of Buchanan was the state’s secretary office. But time is short. of state from 1974 to 1983. She was the This opinion column does not necessarRepublican nominee for U.S. Senate in ily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

1980 but lost to incumbent Gary Hart.

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THE THREE WERE QUICKLY DUBBED “THE COLORADO MAFIA”

DEFINING ‘CRIMINALIZATION OF HOMELESSNESS’ As I find myself agreeing with the term ‘Criminalization of Homelessness,’ I wanted to explain the term, given that an LTE in the previous issue of Boulder Weekly had questioned it. The Boulder camping ban ordinance specifically states that it is illegal to use “any cover or protection from the elements other than clothing” on any city property. This specific iteration of the camping ban was enacted by the City Council last year, so it is possible that someone who was a homeless camper before then did not experience this sort of criminalization. And, to be clear, this is something that targets the homeless. Not explicitly, but it is clear that people who do not actually have housing are more likely to have to camp on public property.

If you are homeless, your choices as I understand them are: to be in a shelter (if they have space, which isn’t always the case); or, if that has been rejected for any number of valid reasons, to live on public property, that is, to camp. Of course, Boulder has implemented a successful housing-first approach to deal with homelessness, but the system takes time to work, and people always need to exist somewhere.

Now, we as a community of Boulderites should reconsider whether it is a good idea to criminalize homelessness in this manner. What do we hope to achieve? If it is to reduce homelessness, then the data suggests camping bans are not helpful here. Outreach and encouragement to use support services are definitely needed, but I don’t think life as a camper is comfortable enough to necessitate the use of punishment as a disincentive. If, however, as I suspect, the goal is to suppress the constant reminder of the inequality of our society, then camping bans make sense after all.

I encourage the reader to weigh these

priorities.

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Reviewer Jill Murphy:

FIREWISE The large wildfires we’ve been experiencing in Colorado and across the West— threatening our homes and risking the lives of residents and firefighters—are the result of high temperatures and drought made worse by climate change, coinciding with high winds. And the two most important actions we can take in response are to: 1.

Make homes “Firewise.” 2. Preserve our carbon-storing forests.

Appallingly, Sen. Bennet, Sen. Hickenlooper, and Rep. Joe Neguse are spending $3.3 billion in taxpayer dollars (under the 2021 infrastructure bill) that could fund Firewise programs to instead cut down our National Forests under the guise of “wildfire risk reduction.”

A quick glance at any number of studies shows that logging forests cannot prevent the large fires that menace our communities—again, the byproduct of hot temperatures, dry conditions, and high winds. To the contrary, logging can actually dry out forests by opening stands to sunlight and wind, and even spread flames faster. Yet right now, 3.5 million acres of your Front Range public lands are on the chopping block under this fraudulent scheme that degrades natural ecosystems, worsens climate change, and provides a false sense of security that endangers the homes and lives of Coloradans.

If you value human life and the natural world, please contact your Congressional delegation and demand that they stop wasting your taxes on logging our living climate buffers and instead put every dollar into making our communities Firewise.

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tion contest. We took great joy in reading the nearly 100 reader-submitted entries.

We chose the 13 submissions you see here by stripping the author’s name from each entry, creating a blind scoring process for the three editors who then assigned a score score of 10 or higher. We only learned of the winning identities after tallying the scores, which is why you’ll see some writers appear more than once in the list of winners. As always, we wish we could have printed more.

writers for sharing their work with all of us.

RUNNER-UP Red

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Keep Colorado, Colorado

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FINALISTS Loving

by Chris Norris

re-COVID and we’re in the hallway making small talk. The nurse is talking. From our conversation it sounds like she’s a lifelong resident of the state. Good for her. I’m asking her about my sister’s condition and she’s telling me we need to keep Colorado, Colorado. Whatever that means, I’m thinking she’s alluding to folks moving here. I’ll use some profanity and say I’m conservative too, when it comes to my money. Again, the same rhetoric, we need to keep Colorado, Colorado. Yes ma’am, I get where you’re coming from, I’m Navajo, how do you think my ancestors feel?

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t’s two hours into their date and he hasn’t noticed the blood dripping from her knee, even when she bends to pick up her neon green golf ball. It takes her too long to realize that it wouldn’t matter where she was bleeding, he hadn’t looked directly at her since their initial meeting.

So, she tests the theory. As he’s lining up the putt, she gently touches the wound, smears the blood across her left cheek, then starts her phone timer.

At 17 minutes, 22 seconds, he says she has a little lipstick on her face.

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man opens a gray door in the wall. One door among many. He pulls out from the wall a stainless steel-looking table, and there is Ashley. My love. I cannot bear it.

Do I see her blue hand twitching, faintly? I look away, imagining Ashley’s hand touching my own. I turn to the attendant, his eyes wide above his mask, looking down at Ashley. I look back at her, as she slowly sits up. I am mad; I am dreaming. Ashley’s legs swing over the side of the steel table and her feet touch the linoleum.

