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Cannabusiness unfolds in New Mexico

By Madeline Pukite @maddogpukite

Recreational cannabis storefronts opened on Friday, April 1, nearly a year after the legislation was passed in the roundhouse in Santa Fe during the special session to legalize recreational cannabis.

The bill allows anyone 21 and over in the state to purchase 2 ounces (about 57 grams) of cannabis flower, 16 grams of extract and 800 milligrams of edibles at one time.

Many of the dispensaries in the state that are now able to start recreational sales were strictly medical prior to the new legislation and had to acquire a new license in the past year. Operations manager at Seven Clover dispensary Maxwell Griego said he felt this was not enough time for new dispensaries to get set up because of the amount of capital and resources that are needed to start up, leaving only mostly those with “very deep pockets” able to open when April 1 arrived. “(Existing cannabis businesses) can go out and they can purchase swaths of land and build entirely new cultivation and production facilities.

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The sign outside of Seven Clover, a dispensary in Nob Hill.

Was there enough time for mom and pop (stores), who've always eyed this as a really good opportunity for them?

No, I don't think there was adequate time,” Griego said.

The New Mexico Regulation & Licensing Department has been creating programs and classes to help new cannabis mom and pop shops, and 239 cannabis-related licenses, including for producers, manufacturers and more, have been approved in the past year to non-legacy medical shops, according to deputy superintendent Victor Reyes.

“Our regulatory structure make(s) sure that we were doing the proper education — through seminars, through public outreach — for in-

dividuals that wanted to enter into the recreational market … who were what we consider to be the micro-producers and providing them whatever resources they needed to get into that process,” Reyes said.

Medical patients also remain a priority, with the bill requiring licensees allocate no more than 25% of cultivated cannabis to the medical program.

For Ultra Health dispensary, there are fears of running out of products due to the increased number of eligible consumers in the state.

“So, the big difference between medical and recreational patients is that the medical patients still take full priority. They get to skip the recreational line because it is strictly

The politics, impacts of legalized recreational cannabis and sales

By Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716 New Mexico is one of the most recent states to legalize cannabis recreationally, jumping on the bandwagon as the 17th state to legalize out of 18 so far. This recent move stems from decades-old political movements and increased acceptance of the drug on a local and national level.

“I think over time, the science has evolved in a way and our attitudes have evolved in a way that have created political openings for legalizing marijuana at the state level … Legalization of marijuana has become a fairly popular thing,” said Timothy Krebs, University of New Mexico professor and department chair of political science.

Medical cannabis was legalized in 2007 in New Mexico and then recreationally last summer with large help dating all the way back to Gov. Gary

Johnson’s term from the late ’90s to early 2000s, according to Krebs. The move to legalize also came from seeing others doing it in addition to social and tax benefits, according to Mathew Muñoz, chief innovation and finance officer of Carver Family Farm who has also worked for UNM’s governmental relations as well as state relations.

Muñoz noted the boost in employment and revenue that the cannabis industry will introduce to New Mexico. Krebs also brought up the high revenue potential and the fairly high 12% tax rate as driving factors in statewide legalization.

A lot of the potential political issues relating to cannabis fall back on a city or county level, according to Krebs.

These may include people driving while impaired, agriculture, medicinal versus recreational resources or sales, and zoning.

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change, according to Krebs. He also said if legalization ever happens in more conservative southern states, like Texas, it might push other conservative states to follow suit.

However, cannabis is still illegal on a federal level, which Krebs thinks will change one day. The start to legalization on a federal level will happen first on a medical basis, according to Krebs. So far, 37 states and Washington, D.C. have legalized medical cannabis.

“I do believe it’s going to become so widespread at the state level that it will bubble up to the national level,” Krebs said.

Because cannabis is federally illegal, a lot of large banks won’t accept “cannabis cash,” according to Muñoz, though he said there are banks in New Mexico willing to accept it.

This federal cash issue is what Muñoz believes will drive change at the federal level.

“There’s a lot of states where it is legal (but) they don’t have a cannabis

medicine for them. They also get access to all of the flower, the buds that are testing at over 20 to 21% THC, because our medical patients do (usually need) higher potencies based on whatever their specific condition is,” Brandon Ryberg, Ultra Health assistant manager, said.

Ryberg anticipates that the benefits of the surplus of money from the 12% cannabis excise tax will soon benefit the state as it has in places like Colorado and California. Almost $2 million in total sales were made on first day sales, according to New Mexico Political Report.

Griego said the new industry is going to be different from the sole medical market that existed before because now licenses are not going to be given on a supply-demand basis as they were with medical ones. He said this opening of the market will create more competition, with Griego anticipating a rise in applications for medical licenses because of the high recreational tax.

