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Progressive hope amid fears of autocracy and fascism

by Dave Anderson

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fter the Senate Democrats recently passed the $3.5 trillion budget resolution, California Congress member Ro Khanna told Democracy Now! that it was “a historic piece of legislation that marks, frankly, the end of (Reagan/Thatcher) neoliberalism, that has governed America for the last four decades.

It is a major investment in the American people. This will have child care being universal. It will have community college for everyone. It will expand Medicare to include dental, vision, hearing. It will mark the largest investment in tackling the climate crisis, with massive investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency. “ This followed the passage of a bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill to repair bridges and roads, invest in public transit, expand broadband and more.

However, Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have expressed doubts about the price tag of the budget bill.

The Democrats can only pass it if all 50 of them vote for it

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(with Vice President Harris providing the 51st vote). Nevertheless, Khanna said of Manchin and Sinema: “My sense is that they will ultimately vote for it, because if one or two senators reject it, they are ... literally rejecting the president’s entire agenda. It’s important to note that the reconciliation bill is not Bernie Sanders’ or Elizabeth Warren’s agenda, it is Joe Biden’s agenda. Everything in that bill is something that President Biden ran on.”

The bill can be sabotaged in the House as well. Nine rightwing House Democrats are trying to do that now.

This battle will likely go on for a while.

Meanwhile, right-wing media and Republican politicians are spreading lies and disinformation about the virus, vaccines, elections, the climate crisis and America’s legacy of racism.

Sometimes the rightwingers are a bit too honest for their own good. Take Jon Taffer, who has a “reality” TV show on the Paramount Network called Bar Rescue. On the show, Taffer visits and rehabilitates bars and restaurants that are failing. This involves a certain amount of yelling and humiliation.

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Price on carbon must be part of this year’s climate legislation

by Susan Secord and Mark Reynolds

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He has become political recently.

He interviewed Donald Trump about COVID-19 restrictions. He went on Laura Ingraham’s show on Fox News to bitch about unemployed workers.

They agreed that the people who have chosen to leave lousy low-paying restaurant jobs should be forced back to work during the pandemic.

Ingraham asked, “What if we just cut off the unemployment? Hunger is a pretty powerful thing.”

Taffer responded: “They only feed a military dog at night, because a hungry dog is an obedient dog. Well, if we are not causing people to be hungry to work, then we’re providing them with all the meals they need sitting at home.”

Not too surprisingly, this conversation sparked a lot of outrage.

However, Republicans in states they controlled cut off federal unemployment benefits in a push to get people back to work. It is debatable how successful they have been. Business Insider cites three separate studies that indicate that cutting off unemployment benefits didn’t lead to substantial job growth.

Incidentally, Taffer accepted two PPP loans totaling $60,858 from the Small Business Association. His hypocrisy is pretty common for many right-wingers. They are anti-government except when they get goodies from taxpayers. The rest of us who aren’t obedient dogs have to deal with them using tactics such as voter suppression, gerrymandering and fascist street brawlers.

Recently, Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson showed us what kind of society he would like to see in the United States. For a week, he broad-

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cast from Hungary where he spoke at a government-sponsored far-right conference. He effusively praised the country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Carlson said, “If you care about Western civilization and democracy and families, and the ferocious assault on all three of those things by the leaders of our global institutions, you should know what is happening here right now.”

Carlson is America’s most popular cable news host. He is an influential figure in the dominant faction of American conservatism. When he tells his viewers that Hungary is a freer country than the United States, it is Orwellian B.S. But what he says matters.

In Salon, Heather Digby Parton notes that Orban “has successfully made it almost impossible for his party to lose elections, with tactics such as rewriting campaign finance laws to benefit his Fidesz party, packing the courts and election bureaucracy with his supporters, extreme gerrymandering, and completely taking over the media.” Fidesz was kicked out of the alliance of center-right European parties for its authoritarianism.

Orban has become notorious for his attacks on academic freedom, freedom of the press and right to dissent.

According to Reporters Without Borders, Orban “has steadily and effectively undermined media pluralism and independence since being returned to power in 2010.”

That is our future if we don’t fight back.

This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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n Aug. 10, the Senate passed a bipartisan infrastructure package that included some meaningful climate measures. To achieve America’s ambitious emissions reduction goal, the legislation included hundreds of billions of dollars on electric vehicle charging stations, funding to upgrade the nation’s energy grid to facilitate the transmission of renewable energy throughout the country and much more. These are positive developments on climate policy, and seeing bipartisan support for them is encouraging.

But the infrastructure deal falls short of including major climate policy. It is looking increasingly likely the biggest climate measures will now happen through the budget reconciliation process. So far, a border adjustment fee, a fee on methane and a clean energy standard have all been discussed publicly.

While this is great progress, one more essential component of impactful climate legislation should also be included in the budget: a price on carbon.

We would like Rep. Neguse and Sens.

Bennet and Hickenlooper to ensure that a robust price on carbon is part of this package of policies. Economists say carbon pricing is “the most cost-effective lever to reduce carbon emissions at the scale and speed that is necessary.”

For us here in Colorado, a policy like this would mean cleaner air, lots more jobs in our clean-energy economy, more stability for our outdoor industry and so much more.

Here are three key reasons why it is essential for the U.S. to include carbon pricing in our strategy to address climate change: First, it puts us on track to net-zero by 2050. The carbon-fee-and-dividend policy prescribed in the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (H.R. 2307) sets a price that starts at $15 a ton of C02 and increases $10 a ton annually.

Resources for the Future calculates that by 2030 this policy will reduce U.S. emissions more than 50% below 2005 levels, which is in line with President Biden’s commitment.

Next, it’s a fast, effective policy across the whole economy. A clean electricity standard would reduce emissions from power plants, but that only accounts for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions. An economy-wide price on carbon, however, reaches into every sector — electricity, transportation, industry, commercial/residential real estate, agriculture l

and land use. It’s also quick to set up, leading to meaningful impact in a matter of months.

Finally, some, or all, of the revenue could be used to give money back to Americans. A carbon tax becomes affordable for ordinary Americans when the money collected from fossil fuel companies is given as a dividend, or “carbon cash back” payment, to every American to spend with no restrictions.

This protects low- and middle-income Americans who otherwise might not be able to afford the transition. Studies show that the monthly carbon cash back payments are enough to essentially cover increased costs of 85% of American households, including 95% of the least-wealthy 60% of Americans.

Beyond those reasons for action here at home, we’re under pressure from other countries that are already pricing carbon. The European Union announced it will impose a carbon border tax, beginning in 2023, on imports from nations that do not have an equivalent carbon price. When this goes into effect, American exporters will be subject to the European carbon tax, placing them at a competitive disadvantage. However, if the U.S. implements its own carbon price and carbon border adjustment, the policy can keep American businesses competitive and motivate more nations to price carbon themselves. The Biden administration has floated a carbon border adjustment, but based on the World Trade Organization’s rules, we would likely need to put a price on carbon here at home, too.

As Congress gets to work on legislation designed to meet America’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it’s clear that a robust price on carbon is an essential tool that must be included.

In the last few weeks, more than 21,000 concerned citizens have reached out to their members of Congress, including Colorado’s Sens. Bennet and Hickenlooper, asking them to support a price on carbon. With our communities increasingly experiencing the effects of climate change, we urge them to take this important step.

Susan Secord is on the Steering Committee of the Boulder chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby. Mark Reynolds is Executive Director of Citizens’ Climate Lobby.

This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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IS CLIMATE CHANGE HERE YET? We need to stop looking at the climate crisis as a far-off problem that threatens only future generations. It’s long past time for us to understand that climate change is here and is destroying lives right now. Much of environmental education presents climate change as a risk to polar bears and a risk to humanity only after a certain rise in global temperatures. We need to get past this mindset.

As a teenager finding a substantial amount of my happiness from nature, the earth has always been a concern of mine. But it took hazy afternoons and flooding where my relatives live to put my eco-anxiety and environmental passion into perspective.

Smoky summer days are becoming increasingly common globally. When the air was so thick last summer that it was dangerous to go outside, I began to wake up to the effects climate change was already having on my life.

This summer, floods in Germany killed a family member of my grandma’s and washed out houses my dad had visited just days ago. The idea that, if those floods had occurred a week earlier, my dad would have been in them, terrified me. My anger towards adults for not taking action to save my future transitioned to fear for me and my loved one’s present.

In areas where the climate crisis is harder to see, like most of Colorado, where I’m lucky enough to live, it’s easy to brush whatever emotions you may have about it away. But the way global warming impacts humanity is becoming more severe and the sooner we wake up to the way it threatens everyone’s lives, no matter where you live and what you believe in, the better.