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Baby Teeth

by Hannah Grip

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y daughter won’t speak to me. It’s been 15 weeks since she answered my Sunday-afternoon calls.

Sunday afternoon now, I sit on my bed and look across the

your home for over three years. It lights up your grimy sleeping bag that has a fresh crisping of frost on it. The food cans are empty. The vodka bottles are empty. The cigarette packs are empty. Your pockets, hopes and dreams are empty. The only memories that play are of loss and regret. The only desires are for alcohol and nicotine. Uncertain when or why or where it started, or how it will end, only that they had said this would happen.

the phone will ring.

Her baby teeth rattle against the glass. The phone does not ring. I take the jar to the toilet and dump the teeth. They make six quick plinks on the water. I hit the handle, and they’re gone.

Then the phone rings. I slide to answer, think of the teeth, and hang up.

After All

by Greg Halbreich

Home Again

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is hands are on my body now, though I do not want them there. Him breathy, chokingly desperate, torn between pleading and demanding. Relentless. And so I relent. After all, he is only a child.

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ou can’t go home again.”

Or so they say.

Alejandro peeked in the old boarded up cantina. He had fond memories of Saturday night dances there. Although only a teenager, Alejandro was allowed to attend--drink a soda-and sit quietly on the sidelines. Mom and dad sure came alive away from their many labors and even little old aunties made sure to doll up-hoping someone would ask them for a dance-their spouses long gone.

Four Winds

by Kate Jonuska

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he spirits traveled as dust devils, bodies dissolved into grains uments: a man clad in black leather from the north; a woman from the east draped in white cotton and strands of shell beads; a boy in turquoise swim trunks with turquoise eyes from the south; and a girl in a sundress from the west, shaking sand from her yellow hair. Joining hands, the spirits became one whirlwind of four colors as they danced the dunes into new shapes and polished the rock monuments they’d danced into existence eons before.

ghostly silhouettes dance on walls and there is a lilting scent of roses in the air.

by Devon Nelson

harlie and I knew the water was cursed, more or less. The rumors

the Lake, boys,” and “Better stay dry!” Of course, we never listened. We were too busy throwing pennies to Death and feigning exorcisms with the Church’s holy water.

After some planning, on the last night of summer we stole my grandfather’s boat to water. Maybe to impress me, maybe as a challenge. Either way, the last thing I saw was the whites of his eyes.

Cousins

by Brianna Suazo

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t least once a week my little cousin ditches class and comes to my job.

hers fell out when she was a toddler.

I ring up her Slurpees and snacks, sometimes “forgetting” to ring up a candy bar or two. I watch her read her library books on the curb and make sure the weirdos stay away from her. Occasionally I compliment her makeup, and she looks down and thanks me quietly.

I think she likes me better as a cashier than she ever would have as a cousin.

HONORABLE MENTIONS What Twenty Bucks Gets

by Chris Norris

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see Mikey walking toward me. I recollect last night, if we had any clashes... Nothing appears. So we say things to each other, parrying back and forth.

Always it’s like this with Mikey.

“Can I borrow 20 bucks? I’ll get you back tonight.”

I’m stunned. But maybe every night is a blackout for him. He doesn’t remember the nights– “ever,” it has been said to me.

I consider that Mikey won’t have the money tonight, probably not tomorrow or the next, that I would be unlikely to see him for several days at least.

“Sure.”

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by Greg Halbriech

n Washington State there is an area called the Scablands. A geological wonder. The ground is torn and rippled. Stone cliffs rise from the pocked, yearning surface. The colors there When I step into the hospital room and see the scarred landscape of my daughter’s arms, all I can think to say is, “They used to think the Scablands were formed over thousands of years. Erosion. Change over time. But they weren’t. They were formed when a glacier broke, and a lake drained, and water rushed

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by Barbra Cohn

fter a harrowing ride through the Himalayas, we awoke to bird songs that hung in the air along with my condensed breath. I needed chai, but the dining room didn’t open for hours. We walked up the road for a glimpse of Kangchenjunga before it disappeared behind the mist. I was startled by a woman-walking tree whose back was parallel to the ground from the weight of leafy branches. She disappeared into the forest as the rising sun illuminated the mountain. We stood silent, meditating on its grandeur, in awe of its majesty, looking at the face of god.

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Becoming an abortion sanctuary

What does the reversal of Roe v. Wade mean for Colorado?

by Rebecca Rommen

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aleeha Aziz was a student in Texas when she found herself pregnant. At the time she didn’t feel ready or able to go through with the pregnancy. Having just moved to the U.S. from Pakistan, she wanted to focus on her studies and on attaining financial stability before starting a family. After becoming pregnant, she struggled to find the right resources to help her as someone who isn’t from this country, and wound up at a crisis pregnancy center—an unlicensed medical facility.

Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) are nonprofit organizations that try to deter women from seeking abortions. They are usually run and/ or funded by socially-conservative Christians and other religious groups. According to Aziz, the employees used pressure and guilt tactics to try and discourage her from terminating her pregnancy. They screened a medically-inaccurate film on abortion, convincing her that abortion pills

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had been banned in Texas because self-managed abortions were “unsafe and dangerous.”

