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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.”
Detainee Eli Addington spoke with the
Las Cruces Sun-News on Thursday from inside the Otero County Detention Center (OCDC), and claimed nearly half of the facility s 150 inmates tested positive for COVID-19. We re really being denied any kind of medical treatment. Anytime we see the news or anything about COVID on TV, it s hospital rooms, doctors or nurses. Every other day or so, we ll get a half a glass of Gatorade. They re giving us vitamins, Melatonin to help us sleep every night and they give us Vitamin D and some Zinc, but other than that, we re being denied any other medical treatment, and that s the real frustration, he said.
ALAMOGORDO Attorneys for detainees at the Otero County Detention Center say they are finding it increasingly difficult to get information about the health of their clients amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since early December, attorneys with the Law Office of the Public Defender in the 12th Judicial District say they ve attempted multiple times to get copies of these health records via inspection of public records requests to the county. But because of the pandemic, county officials said the request for the physical copies of the records are too burdensome.
Instead, county officials told LOPD its officials could visit the facility and make copies. Because of the pandemic, LOPD Attorney Dayna Jones said sending attorneys to a location that may be experiencing a high number of COVID-19 cases was out of the question.