It’s essential for us to start taking climate action not to avoid global catastrophe in years to come, but to make the earth safer right now. To lower premature deaths caused by unhealthy air. To avoid the worst impacts of (un)natural disasters taking lives at present. And with the side bonus of lowering emissions.

The climate crisis is not just an issue for youth concerned about their futures, or vegans eager to stop animal cruelty. It is a crisis that is occurring right now, and since it has impacts on the environment worldwide, it is affecting or will be affecting everyone. We need to start educating and acting accordingly.

Emma Weber/Boulder

the following public statement directed at you foolish, selfish, anti-science folks during a televised interview on CNN on Aug. 11, 2021: “I think people should know there is a virus here, it kills people. And the only way we prevent it is we get vaccinated, we wear masks, we do social distancing, washing your hands all of the time, and not just to think about it, ‘Well, my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.’

No, screw your freedom. Because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities. ... It’s like, no different than a traffic light. They put the traffic light in the intersection so someone doesn’t kill someone else by accident. You cannot say, ‘No one is going to tell me that I’m going to stop here, I’m going to go right through it.’ Yeah, then you kill someone else. It is the same thing with the virus.

You cannot go and not put the mask on

because when you breathe you can infect someone else, and you can infect someone that then gets sick and may die... We have to come together rather than fighting and always just saying, ‘According to my principles this is a free country and I have the freedom to wear no mask.’ Yeah, you have the freedom to wear no mask, but you know something? You’re a schmuck for not wearing a mask.”

Jake Pickering/California

“YOU’RE A SCHMUCK” Listen up, Republican “girlie men.”

The Republican former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger made BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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Re-indigenizing the story of Bears Ears One man’s mission to bring Indigenous voices to the management of their ancestral lands

by Rico Moore This report was made possible in part by the Fund for Environmental Journalism and the Society of Environmental Journalists.

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ngelo Baca (Diné and Hopi) laced up his running shoes and took off down a trail near his hometown of Blanding, Utah. Angelo’s family and ancestors have known and lived in the region since time immemorial.

To them, the lands known to so many Americans as “public” are their ancestral territory, their homelands.

Angelo stayed present as he ran, calculating each step to avoid a twisted ankle. He wound down a desert wash, weaving a path through sagebrush, piñon and juniper.

But unlike so many people who trail run on public lands, Angelo wasn’t alone: he was being followed. His outspoken leadership on issues related to Indigenous rights and Tribal sovereignty on his ancestral territory — and specifically his advocacy related to the Bears Ears region — had made him a target.

“They were tracking me. I tried to lose them on a couple trails, on different roads, and they still four-wheeled to go to find me,” Angelo says. He went off trail to make sure he was no longer being followed, but knew he was. “There was nothing else out there. It was pandemic time,” he says.

Feeling threatened, he never tried to find out who trailed him. “I’m already way the hell out there.

So it was really easy to make me disappear and have no reason to know why I didn’t come back,” he says.

Fortunately, he escaped.

This happened in the same area where European settlers and the U.S. government killed Indigenous people, put them in concentration camps, forced them to walk miles upon miles away from their homes and stole their land. It was a cultural and physical genocide that traumatized the original caretakers and their descendants for generations to come. “So when there’s hesitancy on our side, it’s because we’ve been hunted. We have been rounded up. We’ve been killed,” Angelo says.

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cultural trauma, Angelo works diligently on behalf of the Indigenous people of the Bears Ears region as the cultural resources coordinator for Utah Diné Bikeyah (UDB), a Native American-led grassroots nonprofit organization working to promote healing of people and the earth through conservation of cultural lands. As part of its efforts, UDB has worked in partnership with the outdoor retailer Patagonia to improve the company’s relationships with Indigenous communities.

He is also completing his Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology at New York University with a dissertation focused on Indigenous representations and narratives of the Bears Ears region from within the communities of the region versus interpretations from outside. As a result, he thinks deeply and often about how stories are told and the impacts that different narratives can have.

Bears Ears National Monument was established by president Obama in December 2016 after a years-long effort led by Tribal leaders that formed the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, comprised of the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Pueblo of Zuni and Ute Indian Tribe. In December 2017, then-President Trump shrunk the boundaries of the monument by 85% (it was later revealed by a New York Times report that oil extraction was a primary factor in this decision). The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition sued the Trump administration over the decision. In a separate AUGUST 19, 2021

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lawsuit, UDB, Patagonia and other groups also sued Trump. President Biden has since requested a report on the monument from Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who in turn recommended the President restore the original boundaries. The Inter-Tribal Coalition recently launched a marketing campaign and requested that President Biden restore and expand the monument boundaries to 1.9 million acres.

Bears Ears is not Bears Ears without its Indigenous people. In the same RICO MOORE way, stories of Bears Ears are naught without centering the voices of Indigenous people. To ignore this history, these stories, re-enacts the white supremacist settlement and colonial dispossession of land, culture and life.

Conversely, to amplify and honor by helping empower Indigenous voices is to move toward restoring what colonialism and extractive capitalism has so insidiously destroyed (and continues to destroy). This can help heal the earth by ensuring the original caretakers are the primary speakers and leaders in the management of their ancestral territories, which are often America’s public lands. Ensuring Indigenous people are among the leaders ANGELO BACA guiding land management and his mother, Ida decisions guarantees they Yellowman, stand before an ancestral have access to the lands, dwelling in the Bears which is in turn healing for Ears region. them.

For example, running runs in Angelo’s blood. His grandfather, Hugh Yellowman, performed a sacred duty for his people by catching deer and killing them without weapons.

Angelo says the object is not to pierce the hide.

“You don’t want to destroy the skin by violence, by shedding their blood, because it’s going to be used in ceremony,” he says.

Bernd Heinrich recorded Angelo’s grandfather’s hunting practices in the book Why We Run. “What I saw was my friend [Hugh] Yellowman (in the 1950s he was about 40 or 45) jogging along on the trail of a deer in semi-open desert country.

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and then sprints again. The hunter, by consistently jogging along the trail left by the animal, eventually tires it out. Then, approaching the exhausted deer, he slowly puts an arm-lock on it and holds his hand over the mouth and nose of the deer, smothering it. His hand is supposed to have corn-pollen in it, which is considered sacred.”

“It’s trying to come to an understanding with the animal once you’re both exhausted,” Angelo says. “‘We’re asking for permission to harvest you now.’ The animal has to agree to it. They have to give up. It’s a really long process and those hides are extremely valuable, because it’s really hard to do that.”

These hides were used in ceremonies, and Angelo’s mother, Ida Yellowman, still uses them in this way. Angelo says this is evidence that the Indigenous people of Bears Ears still frequent the region to hunt and utilize the land for their ceremonial life and subsistence.

“We say that it’s medicine.

It’s not just like, ‘Here’s a plant, eat it,’ No, the fact that she’s got ceremonially harvested deer hides that we’re using for others’ ceremonies — for their healing — it’s other medicine begetting other medicine,” Angelo says.

Preparing for the process of harvesting hides and animals for food is also a ceremonial process dependent upon the lands of the Bears Ears region.

“Back in the day, it was process, it was ceremony,” Angelo says. “They’d go into the sweat lodge, and you’d cleanse yourself for days and prepare, and make sure you didn’t have any interaction with other folks to mess up your balance. You wanted to be focused and concentrate on the task at hand. It was in a prayerful way that you would go and do that harvesting because it’s a very powerful thing that you’re doing, taking a life and harvesting it. It’s actually feeding your family and providing skins for the ceremonies.”

Walking across the rolling desert landscape of the Bears Ears region, Ida Yellowman details how one would cleanse themselves in the absence of water. She says they’d make little sweat lodges (or hogans) and dig a pit by the doorway where a fire would be lit. “Then you heat the rocks outside and you put them into that pit, close it off, and you sweat. ... All of this is healing, not just looking at it, but when you breathe it in, it works inside your body, it cleans your mind. So you’re not only cleaning your bad smell, you’re cleaning your mind, and re-start fresh,” she says. In this way the landscape itself is the source of healing and restoration for the Indigenous people of the region who have taken care of it, so it, in turn, takes care of them.

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Ida’s parents were displaced from Montezuma Creek, Utah, as a result of water contamination and pollution from oil and gas extraction. As a little girl, Ida’s father would take the family up to the Bears Ears plateau, which would provide them with wild meat and vegetables, as well as the aforementioned ceremonial sources, and also land-based origin legends.

This extends to the importance of the Bears Ears region in the healing of historical trauma associated with settler colonialism, Angelo says. “Even just having this as a place, that despite its historical trauma, can be a place to heal historical trauma,” he says, adding that this is missing from the conversation today.