She felt lost and believed that her only choice was traveling out of state. With the financial support of a relative, she came to Colorado Springs, where she obtained the abortion medication and made an informed decision about her future.

Now, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade, more states will effectively or outright ban abortion, undoubtedly drawing pregnant people from around the country as their home states restrict and revoke access to this fundamental right, resolidifying Colorado’s status as a sanctuary state for abortion refugees.

On June 24, the Supreme Court stripped back women’s reproductive rights by decades. The Dobbs v.

Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision holds that the U.S. Constitution does not confer a right to abortion, overruling Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992). In the weeks since, at least 15 states have banned or severely restricted abortion access, and others are soon likely to follow.

In Colorado, abortion access was codified into law earlier in 2022. This state has one of the most liberal approaches to reproductive healthcare, and has always been one of the few places providing lateterm abortions.

Following the Dobbs ruling, Gov. Jared Polis said: “Coloradans do not want politicians making their healthcare decisions. Because of my administration BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

and Democratic leadership in the legislature, Coloradans don’t have to worry because our rights are still protected today despite the unfortunate reality that the U.S. Supreme Court just rolled those freedoms back for millions of Americans in other states. In Colorado, we will continue to choose freedom and we stand against government control over our bodies.

State leadership matters now more than ever and in Colorado we will not retreat to an archaic era where the powerful few controlled the freedoms over our bodies and health decisions.”

Jennifer Driver, who oversees the Reproductive Freedom Leadership Council, says that state legislators are now on the frontlines of the fight for reproductive justice. “There are more legislators who are really committed to expanding and protecting abortion access in their states,” she says. “They will continue to fight this in 2023 and beyond.”

Driver argues that marginalized communities will suffer the most. “This is the first time that the courts have removed a fundamental right, a constitutional right from citizens in this country,” she says. “And we know that Black and brown folks will be more impacted by this decision, because of racism and the way that structural barriers have set up our healthcare system.”

Prior to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health ruling, Colorado was already a sanctuary for out-of-state patients. Dr. Warren Hern founded the Boulder Abortion Clinic in 1973, the year that Roe v. Wade was decided. Known for performing late terminations of pregnancy, Hern has helped women from Colorado and across the country for decades, risking his career and freedom to support them. Threats are continually made against his clinic, and five bullets were fired through the front door in the 1980s. Despite these dangers, Hern remains committed to his patients.

“Women will die using unsafe abortion methods, and that’s the

inevitable consequence of this decision,” Dobbs says. “It’s an intended consequence.”

According to Hern, the people who have fought for the retraction of Roe v. Wade want abortion patients to be punished. He believes that antiabortion legislators “want to prosecute everybody.”

“Under Republicans, we will have an authoritarian, totalitarian, repressive government that prosecutes women for getting pregnant and having abortions,” Hern says.

Michael Belmonte is another Colorado physician who performs abortions. Belmonte trained to be an OBGYN in Indianapolis.

“Being party to all the barriers that my patients experienced in

they’ll be joined by an influx of women desperate for help.

Two years after traveling to Colorado for a medication abortion, Maleeha Aziz found out that the CPC in Texas had lied to her about the legality of abortion pills in Texas.

At that time, she could have skipped the trip to Colorado and saved money by seeking healthcare in Texas, and she says that’s exactly what she did the next time she needed an abortion.

Aziz is now a community organizer for the Texas Equal Access Fund. She works with people seeking and receiving abortions.

“It can be emotionally taxing, but for a lot of people I talk to, abortion was their greatest relief, and they have no regrets,” Aziz says. “And they did not say that it was difficult. They said it was empowering, and it was an easy decision.” As an advocate for self-managed abortions, Aziz argues that while medication abortion is physically safe, what makes it unsafe is prohibition in places like Texas.

“We want that to be a safe option for people if that’s what they prefer.

But the issue is criminalization, especially people of color when they use that method—it’s basically discrimination,” Aziz says.

Earlier this year, Texas resident Lizelle Herrera was arrested for allegedly self-inducing an abortion.

Aziz worries that cases like Herrera’s will be the norm in post-Roe America, as “feticide laws” continue to criminalize pregnant women.

Putting these human rights at risk while prosecuting women like Herrera is evocative of a theocracy, as a conservative Christian shift pushes the Supreme Court to the far right.

To date, no states have enacted laws to ban travel for abortion, but anti-abortion politicians are working to change that. In Missouri, a bill is pending that would warrant civil lawsuits if an abortion were administered out of state.

“We knew this was coming, ” says

“WOMEN WILL DIE USING UNSAFE ABORTION METHODS.

That’s the inevitable consequence of this decision. It’s an intended consequence.”

—Warren Hern, physician and founder of Boulder Abortion Clinic Indiana only further emboldened me to provide abortion care,” Belmont says.

Indiana is expected to ban abortions in the wake of the supreme court’s decision.