“I think (medical card applications are) going to taper off for a little bit because people are just going to be so excited to finally have legal healthy cannabis. But again, the tax on that is pretty high. It's only a matter of time before people realize, ‘I'm going to

save a lot of money if I (get) a medical card,’” Griego said.

In terms of cannabis prices, Griego said street prices will have less of an impact than they originally did, but because of the already established medical industry, dispensers will be able to standardize their own prices going forward. However, Ryberg said there will still be trial and error involved with the start of recreational sales as supply attempts to meet the newfound demand.

What makes this industry so different, according to Reyes, is that cannabis is still federally illegal, unlike alcohol or tobacco. He said that has caused dispensers to spend extra time ensuring everything is done properly. While it is an industry unlike anything else, the anticipation of seeing what will happen in the future is part of the excitement for Griego.

“People are going to trade futures based on cannabis, which is what I think. I don't know what it's going to look like. There's no way of telling,” Griego said.

bank, which makes things like paying your payroll difficult. I mean, it’s hard. You’re running a cash business and you don’t have a bank account to actually write a check to an employee.

You have to pay everybody in cash,” Muñoz said.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Friday, April 1 to decriminalize cannabis at a federal level, which both Krebs and Muñoz brought up. However, both said it would be difficult to pass through the more historically conservative Senate.

Cannabis is labeled as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act, “meaning that it has a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States and a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision,” according to a cannabis fact sheet from the Drug Enforcement Administration.

“You’ve got this sort of, at the federal level, this law (that) basically says this is a serious drug. Marijuana’s illegal; it’s a serious drug,” Krebs said.

In general, more liberal and younger individuals are more supportive of cannabis legalization than older conservatives, according to Krebs.

He brought up that more conservative people may also see cannabis as

a gateway drug, and Republicans in general are “less permissive in their attitudes about this.” Muñoz brought up that younger Republicans are generally more supportive than older individuals in their party.

“I think it’s just the old conservative Republicans that still have control of the party that aren’t in favor of it, and it gets back to the Reagan war on drugs … I think a lot of them are starting to see the dollar signs in these states that have legalized. I mean, cannabis was a $25 billion industry in the past year worldwide and that’s only going to grow. At some point, the conservative side will see the fiscal sides and it will come together, but it’s just not at that point yet,” Muñoz said.

As of Sunday, April 3, more than $4.5 million in sales had been made in the state since recreational sales started on Friday, April 1.

“It’s kind of a moment of celebration and culmination of a lot of hard work on the part of legislators and advocacy groups to really produce a major change in policy,” Krebs said.

Madeline Pukite is a beat reporter at the Daily Lobo. They can be contacted at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @maddogpukite

Megan Gleason is the Editor-inChief of the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at editorinchief@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @fabflutist2716

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Physical, mental benefits of cannabis amid stigmatized industry

By Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716 Despite a long list of positive effects, cannabis use still remains a taboo subject for some. While medical cannabis was legalized over a decade ago in New Mexico, recreational cannabis was only legalized last summer with retail sales having started on Friday, April 1.

Jacob Vigil, associate professor in the University of New Mexico psychology department, and Sarah Stith, associate professor in economics, are married and have done both joint and separate research on cannabis specifically. Through this, they have found that it’s largely more beneficial than a lot of people think and believe it should be normalized in society.

“I’ve probably seen a thousand patients at this point that have demonstrated that cannabis has been so effective for safely treating so many different types of health conditions,” Vigil said.

Stith was first exposed to cannabis research through a study where people joined a medical cannabis program and stopped using their opioids, which shocked her. Since then, she’s looked at substitution impacts, effects on stock market evaluations and more.

Vigil started researching cannabis about five years ago when he discovered how inefficient many typical medical prescriptions are, both in “lack of efficacy” and in causing new, negative side effects, a phenomenon which he called “secondary victimization.”

Cannabis is fast-acting, according to Vigil. In addition, Stith brought up that it can treat an array of symptoms rather than just one, as opposed to

most conventional medications.

“That’s why I call cannabis a super medication, because it has such a wide window of therapeutic potentials (for) so many different ailments,” Vigil said.

Another benefit is the light side effects of cannabis in comparison to many other pharmaceutical drugs, according to Vigil. He said that while cannabis may cause things like confusion or dizziness, it’s not damaging organs as many pharmaceutical medications can do. Stith also brought up that people cannot overdose on cannabis.

Cannabis use being beneficial is dependent on the individual, according to Vigil and Stith. The drug also causes impairment. While it’s not as risky as alcohol or other substances, Stith said, it’s still a concern, especially given that there’s no good method to measure impairment with any sort of lab test, which is a challenge for law enforcement.

Stith analyzes cannabis from an economic perspective wherein people will “consume a good as long as the benefits exceed the cost.” With the legalization of cannabis, the cost has been greatly reduced in acquiring it. In addition, she said the market has become safer and more innovative.

