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No More Normal: Legal Cannabis Takes Root


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After many attempts over what seems like forever, New Mexico has finally passed a law making recreational cannabis use legal for adults. But the rollout is not as simple as lighting a match as special considerations for how this new law will impact New Mexicans must be addressed. It raises a lot of questions: What happens to people with prior cannabis convictions? Who will have access to the emerging industry? How will equity be enacted? And how will this affect you if you don’t have citizenship status?
In Episode 27, we ask the people of Albuquerque how they feel about weed being legal. We learn about how the new law affects immigrant communities. We hear about the long fight for the Drug Policy Alliance, how one veteran is determined to use grass to help other vets, and we talk to two people whose lives were interrupted because of that so-called “war on drugs.” ....

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NM cannot trust private prisons to administer vaccine » Albuquerque Journal


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Over the last year, while New Mexican communities have banded together to fight COVID-19, some of our most vulnerable neighbors, including hundreds of immigrant detainees, in the privately run Torrance County Detention Facility, Cibola County Correctional Center and Otero County Processing Center have been screaming for help inside soundproof walls. As of March 24, ICE had confirmed 10,408 positive cases of COVID-19 across 124 detention facilities since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In my job at the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center (NMILC), I speak with asylum-seekers facing this reality every week.
ICE detention centers across the country have been hotbeds for the uncontrollable spread of COVID-19. A recent report found the rate of coronavirus infection among ICE detainees was about 13.4 times the rate of the U.S. population each month between April to August. This infection ....

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Border wall comes to a halt in southern NM


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SANTA TERESA – The construction site along the Mexican border, between El Paso and Santa Teresa, is all but abandoned.
Giant earthmovers sit dormant beside twisted heaps of rust-colored metal. Water leaks from a massive tank nearby, forming a puddle before it disappears into the parched earth below.
The new border wall meets the old wall on Wednesday near Santa Teresa. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
Now and then, a Border Patrol truck speeds by, dragging tires – smoothing the dirt to better see any footprints later – before the area falls silent again.
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In one direction, the imposing spires of a newly constructed wall shoot up a mountainside where they collide with the past in the form of the thick mesh and squat stature of the old wall. ....

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