Increasingly, Colorado will become an outlier in the Mountain West (and across the country) as “trigger laws” take effect. Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas and Oklahoma have trigger laws in place that will effectively ban abortion after the state’s attorney general, governor or other official certifies the overturning of Roe. Idaho, Tennessee and Texas’s trigger laws would ban abortion just 30 days after the Supreme Court’s decision. And Kentucky, Louisiana and South Dakota are set up to ban abortion immidiately following the decision.

Many patients were already coming to Colorado to access reproductive healthcare. But now,

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Neta Meltzer, the Regional Director of Communications and Marketing for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, “and we’re still shocked.”

According to Meltzer, current abortion care wait times are up to two weeks—which she says is too long. What’s more, the strain on reproductive healthcare in Colorado will have ripple effects on other healthcare services, such as STI testing or birth control provisions.

To meet these rising demands, Meltzer says, “We have a patient assistance fund that folks are supporting generously in our community that will help people access their care financially, handle their travel, and support them in whatever they need in order to make it to their appointment here.

“One thing we’re hearing from patients is that they’re grateful that they’re able to get care with us, and that we’re still open and that care is still available,” she says. “And that’s something that’s really striking if you step back and think about it, because no one should have to be grateful for access to reproductive healthcare, it’s a human right, and it should be available; it shouldn’t depend on where you live or how much money you make.”

Even in Colorado, where safe abortions are secured, the ruling wreaked havoc. According to Meltzer, Planned Parenthood is overwhelmed with people seeking information and appointments.

“Our call center had an hour-anda-half wait time on Monday (after the Dobbs ruling), because patients were calling in trying to figure out if their appointments were still available to them, if they could still get the care they wanted,” she says. “People are confused, and people are concerned.”

She reflects on how we’re all living through historical events—and not in a good way.

“Museums have reached out to us asking for our posters and pamphlets, because they’re documenting this moment for the history of this country,” she says.

Savita Ginde is the interim healthcare strategy executive at Boulder Valley Women’s Health Center (BVWH). She says the center has been building capacity by working with other clinics to ensure patients can access care both within and outside of the state. l

“We’re really trying to connect all the dots to make sure that we can help patients access the care they need,” she says. To meet demand, Colorado clinics will have to boost staffing, training, and partnership.

Belmonte states that clinics across Colorado have experienced an influx of out-of-state patients since Texas’ restrictions in September, and that local clinics are expanding their services to accommodate this increase.

“Unfortunately, there are only so many patients that we can care for, and our clinics have experienced increased wait times for appointments, meaning that we are caring for people at later gestational ages, both coming from outside of Colorado and even for our patients here.”

Meaning a lot of patients won’t be able to access care in time, and will have to carry their pregnancies to term—unless they seek illegal and unregulated treatment outside of a medical setting.

The Denver Party for Socialism & Liberation is calling on Gov. Polis to act now to make Colorado an abortion sanctuary, as Colorado is about to become the nearest source of abortion services for an additional 1.2 million people of child-bearing age from nearby states. To meet increased need and protect patients and providers, the party wants Polis to issue executive orders providing emergency funding to abortion clinics, prohibiting state entities from cooperating in the investigation or prosecution of abortion recipients or providers, and banning the sharing of medical records with law enforcement.

While he remains weary about the future, Belmonte is not entirely hopeless for it: “Access to abortion and the lives of people with uteruses will only get worse as more and more states move to ban abortion, but I have hope that the voices of the people will be heard.

We have a unique opportunity to create legislation that will go beyond what the frameworks of Roe and Casey allowed. But I have no doubt in my mind that many people will be harmed before that day comes.”

To support access to abortion, visit National Abortion Federation’s Abortion Fund (prochoice.org) as well as Colorado’s Cobalt Abortion Fund (cobaltadvocates.org).

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sk any Denver-based rapper to describe the local state of their genre and, more times than not, the answer will fall somewhere in the vicinity of, “High in talent, low in representation.”

Consequently, a geographic triangle linking Boulder and Colorado Springs to Denver’s beating heart has local hip-hop betting on itself and leaning on its pieces for support. Success hinges on two

where they got their synchronization—shit, bro, it’s always been there.”

Familiarity is key to collaboration, and Gragg and Mehari go way back—back before the music was even something to be taken seriously. Mehari recalls their days in Boulder, saying, “We’ve done it at the same time because we’ve been roommates. We’d

were at one point in time—opening up for bigger artists. If you got it, you got it.”

When we connect for our phone interview, GUNNAR AUTTERSON Gragg has had a tough week: He’s stuck at the gate of an airport in Las Vegas, battling against

now, Amone Gragg, known in the metro area as Crash_G, knows he’s got to get back on the horse where consistency is concerned.

“I haven’t been on a routine in the last few

to be back at DIA in a day to head West. Between police reports, a ride home, unpacking, repacking and taking off again, Gragg locks in to a discussion about his musical career as naturally as he locks in on beats. Gragg’s upcoming project—an untitled EP with big features and even bigger ambitions—will leave no stone unturned.