Cannabis can also help to create “a state with less bodily stress on it rather than reacting to all the specific things that our body tends to instinctually react to,” according to Vigil, which he said would seem to positively impact college students specifically.

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terns and so forth while allowing the individual to engage in normal, daily functioning. So it enables a lot of folks to kind of experience a slightly altered perspective throughout their day,” Vigil said.

The distinction between medical use and recreational use shouldn’t be so separate, according to Stith and Vigil.

“It seems a bit of a false dichotomy, this whole medical versus recreational use. It’s probably sort of more of a continuum between strictly medical use and strictly recreational use,” Stith said.

Stith expects that people may be more open to seeking out cannabis for minor medical ailments after it’s legalized recreationally.

With cannabis shops allowed to open on April 1, Stith brought up a study she worked on regarding recreational cannabis’ impact on Colorado’s labor markets where they found that increases in employment outweighed losses, if any, in pro-

ductivity. Vigil said he heard a lot of people talking about the April 1 date beforehand and anticipates a boom in people trying cannabis, especially older individuals.

Currently dying from bone cancer, Vigil’s father started using cannabis at over 80 years old. Stith largely attributes this to it being less stigmatized; the first time he tried it was after talking about it with his friends, not through the research of his son and daughter-in-law.

“At 80-plus years old, he is using cannabis and he is finding it enjoyable … He’s a classic case of somebody that’s willing to try something new even in the face of all the misinformation that he’s been exposed to over his life,” Vigil said.

Though Vigil feels that society is in a “golden age” of cannabis use and research, there is still much stigma surrounding the drug. He attributes this in part to the potential threat some people feel cannabis poses to the pharmaceutical industry and

even went so far as to say that entities are trying to control people through certain means.

There’s a lot more research that needs to be done but there are still barriers in place, according to Vigil.

Even at UNM, Vigil said his own department is not particularly friendly toward cannabis research “because they’ve been trained in addiction research and have been trained to think of cannabis as the enemy.”

Overall, Vigil said cannabis has been villainized by society.

“We see that the legalization has come from the people. It’s come from the states. It’s not come from the federal government. So there’s definitely been sort of a message from authority that cannabis is dangerous,” Stith said.

Megan Gleason is the Editor-inChief of the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at editorinchief@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @fabflutist2716

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Cannabis cinema What are the editors’ selections of chill movies?

As we remain in the weeds of a strenuous spring semester, we all may be searching for some ways to unwind and kick back. Given that this April brought with it the legalization of recreational cannabis sales in New Mexico and the 4/20 holiday, taking a load off and relaxing might become even easier.

Here, three Daily Lobo editors have compiled their top picks for chill movies to watch when you’re looking for a way to just sit down and unwind.

Joseph’s Pick: “The Endless Summer” (1966) directed by Bruce Brown With a 1960s guitar-based soundtrack, filmed all on a 16 mm camera and what I think are some slight homoerotic undertones, “The Endless Summer,” directed by Bruce Brown, is a quirky documentary that captures the popular rise of surfing in American culture in the 1960s.

The film follows surfers Mike Hyson and Robert August as they travel around the world in search of the perfect wave and an endless summer. With enough

money and enough time, the two attempt to chase summer around the world — traveling from the U.S. to Ghana to South Africa then on to Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti.

The footage captured by Brown is beautiful. Brown’s artistic vision of composition and filming techniques brings viewers into the ocean, making it feel as if we all really know how to surf and are traveling along with Hyson and August.

Viewers should note that this film is a slow burn, and that it was released in 1966. Needless to say, some portions did not age well.

Watching this film 56 years after its initial release, I found the sexism, ignorance and American superiority within the film hard to sit through. It’s best to watch this one on mute. You’ll still be able to experience the good portions of the film, like the ambiance, aesthetic athleticism and vintage elements filmed by Brown.

Mackenzie’s Pick: “Giants of the Deep Blue” (2017) directed by Ken Corben “Giants of the Deep Blue,” a

National Geographic documentary directed by Ken Corben, is about the giant animals that live in the ocean.

Watching what has been discovered in the small portion of the ocean that has been explored is enough to make anyone marvel at the mysteries of what has yet to be uncovered. Seeing that there is something out there that can breathe and live underwater is really cool to think about and makes you think what else could be out there.

The movie is not a by-the-books nature documentary. Rather, it makes you think more deeply about all of the unknowns lurking beneath the ocean’s surface. If you're someone who only has a limited amount of knowledge about the ocean and the creatures that roam it, I think this would generate endless questions for you to think about. What else is in the ocean besides that which science has discovered? Is there something that scientists have discovered but have not said anything about because of how much power that creature has?