Angelo believes the next logical step is bringing together the disparate communities of public lands users and unifying them around Indigenous

communities. These groups are largely ignorant of the centrality of Indigenous people in the successful millennia-long conservation of the natural environments and biodiversity.

“Because we are the ultimate stewards, we’re the first caretakers. We’re the ultimate champions for protecting the land. We always have been, and how that’s been lost on all these communities who say that they care about the land is beyond me,” Angelo says.

“The president stole your land”

Although the outdoor recreation and conservation communities rarely, if ever, acknowledge the importance of centering Indigenous people in land management decisions and storytelling, there are examples of those who do recognize its critical importance. The resolution of conflict between UDB and the company Patagonia over marketing slogans is one example that shows how narrative and storytelling can ultimately lead to education, healing and strengthened partnerships. l

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Angelo’s organization, UDB, is a recipient of grant funding from the outdoor retail company, Patagonia. But, in 2017, UDB took a stand against Patagonia when the outdoor retailer took aim at the Trump administration’s shrinking of Bears Ears with the slogan “The President Stole Your Land.”

In a 2019 presentation that UDB gave to the Training Resources for the Environmental Community (TREC) titled “Improving your partnerships with U.S. Indigenous Communities,” Angelo reviewed his experience working with Patagonia.

He said Patagonia extending its hand to help with the Bears Ears effort is appreciated, and that this effort has been a learning opportunity. He also said it’s to be expected that mistakes and misunderstandings will happen, and when they arise they should be seen as learning opportunities and worked through constructively.

To this end, Angelo said RICO MOORE he thought a lot of Indigenous communities had a disagreement with Patagonia’s “The President Stole Your Land” marketing campaign because it didn’t account for the Indigenous perspective. “For us it was problematic, especially in the wording and the framing, and having this idea that was very oversimplified,” Angelo said during the TREC training.

“For the Indigenous experience, it’s usually always been something wrong and illegal on a regular basis, even since the very first president, Washington,” Angelo said. “He’s known as ‘town burner’ in the Northeast within the Iroquois League.”

The Iroquois Confederacy served as a basis for the U.S. IDA YELLOWMAN under a juniper tree Constitution, although it rarely receives this recognition. “The in her ancestral Five Nations of the Iroquois homeland in the Bears Ears region. lived under a constitution that had three main principles, peace, equity or justice and ‘the power of the good minds,’ that of the elders over the young,” Professor and Chief Oren Lyons (Onondaga) wrote in the New York Times. In this way, one of the first things settler colonialists stole from Indigenous people was their successful form of governance.

As with the theft of land, there wasn’t reciprocity but violence. In the 2019 UDB presentation, Angelo said that the Iroquois League of Nations had been at a breaking point because of President Washington’s military actions against them. “Basically, they did a scorched-earth campaign, burned down entire crops, entire villages, and just laid see BEARS EARS Page 12

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BEARS EARS from Page 11 ON THE TRAIL waste to one of the strongest coalitions of nations that in Bears Ears, Ida ever existed,” Angelo said. “And to this day they still and Angelo enjoy call every president since, ‘the town burner.’” a quiet moment in Angelo also took issue with another of Patagothe same area their nia’s marketing slogans, “The Largest Protected Land ancestors harvested Grab.” resources.

“Starting with the United States’ 13 colonies really co-opting those lands; the Louisiana purchase in 1803, which is huge, all that land west of the Mississippi being explored by Lewis and Clark; the California gold rush, which brought in thousands of people and really ushered in a new wave of genocide on the West Coast.”

Angelo said it’s important to consider how this historical land dispossession and its impact on generations of Native Americans are reflected in Patagonia’s marketing slogan. Centering Indigenous people in crafting future messages could make them more equitable for Indigenous communities, he suggested.

Following on this, Angelo said that there is a long history of Indigenous presence prior to the arrival of Europeans. Explaining that settler colonialism, which continues today in myriad ways, comes to bear on current issues like Bears Ears. “And so it’s important to understand why the Indigenous perspective is important when we’re talking about these very sensitive issues, such as land,” he said.

As a result, UDB board members and staff provided a “cultural sensitivity training” to Patagonia. UDB also created a Media Orientation and Cultural Sensitivity guide for those creating narratives about Bears Ears to ensure they center Native perspectives.

In an emailed statement to Boulder Weekly, Patagonia wrote that then-President Trump’s reduction of Bears Ears National Monument, cutting its size by 85% in 2017, was illegal and motivated the company “to do everything it could think of to defend our public lands.” As a result, the company led a move of the Outdoor Retailer show from Utah to Colorado, mobilized a public comment campaign to protect national monuments, and joined litigation with the Hopi, Navajo, Ute, Ute Mountain Ute, Zuni Tribes and other groups against Trump’s monument reductions.

Part of this effort was amplifying the message, “The President Stole Your Land.”

Patagonia wrote that, “While those words captured our outrage, they also perpetuated an all-too-common problem: They overlooked the Indigenous communities that led the effort to establish Bears Ears as a national monument in the first place. And while some appreciated those words and the campaign, others did not.”

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from Indigenous peoples well before Trump. It also (once again) obscured Native American history. The response from Indigenous people was humbling and edifying. It was an important lesson for us then and it remains an important lesson for us today.”

Angelo tempered his criticism of Patagonia’s marketing campaign in the TREC training, saying that Patagonia’s response has been amazing. “The Native community has been very grateful to them and their efforts because as you think of an outside entity, an outdoor retailer, taking large steps like that to try to be an ally, and has never done that before, of course there might be little mistakes here and there. I feel like the intentions are good, and we’re all here to learn, and there are RICO MOORE no fingers being pointed in blame,” he said.

In a similarly humble and respectful way, Patagonia responded that it shared its company perspective with UDB leaders. “Since that time, we have worked to strengthen and earn the respect and trust of the Utah Diné Bikéyah and all those we have the privilege and honor to support and partner with.”

Bringing Native voices to the table

As a result of his ongoing collaboration with Patagonia, Angelo says he’s envisioning newer, larger endeavors to be able to serve as examples for other non-Native communities. He asks: What if the federal government and other businesses look to Patagonia as the model? They might follow their example, Angelo says; they might adopt similar cultural competency and respect for Native communities.

Angelo adds it’s easy to paint Patagonia as the bad guy, as a business or corporation. “Settler colonial infrastructure supports capitalism,” he says, “but as we’ve seen, those are on the verge of collapse, unless there are models or demonstrations — examples — of how some kind of homeostasis can be achieved by them, pulling back certain destructive practices, and incorporating other restorative and healing ones.”

“If they want to do it with our guidance and permission, I have no problem with that,” Angelo says of Patagonia.

Based on Angelo’s extensive experience outdoors across the U.S., he’s seen a lot of good people who care about the land. “We can’t detract from their interests in wanting to know more. I think the future is in investing in that love and relationship for the land that they have, because we can’t do it by ourselves, we need everybody on board. That’s where we’re going to have to go into the future: for everybody being on the same page about taking care of these places in coordination with Native communities.”

Patagonia wrote in an e-mailed statement, “Very soon we hope we’ll be able to lift up Indigenous communities and voices in a restoration and hopefully expansion of Bears Ears National Monument.”

Regarding his vision for the monument, Angelo, speaking on his own behalf, says, “It’s about having Indigenous interaction, participation and involvement from beginning to end, from stern to bow. We want to have us at the table making decisions with people that are very important, then drawing the line where we can’t compromise.’”

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Fighting for indoor air quality, mid-fire season With wildfires raging across the country and smoke hanging over Colorado, experts offer DIY solutions for improving air quality inside your home.

by Will Brendza

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020 was a historically bad year for wildfires across the western U.S. And 2021 is on pace to be even worse.

So far, this year, more than 325,000 acres of California, another 125,000 acres of Washington, and a record-setting 540,000 acres of Oregon have already gone up in smoke. Not to mention the nearly 33,000 acres that have burned in Colorado this year.

It’s why this state has been stuck under a thick haze of smoke for so much of the summer. Since May, the Denver Metro Front Range has had more than 53 “Ozone Action Alerts” — more than ever before. And on Monday August 9th, Denver’s air quality made international news, as it briefly became the worst in the world.

Needless to say, those aren’t ideal conditions.

Particle pollution like that of wildfire smoke can cause asthma attacks, heart attacks, strokes and even early deaths according to airnow.gov, which makes improving the air quality in your own home a matter of preserving one’s own health.

“The health hazards associated with smoke are compounded by high ozone,” Bill Hayes, air quality coordinator for Boulder County Public Health (BCPH), said in a statement on Aug. 13.