Confidence and consistency as told by Crash_G

The budding emcee is ready to lock back in

Gragg says, “but at the same time, I feel I’m really sticking my toes in the water with this project.” Gragg doesn’t want to fall into the trap of being pinned into one style. He wants to be on a big enough spectrum that he’ll “make some country or pop shit if it sounds dope.”

Gragg doesn’t reveal too much about his soon-to-come EP, but makes one pocket of the creative process clear—total control.

Denver and the surrounding area sees nearly

by Carter Ferryman months,” Gragg admits. But he’s starting to get back into it.

The California-turned–Boulder-turned-Denver his Colorado tenure. Even if he was just having fun with it, the release and immediate success of his track “Miss Lady” in 2020 perked up ears in Boulder. From there, Gragg got into a groove: lay down a track, push it to streaming services, catch a wave of digital attention, then perform

Lai—a Boulder artist going by noodleintheand Mehari’s songs as a close collaborator.

But Gragg estimates that 75% of his catalog is homegrown.

Hill-centric shows turned into pop-ups at Denver’s realizing his predominant assets as an artist. First, and most noticeable, is his voice—perhaps the most under-recognized apparatus in any rapper’s toolbelt—a unique mark often overshadowed by traditional discus“It’s smooth, bro,” he says, “the way I talk—having those West Coast ties—is best described as smooth and collected.”

Most young rappers opt to cut through production with commanding, in-your-face delivery. Gragg lets the beat come to him, using calmness as a means

album wise, we want it to be right here in the house.”

The decision to have full control of his biggest EP to date is yet another—and probably the most import-

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be in the basement cooking up beats, trying to rap to shit.” After doing it enough, they knew it worked.

Then there’s the yin to his yang, Eddie Mehari, Gragg has recorded features Mehari. When asked where the dynamic musical connection with Mehari spawned, Gragg says, “That’s like asking the Migos 16

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“It’s a powder keg waiting for its spark,” Mehari says. “Whatever sets it off, there will be a blessing in disguise,” Gragg elaborates, “when that one person Colorado backs them up crazy.”

For a community whose trust and reliance in itself has steadily grown, once the door opens, it’s open. And when that door busts off the hinges, Gragg and Mehari Email: editorial@boulderweekly.com BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

The world is your oyster

Multi-instrumentalist Cautious Clay follows his intuition toward high acclaim

by Angela K. Evans LEEOR WILD

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autious Clay, stage name for multi-instrumentalist and singer Joseph Karpeh, captures the tension of life—his music is laid back yet complex, the lyrics somewhat theoretical yet deeply personal, overall hopeful yet realistic about the world we live in. Karpeh released his debut album Deadpan Love in 2021 to high acclaim, following up with a deluxe version earlier this year. The album, in a lot of ways, lays out Karpeh’s personal philosophy, the way he both sees and interacts with the world around him.

With his latest single “Puffer,” released midJune, Karpeh is returning to the EP format of his earliest work (Blood Type, 2017, Resonance, 2018, and Table of Context, 2019), and planning to release the untitled collection of tracks in September. The format is currently appealing, Karpeh says, and the tracks he’s working moment in time. The new EP is “less moody” and “a little bit quicker” and perhaps a little less dense than his LP, but it still has a level of emotional intensity to it. Something fans have grown accustomed to in Karpeh’s work, and something the singer says, “I think it’s always gonna be an element of my music ... I think it’s still dealing with a lot of palpable ideas in terms of the world and relationships.”

A play on words stemming from Muhammad Ali’s given name of Cassius Clay, Karpeh chose his stage name back when he was DJing and producing, and the name just sort of stuck. He doesn’t see it as much as an alter-ego, but a way of incorporating vulnerability into his interaction with his audience, while staying true to himself. There’s a certain independence to his creativity, a way of documenting his perspective at different time periods in his life while trusting his intuition to guide him along the way.

Raised in Cleveland, Karpeh grew up around music, both parents employing tastes that introduced him to a variety of music most of his peers weren’t privy to. He was also fortunate to have inspiring teachers who helped shape his musical prowess. He with the instrument while watching a snake charmer play one in the cartoon Aladdin.

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ment becomes rhythmic, as the player hums and vocal percussion typical of beatboxing along with “I think seeing him do that was super inspiring for me,” Karpeh says. “I could just make beats and play The bond Karpeh formed with Patillo was formative—the persistence, encouragement and talent allowed Karpeh to pave his own way with his music, transitioning into the saxophone, guitar, base, keys, drums, and eventually vocals.

“I just never thought there were any limitations,” he says. “I think that was the biggest impression that [Patillo] made on me—just the fact that the world really is your oyster and it doesn’t have to be this particular genre or particular thing. Do what feels like works for you ... I think that was always really a big part of why I kept putting music out and I kept trying Now, Patillo and Karpeh are both based in Brooklyn, and the two recently reconnected, swapping also where 29-year-old Karpeh has lived for the last six years, occupying a mansion with anywhere from nine to 15 roommates at any given time. He actively chooses the communal life over a solitary one, even as his musical career has taken off.