This movie is amazing to watch to learn about animals while also

entertaining yourself with endless “what if?” questions.

John’s Pick: “Koyaanisqatsi” (1982) directed by Godfrey Reggio Godfrey Reggio’s documentary magnum opus “Koyaanisqatsi” can certainly be a weighty watch if you want it to be. However, the film still lends itself to a sensory trip through distinctly ambitious and breathtaking visuals and Phillip Glass’ enormously influential arpeggiating synth score — perfect for someone who may be on a trip of their own.

Putting the film on this list is not to discount the overt political message Reggio imbues the film with through the language and storytelling of the Hopi tribe (again, it can be weighty if you want it to be). The film just contains so many moments of sheer cinematic beauty that it’s perfect to just put on and forget about everything going on around you — it’s only you, Glass’ concoction of synths, woodwinds and a choir, and cinematographer Ron Fricke’s astonishing visuals.

Hopefully, we can all take a minute to sit back and zone out with a good movie this month. Try taking our advice and put one of these films into your queue.

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REVIEW

‘Dazed and Confused’ sets high bar for ’90s flicks

By Emma Trevino @itsemmatr

Whether you’re watching high or sober, Richard Linklater’s iconic 1993 movie “Dazed and Confused” hits all the right notes. This comingof-age masterpiece features themes of rebellion and lasting friendship all overlaid with — you guessed it — some very potent cannabis imagery. Almost 30 years on, “Dazed and Confused” feels as fresh as ever with a killer soundtrack and marvelously endearing characters.

While critically acclaimed, “Dazed and Confused” was a box office failure, earning $7.9 million worldwide, a number that’s barely above the film’s $6.9 million budget. However, it has gained and maintained a steady cult following, cementing it as quintessential viewing for anyone who has ever tried growing up. Even if you weren’t alive in the 1970s — or the 1990s for that matter — the nostalgia

the film evokes for me comes from the characters, not the aesthetics.

The film came out nearly 30 years ago in 1993 and is set 17 years before that in 1976, but the different plights of the students in “Dazed and Confused” remain remarkably relevant.

High school football star Pink (Jason London) is pressured by the school to sign a written pledge saying he’ll stay away from drugs and alcohol and focus on school, but Pink’s friends have other ideas. Meanwhile, freshman Mitch (Wiley Wiggins) and friends try to evade a promised hazing by senior bullies, led by super senior Fred (Ben Affleck).

The conflicts faced by Pink and Mitch are based in the universal truths of being a kid: making the tough decisions about who to associate with, how to present yourself and, ultimately, how to live in a strikingly difficult stage of life.

As someone who has (thankfully) escaped my teenage years, it can be easy to forget how detrimental the

retrospectively inconsequential problems I had felt; a minor drama turned into weeks of turmoil. But along with downs came ups. Living carefree and rent-free and tax-free is something many of us will never get back, but movies like “Dazed and Confused” provide a smidge of escapism — at least for an hour and 42 minutes.

While London, Wiggins and Affleck are all outstanding in this film, the real MVP is Matthew McConaughey playing the stagnant David Wooderson. This character is present in all of our lives — the guy who hasn’t moved on from high school and might come to visit his high school history teacher in the middle of the day.

McConaughey could’ve easily played Wooderson as jokey and unsympathetic but instead chose to give the character as much sincerity as possible. Of course, McConaughey also delivers the forever emulated line “all right, all right, all right,” which certainly doesn’t hurt.

The film’s soundtrack is the stuff of Editor-in-Chief Megan Gleason Managing Editor John Scott

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legend with classic cuts of ’70s rock making this great movie even better.

Artists like Kiss, Black Sabbath and the Runaways had songs included, along with War’s iconic track “Low Rider.” Whether you like ’70s rock as a genre or not (who doesn’t?), the soundtrack of “Dazed and Confused” was exquisitely cultivated.

The end of “Dazed and Confused” doesn’t have a sense of finality like “The Breakfast Club,” a similar coming-of-age film, is known for.

Instead, doors are left open for Pink, Mitch and the rest of the cast as they continue to navigate through life.

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ally preferred. Being able to fill in the blanks helps a movie stay with a viewer, and that’s certainly true with “Dazed and Confused.”

Now that recreational cannabis sales are legal in New Mexico, maybe we can all live our lives more like the “Dazed and Confused” gang and get high on a little more than life. Regardless of how topical the movie is right now, it’s an absolute must-see. I can’t recommend it enough.

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OPINION

Texas lags too far behind New Mexico in cannabis law

By Elizabeth Secor @esecor2003 It never fails to surprise me how much New Mexico and Texas, two states that share a border, differ in their views when it comes to cannabis. New Mexico made cannabis legal for recreational use as of June 29, and recreational sales began April 1. In contrast, cannabis is still largely illegal in Texas.