“The Denver Metro North Front Range, an area already failing to meet federal health-based ozone standards, has now seen 39 consecutive days of ozone action alerts. With both smoke and ozone at dangerous levels, Colorado’s beloved outdoors can be an unhealthy place to be when it comes to your heart and lungs.”

While the outdoor air quality during wildfire season is at the mercy of Mother Nature, indoor air quality (IAQ) can actually be controlled, protected and easily improved. Even before getting a paid professional service involved, there are some DIY things you can do in your own home to make it easier to breathe, starting with awareness.

Signing up for air quality alerts from resources like airnow.gov can help give you a heads up on pollution spikes so you can plan for them. Wildfire smoke particulates pose exceptional health risks to people with pre-existing conditions like asthma or heart disease — for those individuals, having an BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

extra day to prepare for smokey weather can make a big difference.

According to Nate Trail, with To The T Plumbing and Heating, another easy step in improving IAQ at home should seem obvious, but it often gets overlooked: close your doors and windows.

“During fire season, if you’re letting all that smoke just blow in your house all the time, that’s going to be hard on your [home’s air filtration] system and hard on you too,” Trail says. “So try to keep fresh air in and all that smoke out.”

Even after visible smoke has reduced and wildfires have been controlled, sealing the house is important.

Particulates from wildfire smoke can stay in the air for up to two weeks, according to Bob Yokelson, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Montana.

You might not see or smell it, but that pollution is still entering your home if your windows or doors are open and then it’s entering your lungs. Sealing those access points through wildfire season can go a long way in improving IAQ by keeping particulates out.

The City of Boulder backs that up: “Remain inside with the windows and vents sealed” during severe air quality events, it recommends.

Keeping your home clean is another simple way to help improve IAQ, Trail adds. Especially for families or individuals with pets, making sure that there’s less particulates in your carpets and on your home’s surfaces improves the quality of air circulating inside.

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either — which ends up defeating their purpose entirely.

“We get into a lot of homes and some homeowners don’t even know they have filters. It’s been there for several years and they’ve never changed it,” he says. When in fact, filters should be changed every 90-days — or even every 60 days during a bad fire season. The more frequently an individual changes their home’s HEPA or carbon filter out, the better their IAQ will be and the easier they’ll be able to breathe inside their own home.

Which has direct health effects, according to Trail.

The thickness of that filter can make a difference too, he adds.

Counter-intuitively, overly thick filters might seem like a better option, but actually they just choke your home’s HVAC system and pull less air through, offering less filtration capacity.

“Making sure your furnace and your ducts are [regularly] being cleaned helps too,” Trail says.

While it’s not a DIY solution, there are also air purifier systems that can be installed to help actively purify the air inside your home. The REME HALO, for instance, is small, easily installed by a service-provider like Trail, and reduces particulates, odors, bacteria, mold, dust, pollen, dander, smoke and even viruses (COVID-19 included). Trail says that these systems make a tangible difference — you can see it in the house’s air filters, he says. With a REME HALO system, a home’s air filter typically needs to be changed every 30 days instead of 90 or 60.

“Your filter actually gets dirtier sooner because it’s picking up so much more,” Tail explains.

Any one of these precautions will improve IAQ in your home, but in concert, Trail says people will be able to notice a dramatic improvement in their house’s air quality — which can translate to an improvement in their health. With the IPCC’s recent “code red for humanity” report, long smoky wildfire seasons might become the norm across the Western U.S., meaning that IAQ precautions like these are only going to become more useful to employ indoors.

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on like life and living and breathing and being a complete person,” Bertone says. “It really feels like live music is like one of the dominant cultural forces in Boulder. And the way that it’s, like, not just sharing bandwidth with a thousand other things, it’s like something that people are truly passionate about.” the drive from Fort Collins for band practice with LaFond, Carter and Bertone, who all together make up the local indie-rock-pop group Banshee Tree. Their origin story is a bit providential. ta in college in upstate New York, Bertone in Brooklyn, Carter in Boulder. Then they all

“We just ran into each other on the very day where we were both having these thoughts about what are we going to do with our band, what are we going to do with need a band.’ And so the rest is history.”

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2021 MahlerFest features hike, concerts, “decadence and debauchery” Festival returns to Boulder August 24–29, with extras

by Peter Alexander

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Colorado MahlerFest XXXIV

7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 24 Dairy Arts Center: 4 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25, Dairy Arts Center:

4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26 The Academy, 970

Aurora Ave., Boulder: 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27, Huntington Bandshell, 1212 Canyon Boulevard, Boulder:

7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28, Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder:

7 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 29

9 a.m.–3 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 28, License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder:

Information, tickets and registration for free events:

Not that the pandemic hasn’t

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SEP 23 ............................................................................................ ROBERT FRANCIS NOV 27 ................................................................................... SHAKEDOWN STREET

OCT 2 ................................................................... ESSEKS + TSURUDA + CHEE NOV 2 ........................................................................................... YUNG GRAVY

FRI. AUG 20

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FRI. AUG 27 THE AGE GAP TOUR

88.5 KGNU & TERRAPIN CARE STATION PRESENT: ALBUM RELEASE PARTY

HEATHER LAND

FRUTA BRUTAL, B-LOVE EXPERIENCE

LUCINDA WILLIAMS AND HER BAND BUICK 6

BANSHEE TREE

LOST DOG STREET BAND

A FUNDRAISER FOR MENTAL HEALTH

GREYBOY

AIGARS LAPSA

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WED. SEP 8

MATT HECKLER

FRI. SEP 10

HERE COME THE MUMMIES

Bob Margolin Masterclass Blues Workshop.

PHOTO

Roots Music Project, 4747 Pearl St.,

WED. SEP 15

WED. AUG 25

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TERRAPIN CARE STATION PRESENTS

DAWN RICHARD

ELDERBROOK

PURITY RING THU. SEP 16

88.5 KGNU & UPSLOPE BREWING COMPANY PRESENT

GILLIGAN MOSS

CIRCLES AROUND THE SUN

FRI. AUG 27

RICKIE LEE JONES

SAT. SEP 18 AN EVENING WITH

ACOUSTIC AMBUSH SAT. AUG 28

THU. SEP 23 88.KGNU + PARTY GURU PRODUCTIONS

DIRTWIRE

GONE GONE BEYOND, BLOSSOMN

THE INTOLERABLES LAUREN JOY, DJ SULLY

FRI. OCT 1 ROOSTER & PARTY GURU PRODUCTIONS PRESENT: DAYMAKER TOUR

FLAMINGOSIS MON. OCT 4 DISTORTION AND BLUE HEARTS!

BOB MOULD BAND

THU. SEP 2

SLOW CAVES

88.5 KGNU & TERRAPIN CARE STATION PRESENT

THU. OCT 7

TOWN MOUNTAIN

PAT METHENY SIDE-EYE W/ JAMES FRANCIES & JOE DYSON

WED. SEP 8

CHANNEL 93.3 PRESENTS: THE MOTION PICTURE SHOW – DIRECTOR’S CUT

ROOSTER & PARTY GURU PRODUCTIONS PRESENT

MINNESOTA VCTRE

FRI. OCT 8

MON. OCT 18 107.9 KBPI PRESENTS: THE HUN TOUR

THE HU

THE HAUNT THE CELTIC CONNECTION, 88.5 KGNU & BOULDER WEEKLY PRESENT: THE HOME FROM HOME TOUR

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WILD RIVERS

THE HIGH KINGS THU. OCT 21 97.3 KBCO PRESENTS

AN ACOUSTIC NIGHT WITH DISPATCH

LINDSEY LOMIS

SPECIAL GUEST: EMELISE

THU. SEP 16

SAT. OCT 23 97.3 KBCO PRESENTS

JOHN HIATT & THE JERRY DOUGLAS BAND

ROOSTER PRESENTS

MERSIV

SUN. OCT 24

SMOAKLAND, SPECIAL GUEST, MEDUSO FRI. SEP 17

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DAR WILLIAMS HEATHER MALONEY TUE. OCT 26

CHRISTIAN FRENCH SARAH BARRIOS

4-9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, Outworld Brewing, 1725 Vista View Drive, Longmont.

Outworld Brewing Master Brewer Mike Hall is crafting a special blood-orange witbier that will premiere at the Colorado Festival of Horror (COFOH) Beer Launch Party on Aug. 21, as well as being available at the COFOH convention this September (10-12, Embassy Suites by Hilton Central Park, 4444 N. Havana St., Denver). Plans for the launch party include a meet and greet with artist Xander Smith, a Longmont native and Hollywood concept artist. There will be a live acoustic performance from Brian Bonsall, child actor from Star Trek The Next Generation and Family Ties Mikey.