Communal living never feels like a chore or gets uncomfortable. He says it’s taught him not to take things personally, to roll with the punches while also being direct and communicative about how each person affects the rest.

“It makes me a better writer, a much better person, and I think it’s helped me connect to my audience even deeper,” he says. “And it’s allowed me to just tap into a different way of thinking.”

Karpeh attaches meaning to the way the music makes him feel, as opposed to the particular sound it Part R&B, part soul, part indie rock and everything in between, Karpeh has writing credits with artists as varied as Taylor Swift to John Legend, in addition to his own body of work. Throughout it all, he has evolved as an artist both in terms of belief in his work creativity itself rather than any one genre. of artists,” he says. “I’ve just sort of been myself this whole time.”

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How to escape the office and never go back Denverite Wendy Fox wins the Colorado Book Award for literary fiction with short story collection about corporate lives

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aking the suffering of working for years in corporate America and turning the material into an award-winning book is the kind of revenge

But when Wendy Fox found out her book, What If We Were Somewhere Else for the Colorado Book Awards, she tempered her

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The book follows a group of characters who are

Many of the pieces explore the lives of the work-

as they experience fraught friendships, bad bosses, losing their jobs and other common torments of the

Lake City in the middle of the night to bring a friend

Once the book was published, Fox quickly found out how universal readers found the settings and

Fox masterfully inhabits each character, using differing points of view and voices to make each story

wanted to tell me about their absolutely terrible bosses Fox worked for many years in the marketing department of a technology company, and drew upon

the groundwork for the rest of the book via a list of

swirling of violent winds, the whoosh of air being displaced, but we all knew it was only the HVAC, which we pronounced in what we believed to be the expert way, H-vack, and so we did not worry about it in

temporary culture of people living on the Front Range, She hits a high note with her prose in the story “When You Talk About the Weather,” when she skewers the tendency of people here to be armchair

Fox’s top 5 books set in and around Colorado Bratwurst Haven, Rachel King day about these Front Range sausage factory workers Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning, Liz Prato Prato offers an insightful look at the cultural forces that Winter Counts, David Heska Wanbli Weidan

have to talk about the weather, because we live in Fox was slightly ahead of the trend of people working from home that began during 2020 and the start of the

Out Front The Following Sea, Leah Angstman A deeply researched historical novel from a writer based in Louisville, this book is, at its heart, a story of Trapline, Mark Stevens The third in an excellent series from Colora-

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Slay the Runway 2022

7 p.m. Friday, July 8, Roser ATLAS Center, Black Box Experimental Studio (B2 level), Boulder Slay the Runway is a fashion design, performance, and sewing community for LGBTQIA+ teens. This professionally produced runway show is the culmination of a two-week intensive workshop. Participants work with make-up artists, a DJ and choreographers to present their looks and celebrate their identities. This onenight-only event will feature stunning fashion and drag performers, and be hosted

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‘How am I gonna deal with all this?’

Timeless problems timely in ‘Olga’; plus, the Boulder Environmental/Nature/Outdoors Film Festival is back in-person

by Michael J. Casey

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ifteen-year-old Olga (Anastasiia Budiashkina) isn’t sure where she belongs. Her mother is a Ukrainian journalist covering the unrest and revolution building in Kyiv. The year is 2013, and things are getting testy in the streets and harder for Olga to ignore and mom to protect her. Olga’s a gymnast training for the Euro competition—the uneven bars are her métier—and she’s good. Real good. So good that it might behoove her to jump ship from the Ukrainian team for Switzerland. Olga’s father, long

renounce her Ukrainian nationality. Ukraine doesn’t allow for dual citizenship, which is a laugh considering how cozy the Ukrainian leaders are with the Russian Federation. It’s the classic “do as I say, not as I do” on an international level.

That’s not the only irony swirling around Olga. Written by Elie Grappe and Raphaëlle Desplechin, with Grappe in the director’s chair, Olga recounts one political to neutral Switzerland for better opportunities shouldn’t be lost on the audience, nor should the old “shut up and dribble” adage where athletes are preferred when they void themselves of politics. In one instance, a member of the Ukrainian gymnastics team— not Olga—attempts to start a revolutionary chant before being physically removed from scene, and the match resumes. Yes, the meet takes place in Europe, and the events of the Euromaidan are probably on the minds of everyone present. But we’ve come here for sport, they think. Let’s leave politics to the politicians.

Alas, that’s never the case. Employing a camera that follows but never leads, Grappe and cinematographer Lucie Baudinaud haunt Olga as she tries to block out the reality back home while landing her routine for the judges. And though Olga happy ending—the Maidan Uprising was a success, and the movie wrapped production before the 2022 Russian invasion—it might be impossible to watch the events unfolding in Olga and not think of the war currently underway in Kyiv.