I originally hail from ye olde Texas and moved here for university (go Lobos), where I witnessed a stark difference in the attitude toward cannabis. Cannabis is not something one just saw someone

smoking on the street in Texas (although that’s still technically illegal in New Mexico). There, smoking is treated with much secrecy with cannabis being reduced to a smell that lingers in high school bathrooms. Barring people with a select few medical conditions, the most someone can do legally in Texas is consume CBD oil.

While here, I vividly remember the first time I saw someone just casually smoking near a cop. I was both very concerned for this person and in awe until I remembered that I was indeed in New Mexico and not Texas (though I’m still not sure how many New Mexicans can bring themselves to smoke brazenly near cops).

See, in Texas, possession of even

two ounces or less of cannabis flower is a Class B misdemeanor punishable by up to 180 days in prison and a fee of up to $2,000. This is striking compared to New Mexico where two ounces is now the maximum amount of flower someone who is 21 or older can buy at once (and they can have more at home). This seems reasonable to me. As long as you aren’t abusing the privilege, it's okay. There are many ways to purchase and safely ingest cannabis.

Further legalization of cannabis for more medical reasons show that Texas is progressing in its own way.

The state did recently (meaning only last September) legalize THC oil for treatment in an incredibly narrow selection of mostly incurable and/or

incredibly painful diseases. However, Texas is still very slow-going and quite behind other states in the U.S., like Colorado, Washington and, now, New Mexico.

I mean, only within the past year did New Mexico become one of 18 states to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. I find it frankly a bit insane how far behind Texas is on legalizing cannabis compared to New Mexico or even other states like Colorado, which legalized cannabis in 2012. In the nine years since Colorado did it, Texas hasn’t managed to really make any headway.

Hopefully, in the future — however far that may be — Texas will make some progress on the road to legalizing cannabis. Until then, I have

become far more accustomed to the freedoms New Mexico has with cannabis, though some things still do surprise me (like seeing people casually selling weed at pop-up markets and one very memorable moment of someone just shouting they were selling weed on campus).

If any Texans want to purchase and partake in some weed, I recommend taking the drive to New Mexico. Just don’t take any back with you.

Elizabeth Secor is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @esecor2003

Grass Roots Rx explores edible innovation Tips on making edibles at home

Vallejos recommended using something like dark chocolate to mask the taste. The fat source in the dish can also help with the flavor.

“When I was using the Crock-Pot method when I first started, I would use butter, avocado oil or grapeseed oil, because they have a distinctive taste so it would help break down the taste of the cannabis,” Vallejos said.

These different fats are responsible for making sure the THC is evenly distributed throughout the recipe. She also said the temperature the edible is being cooked at is key.

“You can’t have it above 350 degrees or it’s going to burn off a lot of the THC compounds, your terpenes, your cannabinoid profiles and things like that,” Vallejos said.

She suggested incorporating THC into foods that the aspiring home chefs already enjoy. Her personal favorite creation is a strawberry cheesecake bar.

“If you love a chocolate chip cookie, try it in a chocolate chip cookie,” Vallejos said.

By Nell Johnson @peachnells Most are likely familiar with pot brownies, but what about pot oatmeal? Pot French toast? Desirey Vallejos, manager and master baker at Grass Roots Rx, is no stranger to the different forms edibles can come in. With the start of legal recreational cannabis sales in New Mexico on Friday, April 1, she offered new ways to ingest THC beyond the normal range of baked goods, both in what she sells at her shop and what individuals can make at home.

Most medical patients are typically looking for something not only discreet and cost-effective but also fun, according to Vallejos, which she attempts to deliver.

“Recreationally, I’ll start expanding as far as (the) things that we carry because the consumer’s not looking at it as a medicine; they’re looking to have fun,” Vallejos said.

Vallejos, who comes from a culinary background, recently created a cannabis agave syrup that can be used as a sugar substitute and is working on an ice cream. She also has savory edibles, like salad dress-

Baking appliances lay on the drawers and tables of Grass Roots Rx.

ing and trail mix.

While edibles — or drinkables, like an Arnold Palmer made with a dose of cannabis lemonade — are certainly exciting, Vallejos urged consumers to be patient. Just like taking a pill, she said, consuming edibles on an empty stomach can make you feel sick and push you away from the beneficial effects of cannabis.

“Start low and see how it makes you feel, then see where you want to go from there,” Vallejos said.

Tips on making your own edibles Even with all kinds of edibles available now that recreational sales are open, users may want to try making their own edibles at home.

Vallejos said there’s a key factor in

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making them taste delicious: the quality of the THC oil used in baking.