97.3 KBCO PRESENTS

THE DEL MCCOURY BAND FRI. OCT 29 SOME CREATURE TOUR

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Outworld Brewing hosts the ‘Elixir Immortus’ Beer Launch Party.

SAINT MOTEL

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Eventbrite.

Bob Margolin is a blues guitar player and singer who tours worldwide with his band, solo, or as a featured guest.

He delivers orginal songs and the spirit of Chicago Blues that he learned onstage and recording in Muddy Waters’ band from 1973-1980. Margolin is known for his slide guitar, powerful vocals and the sound, stories and time travel of his experiences with the legends he knew. Join us for an intimate masterclass workshop with Margolin at the funky Roots Music Project warehouse in Boulder. Sit back and enjoy Margolin’s stories, tips and a guaranteed good time. No guitar is needed. All ages. Margolin has requested all attendees show proof of vaccine or receipt of negative COVID test.

SAT. OCT 30

Chalkmont.

4-8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, Downtown Longmont,

97.3 KBCO & BELL’S BREWERY PRESENT

ROOSTER, PARTY GURU PRODUCTIONS & TERRAPIN CARE STATION PRESENT

YHETI

THE MOTET - HALLOWEEN 2021 SUN. OCT 31 SWIMMING WITH THE CLOUDS TOUR

HONEYBEE, THOUGHT PROCESS WED. SEP 22

WHETHAN

NOV 4 ...... BILLY PRINE & THE PRINE TIME BAND PRESENT: SONGS OF JOHN PRINE NOV 17 ............................................................................................. CARIBOU NOV 18 .................................................................................. BRETT DENNEN NOV 19 ............................................................. THE LAST WALTZ REVISITED

More than a dozen community artists will join together to create chalk art throughout Downtown Longmont on Main Street. Artists will be located on Main Street and in the breezeways Downtown between Third and Sixth avenues. Artists will turn concrete into a vivid canvas of colorful chalk art. Enjoy live art, music and local artisan vendors in a small enough crowd to maintain social distancing.

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22nd Annual Lafayette Peach Festival.

8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, North parking lot on Waneka Parkway West of Public Road, Lafayette.

The 22nd Annual Lafayette Peach Festival centers around world famous, all-natural Palisade peaches. Enjoy peach pies and peach cobblers, food vendors, crafters, artists from the Front Range and Western States — plus, children’s activities.

eTown’s Pay or Play: August Edition.

7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 24, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder.

Tickets: $20, etown.org The monthly “Pay or Play” events at eTown are based on birthdays of well-known songwriters. For August’s show, eTown has selected the following songwriters to highlight: Buck Owens, Elvis Costello, Jeff Tweedy, John Lee Hooker, Kacey Musgraves, Mark and Robert Plant. To attend in-person, either perform a song by one of the performers above, or purchase a 70% capacity. To request to perform, please visit to etown.org

YWCA Boulder County Grand opening of Persimmon Early Learning.

3-5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, Persimmon Early Learning of YWCA Boulder County, 2222 14th St., Boulder.

The event will also allow YWCA volunteers, families, donors, program participants and community partners to tour the fully renovated indoor facilities of YWCA Boulder County. The event will begin at 3 p.m. with an open house and refreshments on the large playground.

Guest speaker Congressman Joe Neguse will address the urgent need for affordable, high-quality child care in Boulder County and beyond as well as how safe, affordable child care is essential to getting parents back to work and growing and funder presentations scheduled for 4:20 p.m.–5 p.m.

Liquid Mechanics Brewing Seventh Anniversary Party and Outdoor Music Festival.

1-11 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20 and noon-11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, Liquid Mechanics Brewing, 297 U.S.-287, Suite 100, Lafayette.

WIth more than 20 beers on tap and seven bands playing over two days on an outdoor stage, Liquid Mechanics Seventh Anniversary Party is where you want to be this weekend. Friday is co-headlined by VanCruelen (Mötley Crüe and Van Halen tribute band) and Guerrilla Radio (Rage Against the Machine tribute band). Bands on stage Saturday include Seeing Stars (Jerry rock trio), and Rogue 2 (stomp rock). Friday there is a $15 cover charge starting public. There will be special release beers on both days.

Open Range Competition Teams Summer Day Camps Classes & Private Lessons

Target & Hunting Full Service Retail Pro Shop & Service Recurve & Compound

High Altitude Archery 455 Weaver Park Rd #500 Longmont, CO 80501 720-491-3309

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Cindy Brandle Dance Company: ‘Project Human.’

Friday, Aug. 20 and Saturday, Aug. 21, Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $10-$25.

Held at the Gordon Gamm Theater, the third installment of Cindy Brandle Dance Company’s “A World On Fire” series will delve into the resilience of humans, the ongoing process of rising, and the continued demand to combat hatred, discrimination and marginalization. Combining modern dance performance, Project Human will take the audience on an impassioned journey. Due to the latest announcement from the CDC, the highly-contagious Delta variant, and us wanting to keep everyone safe, the theater will remain at 65% capacity, and masks will be required while inside the theater.

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The Upstart Crow Theatre Co. presents The Diaries of Adam and Eve. Aug. 19-29, Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $21-$25.

How might it be to live as the first woman? To wonder at the beauty of the stars, just out of reach? Wandering the Earth discovering the mountains and the plains, the brontosaurus and the parrots? How might it be to live as the first man? To sleep for 22 out of the 24 hours in a day, not to give much care about anything, and to be basically irritated by everything, woman? Join us as we walk along through the evolution of the first love story, as Adam and Eve live incidentally with each other until, as a consequence of eating from the tree of knowledge, they begin to love each other and more.

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Thursday, Aug. 19

Picnic on the Plaza: Graciella Alvarado. Noon. Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Road, Lafayette. Free.

Roots & Rhythm : Blues Underground. 8 p.m. The Louisville Underground, 640 Main St., Louisville. TIckets: $10-$15.

The Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder. Free.

Friday, Aug. 20

The Johnny O Band. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Free.

Dave Tamkin & Co. 6 p.m. St Julian Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder. Free.

Jonathan Saraga Sextet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder. Tickets: $15.

The Jayhawks with Gasoline Lollipops Acoustic Trio. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 198 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder. Tickets: $28–$43.

8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.

Banshee Tree Album Release. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $15-$18.

Saturday, Aug. 21

Matt G Funkma$ter. 3 p.m. Dickens 300 Prime Patio, 300 Main St., Longmont. Free.

The Steeldrivers with Woodbelly. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 198 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder. Tickets: $28–$43.

An Evening with Lovers Leap. 5:30 p.m. Stone Cross streets of Seventh tickets are purchased. Tickets: $25-$30, stonecottagestudios.com

Sunday, Aug. 22

Cary Morin and Ghost Dog. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center parking lot, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $20.

Wylie “Crazy Horse” Jones. Noon. Dickens 300 Prime, 300 Main St., Longmont. Free.

Monday, Aug. 23

Moors & McCumber. 5:30 p.m. Gold Hill Pub, 531 Main St. Boulder.

Tickets: $50.00

Wednesday, Aug. 25

‘Life Lessons’ Album Release: Tim O’Brien, Bill Frisell, Dale Bruning 7 p.m. $10, etown.org Elderbrook. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $18-$20.

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n Jan. 1, 2020, Wuhan, China, welcomed a new year and a new decade. That same day, Chinese state media announced that eight individuals were arrested in conjunction with spreading rumors about a new form of pneumonia. Twenty-two days later, Wuhan locked down with hopes of containing the novel coronavirus.

So opens In the Same Breath, the latest documentary from Nanfu Wang. Using

against the virus on the frontlines and the simultaneous suppression of information via state media. Chillingly, Wang and editor Michael Shade cut together various broadcasts, each anchor delivering the same information in the same robotic intonation.

Wang does not live in China anymore. She left its totalitarian grip years ago for the country that prides itself on free speech. But, as Wang depicts in the second half of Breath, the coronavirus narrative supplied by the U.S. government wasn’t much better than China’s, and major media channels were just as complicit.

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wholly new to fear. As Wang says, she’s lived under one authoritarian regime in her life and has no interest in living under another. The coronavirus pandemic will end, but it may give birth to something different. Something worse.

By their nature, movies are past events projected in the present tense. Much of Breath is familiar to anyone who’s had an eye on the news these past 18 months. You could dismiss it as old hat, but here we are: masking up passports. History repeats itself, sure, but must the interval come so close together?

You could ask the same of another ongoing crisis, this one the subject of Lucy Walker’s Bring Your Own Brigade.

In 2018, Walker — a European residing in California — decided to make a movie about why Californians live in areas beleaguered by

Can movies solve our problems?