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Boulder ENOFF opens with the immersive documentary River—narrated by Willem Dafoe and scored by Jonny Greenwood—and will screen an additional 10 features and eight shorts over four days. There’s lots of good stuff to see, but make time for Sara Dosa’s stunning documentary Fire of Love, about French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft. Their dedicaON THE BILL: The Boulder Environmental/Nature/Outdoors Film Festival, July 14-17, all screenings at the Dairy Arts Center (Boedecker and Gordon Gamm Theaters). Passes and tickets are on sale at thedairy.org.

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BY DAN SAVAGE Q: Gay dude here. What the fuck is up with monkeypox? Do I need to be worried?

A: Yes, you do. I tried to raise the alarm about monkeypox on the May 24, 2022, episode of the Savage Lovecast, back when there were 100 cases in 15 countries, all of them among gay and bi men. Now there are more than 5,000 cases all over the world, and almost all of them—more than 99% of cases—are among gay and bi men.

“Right now, it’s behaving very much like an STI—and almost all of the cases have been among men who have sex with men,” said Dr. Ina Park, a professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and Medical Consultant at the Centers for Disease Control Division of STD Prevention.

Monkeypox, Dr. Park explains, is the milder, gentler cousin to smallpox, and is spread by skin-to-skin contact or through respiratory droplets.

“But anyone who comes into close contact with someone who has monkeypox could catch it,” said Dr. Park. “And unlike other STIs which don’t live for very long outside the body, monkeypox can live for weeks on infected clothing, bedding, and other surfaces—think dildoes, slings, fetish gear—and barriers such as condoms worn over the penis or inside the rectum will protect those areas, but they don’t prevent transmission to other exposed parts of the body. If you notice red painful bumps anywhere on you or your partner’s body— especially the genital/anal area—or if you are exposed to monkeypox, get checked out right away. The sooner you get vaccinated, the better. Check out some resources for monkeypox here.” (And follow Dr. Park on Twitter @InaParkMd.) OK, that was a quickie question but a long answer. Now onto quickier-quickies.

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involve throwing pitchers of iced tea overboard. According to the Tea Association of the U.S.A., we drink 85% of our tea iced, a glaring anomaly in a hot-tea world.

Most iced tea fans end up sipping a chilled beverage made from ready-to-use concentrates or are brewed from tea bags whose powdered contents have sat on the shelf for eons.

A few years back my taste buds were employed for a tea industry project.

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I sought counsel from Boulder-born Ku Cha House of Tea, which offers more than 170 loose teas and blends, served hot or iced. Owners Rong Pan quiet, glass-ceilinged tea room at Ku Cha’s Pearl Street Mall location.

“It can be 20 degrees outside and people in Boulder will still drink tea iced,” says Pan, smiling in amazement. When she was growing up in China, she says she never saw anyone drink tea iced.

Pan showed me critical steps in doing iced tea right as she brewed a pot.

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Technically, any beverage that doesn’t contain tea leaves—like Celestial Seasoning’s Red Zinger or Sleepytime—is a “tisane,” but the technique is identical. Pan talks tea as she brews a pot of Ku Cha’s caffeine-free Capetown rooibos “tea” and fruit blend.

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“I can get down on corn whiskey at certain times of year. I don’t mind a little moonshine,” Young says with a laugh.

“It’s probably not my every day, but a corn whiskey that’s made well… maybe it makes you feel a little backwoods but I’m from Montana, I can get into that.”

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“There’s so many different styles out there, it’s good to try even if it’s not your preferred style. It’s always fun to try and see what people are doing,” Young says. “You can always give a good nod to whiskey even if it’s not your style and appreciate it for what it is.”

Sampling whiskey is part of the job for Young, co-owner and sales manager for Abbott & Wallace Distilling. Even before her husband, John Young, started the distillery with his friend and business partner, H.K. Wallace, Young had a deep affection for whiskey and a foot planted in Colorado’s whiskey business as a sales rep for Vapor Distillery.

Whiskey-making goes deep into Young’s roots.

During Prohibition, her family were moonshiners. When her great uncle went to jail, her great aunt took over the stills.

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been a part of so many other industries, they just haven’t had the opportunity to show what they’ve done.

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and celebrating their wedding.

Ready for a renewed focus on the family business, Young left Vapor Distillery to help build sales By her own account, most of the help was from the sidelines while she cared for their 6-month-old daughter, Young says. It was mostly spreading word of mouth, helping a little with distribution and cheering on her hushad a corn whiskey and a sugar beet rum, not the main movers on shelves,” Young says. has changed and evolved. Hours on the road making sales calls and deliveries to Denver and beyond aren’t conducive to parenting kids with medical complications, so sticking close to home made more sense. Still helping manage sales, Young now also takes on event and party planning at the Longmont tasting room.

“It’s been really fun. I love working with people to throw parties and make it a fun experience. It taps into

that hospitality that I love to share with people,” she says.

Beyond the sales and social side of the distillery, Young says she does help on the stills now and then.

She doesn’t have a background in distilling, she explains, but she’s spent enough time around the stills to know a thing or two. Occasionally she’ll watch the stills, but she also gets called in to help taste when the spirit cuts are being made.