Vallejos explained that crude oil, the cheapest “bottom of the batch” oil, is often extracted from the cannabis plant with butane, propane or even Everclear, leading to a chemical, weedy flavor. Distillate oil, which is more refined, is the best option.

When crude oil is the only option,

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By Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716 Since cannabis was legalized recreationally last summer in New Mexico, University of New Mexico students have been able to legally partake in the drug, so long as they’re over 21.

After recreational sales started on Friday, April 1, many students have said this chain of legalization will have positive impacts on the local community and its members despite the misinformation that America’s war on drugs has produced.

Cannabis can be used both medically and recreationally, according to graduate music student Sam Lutz, and the only drug he uses is cannabis. It helps him calm down, as it does for graduate music students Hunter Wheatcraft and Daniel Yim as well.

“I’m a pretty anxious person and so it does generally calm my anxiety down and helps me relax,” Wheatcraft said.

In the U.S., 18 states have legalized cannabis recreationally so far. Lutz said this legalization will boost New

Mexico’s economy.

“I just think this is a really positive step economically for New Mexico as a state (that is) in a much lower income bracket. The way this is going to stimulate the economy, I think, is going to be incredible,” Lutz said.

As long as there’s some control over the market and how much people can buy, Wheatcraft said this is a great thing that “more states are getting into.” Lutz said that although legal recreational cannabis will likely be more expensive than “channels people were taking previously,” it’s worth it for the regulation.

“The products people are consuming are going to be safer. People are going to be purchasing less street weed that could be laced with things.

I think this is a really good step because people have been smoking weed forever; now, it’s just going to be safer,” Lutz said.

However, cannabis is still illegal on a federal level. This disproportionately affects marginalized communities, according to Lutz, as do other federally criminalized drugs.

“I’m personally in the camp

that all drugs should be decriminalized because of the way that criminalization has negatively affected communities of color and people from lower economic classes, but particularly I think that it’s kind of like the modern-day equivalent of Prohibition. It’s like, ‘Oh, this is a bad thing’ and so the government stands against it when really they have no reason to. It’s just kind of tradition,” Lutz said.

A lot of the stigmatization of weed stems from the war on drugs, Wheatcraft and Lutz said. The war on drugs was officially declared by former President Richard Nixon in 1971 to reduce illegal drug use, distribution and trade.

Yim referenced an interview with former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman published in Harper’s Magazine in 2016 where he said the goal of the war on drugs was to get “the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin,” and then criminalize those drugs, therefore negatively impacting the communities.

“I think a lot of it just has to do with

how America has always been a fundamentally racist country,” Yim said.

The war on drugs was greatly expanded by former President Ronald Reagan in 1981 when criminal punishment was favored over treatment, and a massive wave of incarcerations was enacted. The total prison population almost doubled under Reagan’s presidency.

“As a society, we like to choose certain things to demonize, and cannabis, because of the war on drugs and the whole D.A.R.E. project and stuff, it very much was kind of personified as this big, evil thing … and that’s just kind of had far-reaching impacts because we were all raised under that war on drugs umbrella,” Lutz said.

This stigmatization has continued because of right-wing propaganda, according to Yim. He said there is a lack of action on a political level to legalize cannabis federally.

“Congressional Democrats are wimps who are unwilling to do anything, and right now the rumor is they're waiting until 4/20 to legalize.

I’m like, there’s no reason to wait.

It’s a purely symbolic date. We know

it’s going to happen … It just needs to happen,” Yim said.

People are often misinformed about cannabis and equate it with drugs with more severe effects, like heroin and meth, or don’t understand what it does, according to Wheaton.

“I never get those visual highs that you see in ’70s movies and stuff, and I think a lot of the people who are against marijuana usage, that’s what they think of with it, is they’re thinking of people who are incapacitated and they’re seeing colors and all, and some people do experience that I’m sure, but I know certainly that’s not what I experience and most of my friends would probably say the same,” Wheatcraft said.

Recreational cannabis legalization and sales will benefit New Mexico overall, according to Lutz.

“It’s something that's been a long time coming and it’s nice that it’s finally here,” Lutz said.

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UNM students vary in feelings on recreational cannabis

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By John Scott @JScott050901 Albuquerque has seen millions of dollars of profit made in the cannabis industry since recreational sales started on Friday, April 1 following the drug’s legalization last summer.

This change has brought on a variety of reactions from University of New Mexico students, from indifference to opposition to support.

Katy McCarter, a UNM student studying elementary education,

said she doesn’t really mind the legalization because she personally doesn’t intake cannabis but that it can be used to help others destress and unwind, which is especially important for students.

“A lot of people are stressed with school so, I mean, smoking here and there would probably chill you out a little (because) I know college can be stressful and just taking a hit would cool everything down,” McCarter said.

However, McCarter doesn’t want people to do the drug on campus,

which isn’t allowed anyway.