Two new documentaries tackle ongoing crises

by Michael J. Casey ON THE BILL: In the Same Breath is currently streaming on HBO Max; Bring Your Own Brigade on Paramount+ starting Aug. 20.

to the Thompson Fire, the largest in state history up to that point. But while digging through Thompson’s ashes, the Camp Fire north of Paradise broke out and moved stat that may be incorrect by month’s end.

Meanwhile, 500 miles south, the Woolsey Fire north of Malibu also claimed lives (3) and structures (1,600). And though the regions were similar, the population of Paradise and Malibu couldn’t be more disparate.

Why one population walked away with so little while the other saved so much is the crux of BYOB. It’s a powerful piece of work, if somewhat unwieldy at times — which Walker uses to her advantage: There is no one answer to a crisis, no one reaction to devastation.

Though the heart of BYOB live with it gives the movie its soul. Here, these two docs intersect and deal with forces hard to contain, harder still to understand. Both are mired by truths, half-truths, assumptions, anomalies, nipulate the messages, Walker does an equally good job showing how that happens individually.

Fascinatingly, both conclude with a similar observation: To live in a world, to exist freely, we must pill to swallow. For many more, the current option is far more toxic.

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: A blogger who calls herself

TheSaddestChorusGirlInTheWorld writes, “Having sex with someone is a big deal and involves a ton of vulnerability.

And I think it’s troubling and gross and unhealthy and, yes, dangerous that we pretend otherwise and encourage people to ‘be mature’ by compartmentalizing or completely eliminating their deeper emotions from their sexuality. And even worse, any other view is dismissed as prudish and invalid and unenlightened and restrictive.” You may agree with everything TheSaddestChorusGirl says here. But if you haven’t arrived at her conclusions, now is a good time to meditate on them. Why? Because your assignment in the coming weeks is to deepen and refine your relationship with your sexuality. Be extra reverent about your sensual longings. Ensure that your erotic activities serve your highest ideals and noblest goals.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: The popular American TV sitcom 30

Rock produced 138 episodes in seven seasons. At the height of its success, it crammed an average of 9.57 jokes into every minute. Its comic richness derived in large part from multi-talented Taurus star Tina Fey, who created the show and played one of its main characters. She was also a writer and executive producer. I propose we make her your role model in the coming weeks. According to my projections, you’re entering a charismatic, ebullient and creative phase of your astrological cycle. It’s time to be generous to the parts of your life that need big happy doses of release and liberation.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: I got an email from a Gemini reader

named Jaylah. She wrote, “Hi, not sure if you remember me, but in our past lives, you and I used to write sacred cuneiform texts on clay tablets while sitting across from each other in a cave in Mesopotamia 4,910 years ago.

Your name was Nabu. Mine was Tashmetu. I was always a little jealous because you earned more money than I, but it didn’t get in the way of our friendship. Anyway, if you ever want to catch up about the old days, give me a holler.” I loved receiving this inquiry from a soul I may have known in a previous incarnation. And what she did by reaching out to me happens to be the perfect type of activity for you Geminis right now. Secrets of your history may be more available than usual. The past may have new stories to tell. A resource from yesteryear could prove valuable in the future.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Cancerian-born Franz Kafka was an interesting writer and a master of language. But even for him, it could be a challenge to convey what he really meant.

He said, “I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.” Now here’s the good news, as far as you’re concerned, Cancerian: I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will have more power than usual to do exactly what Kafka aspired to do. You will be able to summon extra ease and grace in expressing your truths. I invite you to be a connoisseur of deep conversations.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: “If we wait until we are ready, we will be

waiting for the rest of our lives,” declared novelist Lemony Snicket. This is good advice for you to heed right now. I really hope you avoid the temptation to wait around for the perfect moment before you begin. In my vision of your best approach, you will dive into the future without trying to have all your plans finalized and all your assets gathered. I expect you will acquire the rest of what you need once the process is underway.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Author Katherine Mansfield once told her friend Virginia Woolf, “You put me in touch with my own soul.” I’m sorry Mansfield didn’t previously have that precious connection, but I’m elated that Woolf helped her make

it. In the coming weeks, I expect you will encounter an abundance of influences like Woolf: people and animals and places and experiences that can bring you into more intimate contact with your soul. I hope you take full advantage.

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: At the age of 70, Libran novelist Magda Szabó mused, “I know now, what I didn’t then, that affection can’t always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else.” In that spirit, Libra, and in accordance with astrological omens, I authorize you to express affection in lively, unruly, demonstrative ways. Give yourself permission to be playfully imaginative, exuberantly revelatory and vivaciously animated as you show the people and animals you cherish the nature of your feelings for them.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Do you Scorpios lie to yourselves more than the other signs lie to themselves? Are you especially prone to undermine yourselves through self-deception?

I don’t think so. However, you might be among the signs most likely to mislead or beguile other people. (But here’s a caveat: On some occasions, your trickery is in a good cause, because it serves the needs of the many, not just yourself.) In any case, dear Scorpio, I will ask you to minimize all such behavior during the next five weeks. I think your success will depend on you being exceptionally honest and genuine — both to yourself and to others.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “I like being broken,” says Sagittarius actor Jamie Campbell Bower. “It means I can have chocolate for breakfast.” I guess that when he feels down, he gives himself special permission to enjoy extra treats and privileges. According to my assessment of the astrological omens, you now have the right to give yourself similar permission — even though I don’t expect you’ll be broken or feeling down. Think of it as a reward for the brave work you’ve been doing lately. Enjoy this chocolatey grace period!

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972)

was a Jewish theologian born under the sign of Capricorn.

He wrote, “Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.” That’s a different definition of sin from what we’re used to! To be a moral person, Heschel believed, you must be in “radical amazement” about the glories of creation. I hope you will cultivate such an attitude in the coming weeks, Capricorn. It would be a mistake for you to numbly take things for granted. I dare you to cultivate as much awe, reverence and adoration as you can muster.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: A blogger who calls herself Hopeful

Melancholy wrote a message to her lover. She said, “My favorite sexual position is the one where you work on your paintings and I work on my book, but we’re in the same room and occasionally smile at each other.” You might want to consider trying experiments comparable to that one in the coming weeks, Aquarius. The time will be fertile for you and your dear allies to work side-by-side; to cheer each other on and lift each other up; to explore new ways of cultivating companionship and caring for each other.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Dick Dudley was a 17th-century swin-

dler. Among his many victims was the Pope. Dudley offered an item for sale that he claimed was a divine relic: a piece of the beard of St. Peter, founder of the Roman Catholic Church. The Pope paid Dudley a small fortune for the treasure, and kissed it copiously. Only later did the full story emerge: The so-called beard was in fact a sex worker’s pubic wig. I hope you don’t get involved in switcheroos like that anytime soon, Pisces. Make sure that the goods or services you’re receiving — and offering, for that matter — are exactly what they’re supposed to be.

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did nothing while your boundaries were violated in front of him — or if he violated your boundaries himself — then Dear Dan: Is it ever OK to stop there’s an asshole in this marriage, being GGG? MYBOD, and it ain’t you. But seeing as I’ve been with my husband for 26 you’re still with your husband and still years. Shortly after we got together, interested in having vanilla sex with my husband disclosed a major kink: him, I’m gonna assume your husband MMF threesomes. I was young and a recognized how he failed you on those virgin and up for anything then, but we occasions when you were violated and didn’t start hooking up with other men that he’s shown remorse, apologized until around year six of our relationspecifically and profusely, and made ship. Over the last 20 years we’ve been whatever changes he needed to make on-and-off with this. We had children, for you to feel safe with him. If he’s we took a break, and we found the time done none of those things — if he to go wild now and then. My husband’s hasn’t done all of those things — you interests expanded into dominance should leave him. play — owning me and sharing me Zooming out for new readers: GGG — but I’m in my late 40s now and my stands for “good, giving, husband is in his 50s. I’m ROMAN ROBINSON game.” As in, “good in approaching menopause bed, giving of pleasure and my sex drive has and game for anything — decreased. There were within reason.” I believe also instances where I we should be GGG for was basically sexually our partners and that our assaulted — or at the very partners should be GGG least, my boundaries were for us. Being GGG, hownot respected on more ever, does not mean doing than one occasion. Long whatever your partner story short, I want to be wants. That’s why the final done being kinky. I want G has always come with my body to be mine. My that italicized-for-emphahusband and I have been sis qualifier: “game for having other marital problems, and anything — within reason.” Being game he thinks my rejection of his kinkiness means recognizing your partner will is a rejection of him. I’ve told him I’m have sexual interests that you don’t still interested in sex, I’m just tired of share and being up for giving those being GGG. He says he isn’t interestthings a try — so long as they’re reaed in vanilla sex with me because he sonable. “Reasonable” is a subjective is “disappointed.” When I told him to standard, of course, and we all get to outsource his kink, he said, “Good luck decide for ourselves what may or may finding that as a married man.” Am I not be reasonable. ever allowed to retire from his kink? Am Back to you, MYBOD. A kink for I the asshole here?