Spirits come off the still in three parts: heads, hearts and tails, with the hearts being the eventual drinkable part. Young says women have a leg up when it comes to amusing. The heads of a spirit distillation are made up of acetone, a key solvent in nail polish remover.

“Obviously there are men who love to get their nails done, but women are a little more sensitive to nail polish remover,” she explains. “I think oftentimes we can tell the difference between the hot smell of a spirit and a solvent reminiscent of cleaning off my nail polish.”

The tasting goes beyond cuts fresh off the still and into products coming out of the barrel, she says.

Being part of the team that tests the whiskey is a part of the job she’ll always enjoy, especially once the spirit fills a glass.

As a whiskey-lover, Young is looking forward to the continued growth of the industry and the variety that will come with it. Though Kentucky bourbon rose to prominence after Prohibition, Young sees the spirits world Colorado.

“Just because you’re used to a Kentucky bourbon doesn’t mean these other whiskies are lesser,” Young says. “They’re a beautiful expression of the area they’re coming from, if they’re made well.”

Young is humble about her role in the distillery, but highlights the continuing importance of women in distilling, especially with retaining industry stalwarts and building up roles for new women, whether in sales or at the stills.

“It’s really important for us to support each other as women in this industry and encourage each other to move forward in those roles,” Young says, “no matter how different they may look.”

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he pool rippled between us. The sound of water lapping its sides was the only noise as I stared at the stranger and pondered his question.

“Do you want to smoke a bowl?”

Under any normal circumstances, the answer wouldn’t have taken a second thought. I wanted to. However, circumstances were anything but normal: it was 5:03 a.m., I hadn’t slept and was still drunk from

set you up; they’d try to sell you weed, tell you to step into an alley-way, exchange money for a bag of Thai basil and BAM! They had you. Locked up in an Indonesian prison, shoulder to shoulder with all manner of criminals.

I didn’t want any part of it. I’d denied every offer all week long. I’d made it this far. But here I was, on the edge of this pool staring at a man I’d just met who’d started chatting from across the water as we both ate drunken early morning pizzas. He’d just gotten a tattoo. I’d just gotten a tattoo. He was a local. I was a foreigner. Why not share our meal together?

And, hell, while we’re at it, “Do you want to smoke a bowl?”

I considered the consequences. I thought about life locked up abroad, WILL BRENDZA about my mother and my father and my girlfriend back home. I thought about freedom and all the life I’d miss out on if I were here, growing old in an Asian prison.

But then again, this guy wasn’t trying to sell me weed. Right? He just wanted to smoke it with me. We’d both be party to this meager crime.

“Sure,” I replied after a moment. “I

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hour and a half.”

No problem, he said. In fact, he’d drive me to the airport himself.

It seemed like a good deal: Free a long night out, my plane was leaving in less than two hours, and I was in Bali, Indonesia, a part of the world where cannabis isn’t just frowned upon—it’s persecuted to the most extreme extent of the law.

I was on the tail end of a week-long trip, riding motorbikes, hiking volcanoes, meeting friends, drinking Bintang, and nursing hangovers on busy beaches—all the tourist stuff. I’d come from Australia, where I’d been thoroughly warned about using cannabis in Indonesia.

“Don’t mess with it while you’re there,” I’d been cautioned again and again. Simple possession in Indonesia

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picked my pizza up and walked over, sitting beside him.

“Will.”

We ate pizza. We talked. He packed a couple of bowls full of Indonesian ditch weed and eventually, when we were stoned, our plates were empty and the second bowl torched, he pulled a joint out of the baggie. “What do you say we smoke this while I drop my friends off?” he gestured towards his room. “Then I’ll take you to the airport.”

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tiny car, dropped them off several blocks away and then smoke curling up around his face. He inhaled. He passed it to me.

“What do you think I do here, Will?”

The question caught me off guard. “Uhh,” I searched for an answer as I hit the joint. “Do you sell weed?”

He laughed, taking the joint from me. “No,” he looked amused. “Look there,” he pointed with his chin at a model Ducati motorcycle on the dashboard.

“You sell motorcycles?”

Again he laughed. He hit the joint, his face looking skeletal as he inhaled. “Behind the Ducati.”

I leaned over, curious, and suddenly my blood ran cold. There, perfectly hidden out of sight was an Indonesian police badge gleaming in the sun.

A moist hand cinched around my wrist. I looked up at leaned toward me, smoke pouring from his nostrils and I shrank away in terror.

“I’m like the DEA for my country,” he sneered. “And you’re my bitch, Will.” ping and somehow rolled out of the vehicle. I got to my could see, jumping in.

“Where to?” stopping the taxi with his badge. Then he was opening the door, grabbing me. I screamed. I rolled out the other down the beach, through alleyways, back to my hotel for my pack, and immediately to the airport. so relieved to feel a plane’s tires leave the ground.

It was a close call—a brush with the law that could have had an ugly ending. And one that taught me an imaround cannabis, we’ve made an awful lot of progress.

Not so long ago, cannabis laws here weren’t so different from Indonesia’s. And that is certainly something to celebrate.

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