Will Martinez, an English literature and film history and criticism student, said he has mixed opinions on the legalization and that the solution to the problems relating to cannabis criminalization, like mass incarceration and the stigma surrounding convicted felons, goes beyond just legalization.

“While I support (legalization) in concept, I don’t really support it in execution because I don’t feel comfortable supporting the industry … especially since we see that a majority of these dispensaries are white-owned and any criminal charges (do) bar you from participation in the industry,” Martinez said.

Criminal records won’t actually prevent individuals from obtaining a professional license, according to an article from KOB4, although these prior convictions do go into consideration when obtaining a license. Of the top executives from 14 of the largest cannabis companies in the U.S. and Canada, 70% are white males, according to an article from Business Insider.

UNM environmental science student Maika Gray said cannabis should be legalized, citing the Pro-

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hibition era as an example as to why criminalization doesn’t work.

“I think we should legalize it. Everyone’s smoking anyways. It’s kind of like the whole (Prohibition) thing.

It just creates more organized crime and stuff so I think it’s better to just legalize it,” Gray said.

Senate Bill 2, passed signed into New Mexico law on April 12, 2021, expunges any record of a cannabis-related charge that is no longer a crime under the new bill. The expungement has taken or will take place either automatically after the bill was signed into law or, if two years have not passed since the date of arrest or conviction, two years following the date of conviction or date of arrest in instances where there was no conviction.

Martinez sees expungement and exoneration as something that should’ve happened prior to legalization.

“Of course, that’s something that can always be done even now after the legalization … but, in general, I think (the concept of legalization) is a good thing,” Martinez said.

Gray said the money from cannabis sales could directly affect

students if money from sales aided in education, such as in Colorado.

The first $40 million dollars in cannabis taxes are going toward public schools in Colorado, according to the Colorado Legislative Assembly.

“I know that the economy benefits well (from legalization) like in Colorado … That, in turn, can help education with all the money coming in,” Gray said.

Generally, though, McCarter doesn’t anticipate the law change will affect her day-to-day life. Ultimately, she said it’s “the same thing; just more pot stores open up.”

Martinez expressed an opposing point of view, though, as he said that “there’s really no way” for the law change to not have some effect on his daily life.

“Regardless of what we want to say, a lot of people smoke weed,” Martinez said. “It’s going to affect the people around me and people’s access to it.”

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Local cannabis growers are the ‘Carver B’s knees

By Zara Roy @zarazzledazzle Carver Family Farm was the first micro-producer of cannabis in Albuquerque to gain their growing license. Now, it’s full steam ahead for business partners Andrew Brown, Erika Hartwick Brown and Mathew Muñoz as the Friday, April 1 start date for recreational cannabis sales has passed, and they opened up their odorless storefront.

Passionate about providing clean, organic cannabis, they settled on notill organic growing as the best option for them in their own personal medical growth, according to Hartwick Brown. All of their product is currently grown in-house through the no-till organic method, including their flag-

ship “Carver” strain, which Hartwick Brown said helps her personally with her migraines.

Brown and Hartwick Brown got their personal medical production licenses together and have been growing since 2009. They teamed up with family friend Muñoz as fellow lovers and advocates of cannabis. Muñoz, chief innovation and finance officer, was instrumental in the process of infiltrating the “red tape” necessary to sell recreationally.

Hartwick Brown began using cannabis medically when she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in 2008. She then began seeing Brian Krum, a New Mexico therapist and long-time medical cannabis advocate, who recommended medical cannabis to her. She has not looked back since.

Brown has been making glass

art and “functional glass” for 26 years under the name “Carver B,” a moniker he earned from his unique method in which he carves into glass with a diamond-encrusted blade.

The name Carver Family Farm was created in an effort to cross-market between the two communities with their logo being based on a pendant created by Brown.

Brown has been involved in growing since he was a teenager. He currently serves as the company’s chief cultivation officer and is incredibly passionate about the plant and the horticulture behind it.

“When you get into it, there’s a subculture. There’s people who are helping you with the science of it. There’s people who are helping you push the limits of your

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I’m just extremely passionate about it,” Brown said.

Though cannabis is his first choice as a gardener, Brown also loves all varieties of horticulture and likes to grow tomatoes and cacti. Some of his cacti propagations are for sale at the store, along with locally made functional glass, a few of his own included.

Prior to the creation of the company, Muñoz was working in the University of New Mexico’s governmental relations department. Brown said the two waited for years for recreational cannabis legislation to clear

before finally proceeding with the business plan.