MMF threesomes is not a thing for feet —My Years Being Obedient Done or light spanking. It’s a big ask. And if your husband knew he needed MMF Dear MYBOD: First and most imthreesomes to feel sexually fulfilled, portantly, if your husband stood by and

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sharing that when he did — early in the relationship — was the right thing for him to do. He laid his kink cards on the table before you got married, before you had kids and when you could easily walk away. You didn’t walk away. You told him you were open to the idea — you told him you were one of those rare “up for anything” virgins — and he didn’t rush you into anything. Six years went by before you had your first threesome. And while MMF threesomes probably aren’t something you would’ve sought out on your own, MYBOD, I’m hoping you enjoyed some of them — you know, the ones that didn’t involve boundary violations so egregious that you experienced them not as sexual adventures you were having with your husband, but as sexual assaults your husband participated in and Jesus Fucking Christ on the Cross.

In all honesty, MYBOD, I’m having a hard time getting past those boundary violations. But seeing as you got past them — seeing as you’re still interested in being with your husband — I’m going to continue to assume he somehow made things right and advise you accordingly. If he didn’t make things right, disregard my advice and divorce the motherfucker already.

Alright, you asked me if you can stop being GGG, MYBOD, and my answer is no. I think you should continue being GGG. That doesn’t mean you have to continue having MMF threesomes with your husband. You can decide you’re done with that — you can take them off the menu permanently — while still being GGG in other ways.

You’re also allowed to be done with Dom/sub play. (Your husband never owned you and your body was never his to share. That was naughty dirty talk you indulged in, not a deed of sale you have to honor.) And doing what you’re doing — giving your partner permission to get a specific sexual need met elsewhere — is one way a person can be GGG. There’s this need, this kink of his,

that’s important to him — so important he brought up early on — and you met that need for a long time but can’t meet it anymore. But you’re good enough, giving enough and game enough to give him your blessing to get his kink on with other people. So you haven’t stopped being GGG. You’re being GGG in a different way now.

And just as you’re not obligated to have kinky sex with your husband, MYBOD, your husband is not obligated to have vanilla sex with you. If you think he’s withholding sex right now because he’d disappointed, well, maybe you can see how it might be disappointing and give him a little time to get over it. But if, on the other hand, you think he’s withholding sex to manipulate you into having threesomes again, MYBOD, that’s a deeply shitty thing to do and you should leave him.

P.S. Please show this to your husband, MYBOD: Dude. GET OVER YOUR DISAPPOINTMENT ALREADY. You had a good run. I hope you’re grateful and I hope you found some way to make up for boundary violations.

Assuming you did: The sooner you stop fucking sulking and start fucking looking, the sooner you’ll find couples seeking male thirds. And you know those couples are out there because you and your wife used to be one of those couples. And far from being a stumbling block, the fact that you’re married is a selling point for many couples seeking thirds. (A married or partnered man is seen as less threatening for obvious reasons.) And I don’t know if you’ve been online recently, but hot daddies are very much in demand these days, and dominant daddies get a lot of play. Your wife isn’t taking your kink from you. She’s telling you to get this need met elsewhere. You are not being wronged. Stop being a baby and an ingrate. Jesus!

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o sooner had the crunchy nugget touched my mouth than a chill went up my spine and I stopped — looked at my sister and my son — and sighed. A smile consumed my face as I absorbed that fried clam and shared a lobster salad roll at a picnic table outside Carol’s Dairy Bar in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

Remembrance of fried clams past

You can’t go home again, except through your taste buds

by John Lehndorff There’s something about the sweetness of freshly fried, whole belly clams paired with relish-laced tartar sauce that punched my golden ticket to the past. I was physically back in time on a summer road trip dinner stop with my family.

I was only dragged back to 2021 by the roar nearby intersection and two people yelling in thick local accents.

Such is the power of taste and aroma memory to cut through the current mental clutter and take us away. occasionally in Colorado, but they can’t taste the way they do at sea level in my home town.

I had headed to New England because my

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mom’s sister, Josie, was celebrating her 100th birthday with a family reunion at her longtime Connecticut home.

No quiet, sleepy elder, Aunt Josie held court for seven hours while many of the younger family members showed signs of party fatigue and left. Having survived two pandemics, two world wars and so much loss in her 10 decades, I wondered what her secret was (beyond walking every day and having a close family). She leaned her head toward mine, gazed into my eyes and whispered: “Chocolate.”

I asked whether she liked milk or dark? “It doesn’t matter as long as it’s every day,” she said.

During the trip I showed my son my home town — Main Street, the schools, the woods in the neighborhood. The big white house I grew up in is now sadly smaller and more claustrophobic than I remembered.

I paused near the kitchen where I learned to cook started down a food-writing path.

Only food has the power to affect time travel and take you home. That’s why taste buds are our tour guides. At New England farm stands, restaurants and stores, I gravitated toward the memory foods from butter and sugar, corn and fresh tomatoes, to fresh blueberries and Table Talk Pies. Eating by the Connecticut River erased the decades of distance as did two scoops of maple-y walnut ice cream at a stand near Long Island Sound.

I know that many former Boulder residents seek certain culinary signposts when they visit, yearning to taste things they took for granted when they lived here.

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In his “Remembrance of Things Past” — also translated as “In Search of Lost Time” — French author Marcel Proust wrote about how he felt when he tasted a cookie

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Ironically, another smoking argument now consumes Boulder. It involves whether consenting adults can gather in a club or restaurant to smoke cannabis and inhale secondhand cannabis smoke.

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ON TAP: Keith Villa serves up cannabis-infused non-alcoholic beer via CERIA Brewing. ceriabrewing.com

CERIA Brewing’s Keith Villa brings cannabis to beer drinkers.

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or Keith Villa, it started about a decade ago, when Colorado legalized recreational cannabis.

“At that point, I started doing some home experiments,” Villa says. “I was still with Molson Coors/Blue Moon back then [see Boulder Weekly Beer, Aug. 12, for more], and it became clear that they did not want any part of cannabis — even though it was legal in Colorado. They said that they would never get into it because it’s federally illegal.”

Though legal in 19 states as of publication, cannabis remains a Schedule I drug in the eyes of the federal government. And since breweries are regulated through the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), it’s no surprise that a multi-national corporation didn’t want experiments in Colorado jeopardizing its international brand.

Alright, Villa thought, I’ll continue to experiment at home and see what happens.

What happened was CERIA Brewing — Villa’s cannabis-focused brewing venture launched with wife Jodi in 2018 after retiring from Coors.

“We said: ‘Let’s bring cannabis to the people in a way, a format, that’s easy to consume and that’s familiar to them,” Villa recounts. “Beer has been with us for thousands of years. People know how to drink it. Our Western culture is such that we almost always have a drink in our hands as we’re socializing.

“So we said: Let’s use beer. That’ll be our vehicle to bring cannabis to the masses,” Villa continues. But there

were hurdles to cross. First: “You cannot put cannabis in an alcoholic beer. It’s got to be non-alcoholic, so I had to create recipes for non-alcoholic beers that actually tasted good — because most non-alcoholic beers don’t taste good.” cannabis extract water-soluble “because it’s an oily substance and it’ll either be a clump down at the bottom, Third, they had to build a new brand, one not related to a previous alcoholic manufacturer. For that, Villa drew inspiration from the Roman goddess of agriculture, Ceres, and trademarked CERIA as a non-alcoholic beer because “you can’t trademark anything with cannabis.”

Legal hurdles are one thing. Technical ones, like getting cannabis emulsions into the beer, dosing it properly, making it taste good, etc., that’s where things get interesting. And it starts with emulsions. Cannabis extracts are slippery, oily substances, and beer is 90-95% water.

Trying to get the two to play nicely isn’t easy but can be two liquids that usually don’t mix.

“CBD, CBG, THC — you can use these emulsions to carry the cannabinoids into a liquid and have it stay there,” Villa says. “When we started, that didn’t really all that stuff out.”

That included what to do about the hydrophobic polymer can liners found in standard aluminum cans: “The liner is an organic compound that just so happens

to have the qualities cannabinoids love and will just stick sions slippery enough that they don’t stick to the liner.

But, there are still people who don’t know that getting into the industry [who] run into that issue.”

That’s why Villa took what he learned while developing CERIA and set it down in Brewing with Cannabis: Using THC and CBD in Beer.

