Misty Qsyk: A better performing arts center with real acoustics for musicals and other stage shows. Jolene Delyea Baldwin: Make the heart of downtown a walking area only. Have parking in the outer lying areas. Shannon Fell Boniface: More bike friendly. Scott Piepel: Incentivize builders to build affordable starter houses instead of >$600,000 McMansions. Erin Maggart: I would like to see the houseless humanized and housed. Ryan Oelrich: Zoning changes partnered with incentives to build creative, fun and affordable housing options with community in mind. Holly Robertson: Affordable housing, affordable parking that s not a sprawl. Invest in infrastructure as well as art. We need to invest in our
Many a cannabis consumer has an intimate relationship with his bud. But few have gotten as up close and personal with pot as Ted Kinsman, a scientific photographer at Rochester Institute of Technology who does not indulge in the jolly green grass. When Kinsman’s otherworldly images of microscopic parts of the cannabis plant started circulating on the internet in 2018, not everyone believed what they were seeing. Some took to Snopes.com to verify that the suspiciously psychedelically-hued images were true representations of pot. The sleuthing site confirmed that they were genuine images of cannabis, but clarified that Kinsman had digitally colorized them to make parts of the plant pop specifically the parts that get you high.
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click to enlarge PHOTO COURTESY DAN CURTIS, CURTISVISUALWORKS.COM Last summer, Rochester morning radio show host Brother Wease was hungry during a commercial break. In the refrigerator he found a packaged sleeve of cookies, and without much thought, he devoured five of them and went back on the air. Wease recalled that about an hour later, in the middle of the show, he started feeling “dizzy and a bit nutty.” He had unwittingly eaten cannabis cookies and ingested 50 milligrams of THC between five and 10 times the recommended dose. Wease was no stranger to edibles. But he’d gone too far. He described his state as “comatose, a bad trip, and a buzz that lasted 24 hours.” It was so bad, he recalled, that his wife had to put him to bed. “I was out of my mind,” he said.