“I grew up, as a lot of teenagers do, smoking cannabis, did it through college. It’s always been part of my life …

When Colorado legalized it, Washington legalized, and then seeing all the other states going forward going fully legal, it was just a fascinating policy perspective for me to follow. It’s a really interesting policy area because it’s fresh; it’s new. It’s not your typical land-use policy, your higher-ed policy. It was just something that was out of the blue,” Muñoz said.

All three agreed the licensing process required to get the

business up and running was incredibly strenuous, particularly the regulations put up by the city of Albuquerque, including thorough outlines of security, growing and social equity plans along with background checks.

“The biggest hurdle in order for most cannabis businesses to get over in order to get into this industry has been the city (regulations) … It was a lot of stress, getting up to that point. It’s just been red tape after red tape. I mean, they were building the airplane as they were flying it,” Muñoz said.

The trio was excited to begin selling, though understandably

nervous for all of the unknowns that come with the territory after years of stigmatization and criminalization of the plant.

“For me, it’s amazing just to have a retail space where we can talk about other people’s experience, what they think, their opinion, what it did for them. There’s just so much you weren’t allowed to do before,” Brown said.

Hartwick Brown is particularly excited to reintroduce older generations who grew up around much stigma surrounding cannabis back to the plant, both medically and recreationally.

“I’m excited to bring people who had a real appreciation for it before it became über-taboo to get reintroduced to it and feel like they have a safe place to ask ‘stupid questions’ because they feel like they haven’t been part of the scene, and to bring it back into people’s lives,” Hartwick Brown said.

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Local artist imbues art with love and weed

By John Scott

@JScott050901 Cannabis has long inspired countless films, music, paintings and other forms of art that all center around an idea of cannabis culture, and Semaj Glover is one such artist inspired by weed. Glover not only features cannabis in her art but also attempts to remove the negative stigma around weed, encouraging a more positive attitude.

Glover grew up in Oregon but moved to Albuquerque in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic in August 2021. While she was still an artist prior to the start of the pandemic, the free time allowed her to sink deeper into her art than ever before. Semaj was raised in an environment of artists, something that has encouraged her to pursue art.

“I’ve been an esthetician for 12 years, (a) massage therapist for nine years … It wasn’t until the shutdown that I actually got to just dive in and do nothing but art. And

now I can’t go back,” Glover said.

Glover has sold some of her art to dispensaries located in Oregon.

Ashley Zamani, general manager of Oregon-based dispensary Satchel, met Glover through the club scene in Portland, and they began supporting each other’s art. Zamani was able to feature Glover’s work at Satchel.

“I got a promotion at my personal job and I worked really hard to be able to integrate the community into my job … I have been hosting many different visual artists on the walls (of the dispensary). I’ve been hosting different kinds of mixed media artists such as Semaj’s resin trays,” Zamani said.

Cannabis has always played a key role in Glover’s art. For Glover, the art she makes more simply just revolves around what she loves.

“When going into art, I went straight into things that I love and I’m obsessed with and I think you can see that pretty clearly in my art,” Glover said. “It’s weed, coffee, nature.”

Beyond herself, Glover sees cannabis as something that goes hand-in-hand with art. With New Mexico’s legalization laws in place,

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Semaj Glover, an Albuqerque-based artist from Oregon who specializes in resin art and pour painting.

Glover hopes that spaces will be created for people to engage with both weed and art, like “puff and paints” in states like Colorado.

“I feel like it all goes together …

I’m really excited that we’re moving towards legalization and I’m hoping that also leads more towards having

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spaces that you can go and smoke,” Glover said.

Zamani said the legalization of cannabis in Portland “opened up a space” for more people to become more involved not only with cannabis but with each other. She also added that the legalization gives artists more avenues to showcase their work.

“I am passionate about everyone’s voices being heard and art is one form of expression and (legalization) really allows people to have more access to different demographics who (wouldn’t usually) be able to see their art on display, at different types of venues and events,” Zamani said.

Glover smokes while she creates not only to get the “creative juices flowing” but also, and more importantly, as a way to relax and clear her mind.

“I definitely feel like (smoking) contributes to the ideas … The way the world’s set up, we’re constantly like, ‘What am I doing next? What do I have to do? What bill do I have to pay?’ And, so, smoking helps let go of all that so I can just be free on creat-

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With her artwork, Glover wants to provide others with a feeling of love and positivity, a mindset that she retains while creating and that is amplified through cannabis.

“When creating, I just try to be in a positive mindset and I think, because I use (weed) as a therapy for me, my goal, really, for anybody else to be able to look at my art and just forget about the world and just live in your own world,” Glover said.

Some of Glover’s work is currently on display at Gobble This, a Salvadorian restaurant located in Old Town.

Glover hopes she can get her work into dispensaries and that everyone can just have a good time now that recreational stores have opened up.

“I am definitely hoping to get into some dispensaries here locally so, hopefully, one day people can see my art there,” Glover said.

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