“When we started CERIA, we didn’t have a blueprint to follow,” Villa explains. “It was all trial and error, and it took a long time.” Additionally, “It’s a category that’s changing almost daily.”

Villa went into the project knowing that by the time Brewing with Cannabis would be published, some of the material would already be out of date. Regardless, “We need to at least have a starting point for brewers to pick up a book and have a blueprint or guide,” Villa says.

But Brewing with Cannabis is not just for commercial brewers; Villa’s written it for anyone interested in using it on a personal level: “How to make it water-soluble to put in their morning coffee, or their tea. You can do that with this book.”

Brewing with Cannabis: Using THC and CBD in Beer was recently released by Brewers Publications excerpt in this week’s Cannabis Corner on page 37.

Next week: More with Villa on dosing, beer styles that lend themselves better to cannabis and, of course, a word on seltzer.

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TASTE OF THE WEEK: Mell Vodka & Palisade peaches @ home

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‘Learning from the past’ An excerpt from ‘Brewing with Cannabis: Using THC and CBD in Beer’

by Keith Villa Editor’s note: Did you know the Ford Motor Company once built a car using hemp, soybeans and other agricultural crops? And that they were exploring ways to get off fossil fuels by using biofuel derived from hemp plants? And that this was happening in the late-1930s/early-’40s?

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es, the history of cannabis is loaded with tidbits, false starts, politics and megalomaniacs. From William Randolph Hearst, the egotistical publisher whose newspapers launched the cannabis smear campaign to keep hemp from being a competitor to the timber industry, to Harry J. Anslinger, commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics — personally appointed to the position by Andrew Mellon, his uncle by marriage. In addition to being the then-Secretary of the Treasury, Mellon’s business was banks, and Mellon Bank was the majority owner of Gulf Oil Corporation, which was supplying the burgeoning auto industry with automakers explored biofuel 80 years ago? As the saying goes: Follow the money.

Keith Villa’s new book, Brewing with Cannabis: Using THC and CBD in Beer (Brewers Publications), opens with these kinds of stories to better understand the present and future uses of cannabis, particularly as it relates to the brewing process.

Below is an excerpt from Brewing with Cannabis, with permission from Brewers Publications. Find it now wherever beer and brewing books are sold. And check back here in two weeks for an interview with Villa on the wait for cannabis research.

CANNABIS AND BEER: LEARNING FROM THE PAST In addition to being home to one of the first legal recreational marijuana markets in the U.S., Colorado is also home to the headquarters of the American Homebrewers Association and the Brewers Asso-

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ciation. Interestingly, American homebrewers were some of the first innovators to experiment with marijuana beers (Ed Rosenthal, Marijuana Beer). These early adopters were most likely aware of the illegality of marijuana but forged ahead with putting it into smallbatch homebrews, showing that beers containing active THC can be made successfully.

In contrast to homebrewers, commercial craft brewers can only operate if they have a brewing permit issued by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), an agency of the Department of the Treasury, and so are very aware that they could lose their permit and livelihood if they brew with anything that is illegal under federal laws. However, this is not to insinuate that today’s craft brewers are standing by idle, waiting for federal legalization. Although this topic will be covered in other chapters, many craft breweries have either produced beers with cannabis terpenes to mimic the smell of marijuana (e.g., Hemperor Pale Ale by New Belgium Brewing Company), brewed with CBD (e.g., George Washington’s Secret Stash by Dad’s and Dude’s Breweria), or produced non-alcoholic beers with psychoactive THC (e.g., Grainwave by CERIA Brewing Company).

It should be noted that non-alcoholic beers avoid excess federal scrutiny by not having alcohol, which allows brewers to experiment with cannabis in a limited way. Craft brewers have pioneered efforts in this area and will continue to forge new paths as more and more states move to fully legalize marijua-

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na. However, it is necessary to provide a warning in regard to combining cannabinoids with alcohol in any concentration. The functionality of cannabinoids will be discussed further in chapter five, but it is enough to note here that it is very clear cannabinoids cause known and unknown reactions in the human body. For example, THC will lead to intoxication; whereas CBD will lead to the calming of nausea and is used in the treatment of seizures in children with severe forms of epilepsy. Numerous other cannabinoids also cause reactions, independently or in conjunction with the effects of THC and CBD. Since conclusive proof does not yet exist as to the actions and interactions of all of the cannabinoids in marijuana, brewers with interest in this area should keep in mind an event in the not too distant past where beverage manufacturers combined alcoholic beverages with caffeine. In 1999, when young people were experimenting with ways to keep the party going all night, they found that caffeinated energy drinks worked well when mixed with spirits, such as vodka, allowing them to stay buzzed without going to sleep. Soon after, brewers started to create “energy beers,” which were simple, ready-to-drink energy drinks with alcohol. The most popular among these was Four Loko, which, by 2008, came packaged in 24-ounce cans that “contained the equivalent of two Red Bulls and four normal beers.” As these powerful drinks became more popular, the press reported an alarming increase in blackouts and date rapes, and also hospitalizations caused by potentially lethal blood alcohol levels.

Eventually, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration publicly clarified that alcoholic beverages with added caffeine are a public health concern and should be removed from the market.

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A win for the state, a model for the country

USDA approves Colorado’s State Hemp Plan, providing local hemp farmers more flexibility — and Polis believes it will set the standard

by Will Brendza

W

hen industrial hemp farming was legalized in 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) stipulated that any state, territory or tribe that wanted to participate had to create their own administrative plans for regulation.

Colorado’s “State Hemp Plan” was drafted and submitted in June of 2020 — and the USDA subsequently sent the Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) back to the drawing board.

The hemp plan needed work, the USDA asserted, but it wasn’t beyond revision.

Now, more than 18 months after that original draft was snubbed, after extensive negotiations, the USDA Hemp Plan. While it unfortunately doesn’t eliminate the role of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in Colorado’s hemp industry, it does offer hemp farmers a little Gov. Jared Polis, Commissioner Kate Greenburg and Plan on Aug. 10.

“Colorado is the undisputed leader in the cannabis industry, and our hemp plan is a model for the country,” said Gov. Polis. “Hemp is a versatile crop, an economic engine that supports jobs and our agriculture industry.

We look forward to seeing how hemp can be further developed for fuel, food and other uses while being a source of revenue for family farms.”

That rule required hemp farmers’ raw product be randomly tested for THC within 15 days of harvest, by a DEA-compliant lab — of which there were only two in Colorado. If samples of their crop tested anywhere above .3% THC, not only could it not be sold, but as a Schedule I substance, the harvest would have to be destroyed completely by law enforcement.

That left no option for remediation. If a product sample tested high, the farmer simply lost their entire crop. Which made

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sampling agents for THC content. However, instead of being required to submit their agent-selected samples within 15 days of harvest, they now have 30 days prior to harvest.

“CDA has worked closely with the USDA to draft a

according to Harvey Craig with Boot Ranch Farms in the San Luis Valley.

“The struggle of the hemp farmer is to grow high producers while ensuring requirements are in place in quality hemp with really, really good terpenes and keep accordance with federal standards,” said Agriculture that THC level at a low Commissioner Kate PHOTO COURTESY OF BOOT RANCH FARMS Greenberg. “Throughpoint throughout,” Craig says, adding that THC levout this process, we’ve els (particularly at outdoor consulted regularly with stakeholders in the hemp easily depending on soil industry, including produccontent and environmental ers, researchers, policy conditions. Having the experts and the public.”

DEA take a random samGov. ple prior to harvest can hit Polis hopes that, like either a high or low point Colorado’s other cannabis-related regulatory Colorado’s state policies, this progressive State Hemp Plan will and businesses openly become a model and a criticized the strict .3% blueprint for the rest of limit of the USDA’s Interim Rule. It put hemp farmers on the nation. Even cultural and cannabis icons like Willie a THC tight-rope without any kind of safety-net should Nelson are calling this a step in the right direction for they slip.

Colorado’s hemp farmers.

Which is why the state’s new Hemp Plan aims to “Colorado should be proud of leading the charge for the hemp industry. There are many ways that this crop “A producer may remediate by removing and

hemp farmers, who have been living in uncertainty after the USDA’s Interim Rule was released in October 2019.

“A producer may also remediate by shredding the entire plant into a biomass-like material and request re-testing by an authorized sampler of the shredded biomass material for compliance.”

Producers would be responsible for all of the costs associated with remediation and further testing. But if their product tests high, at least it doesn’t completely nullify their bottom line.

The approved plan still requires hemp products to be

leaf material and seeds,” the State Hemp Plan explains.

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in their everyday lives,” Nelson said in a statement.

“From textiles and feed to fuel and plastics, hemp is the answer.”

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