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APRIL 21, 2016 - APRIL 28, 2016 EDITORIAL
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The politics of legal weed in Massachusetts have become unbearably stupid over the last week. Almost like the stereotypical stoner in a heated debate, they’ve meandered in and out of consciousness, quoting half-truths and giggling in between, but never really answering the question or making a valid point. Thankfully, the New England Cannabis Convention (NECANN) is this weekend, and Gov. Baker and Mayor Walsh have been invited to attend as guests in hopes they might walk away with a newfound respect and understanding for harm reduction drug policies and the future of the billion dollar legal cannabis industry. But don’t hold your breath. In the meantime, this week’s masters of font have whipped together another round of awardwinning arts and entertainment content, including Jake Mulligan’s interview with the director behind Green Room, Jeremy Saulnier; a deeper look into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist by Chris Ehlers; and a bona fide indie star on the rise, the duo SALES, by Nina Corcoran. Of course, Chris Faraone also steps into the fray with a look at the new book Boy With A Knife and youth incarceration. All of this amazing content and more is wrapped around the official program guide and speaker schedule for the aforementioned NECANN expo that we neatly stuck in the middle, so when you’re done learning about the new things, we hope to see you this weekend and help you learn more about the next things.
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Dear Gov. Charlie Baker, Mayor Marty Walsh, and House Speaker Robert DeLeo: It will come as no surprise to you or your staff members that the publishers of DigBoston are also behind the New England Cannabis Convention (NECANN), held this coming weekend at the Hynes Convention Center. This alternative newspaper has held politicians accountable for their actions and remarks on marijuana more than any other outlet in town, and for years we have encouraged officials and business folk alike to study up on the industry. You have failed to heed our warnings. Learn a thing or two about cannabis, we have suggested, or run the risk of looking like significant dumbasses later on. Though the mayor’s behavior routinely reveals that he is blinded by a crude stubbornness on this issue, this past week all three of you exalted leaders stumbled face-first in the stupid pile with your Campaign for a Safe and Healthy Massachusetts. As such, we thought to offer you free admission to NECANN, along with a chance to make friends in and amends with the growing cannabis community. At the very least, this could be a substantial opportunity for you to conduct up-close opposition research. Because if you really plan on hobbling the 4
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Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol and its ballot initiative to legalize green once and for all, you’ll want to aim beyond the relatively tiny circle of stereotypical stoners. Between the vendors, speakers, volunteers, and organizers there will be a healthy mix of students, doctors, lawyers, activists, and scientists. Since your hope is to convince a majority of residents that legal weed will hurt more than it will help them, it’s in your greatest interest to deceive across the entire gamut of voters, from a kaleidoscopic variety of patients to casual users from all walks of life to medical professionals and caregivers. We see your coalition is comprised of addiction specialists and law enforcement officials, and you can bet that there will be plenty of attendees from both of those professions as well, albeit ones who are enlightened and who actually acknowledge the prevailing research. We also hear you’re raising money for your antilegalization efforts. I doubt that many of them are willing to cut you a check for such nonsense, but there will definitely be an army of investors and entrepreneurs on hand. Since you’re all impressed by power brokers with deep pockets, maybe you will listen to what the millionaires walking the floor at NECANN have to say. They’ll tell you that you’re fighting a ridiculous battle and that you might as well just burn all the donations your hapless prohibitionist campaign raises.
Finally, you shouldn’t come merely to get trolled. You should come to learn from the dozens of presenters and vendors who represent everything from grow equipment manufacturers to solar power providers to smart farming companies to marijuana testing facilities. It’s an impressive group, and unlike politicians who purport to know what’s best for everyone despite not knowing a damn thing, they’re hardly a judgmental bunch. Sincerely, DIG STAFF P.S. While you and other pols are trying to turn back the clock on progress, people who already work in the pot economy are moving full speed ahead in tackling critical issues in their industry. After NECANN, you should dispatch aides from all your legislative staffs to attend Shades of Green, a free event on Monday, April 25, at the UU Urban Ministry in Roxbury. According to hosts from the group Supernova, the “evening was created in response to the clear need for involvement of communities of color in the advocacy efforts regarding cannabis and how to participate in the cannabis market being created in Massachusetts.”
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After four years of blistering columns, a Free Radical change BY EMILY HOPKINS @GENDERPIZZA
About a year and a half ago I graced the cover of DigBoston for its 5 Drink Minimum issue. My outing included the Shanghai Club, which no one probably remembers because it closed down a few weeks after I gave it my blistering review. And while it wasn’t a huge titan that I was able to fell with my written word, the place was pretty culturally appropriative, so I still like to think of that 5 Drink as one of the times my writing made a difference. Jokes aside, most of you reading this have likely followed this column from its accidental birth nearly four years ago. My dear friend and former Dig editor JPat Brown puts it thusly: With their asymmetric haircut and ratty Cat Flag T-shirt, Emily had the appearance of somebody with Strong Opinions About Things, so I asked them if they’d be interested in sharing those with the reading public. And oh yeah, I need to get this to design in the next hour, so please share those opinions as quickly as possible. They farted out something about gender, I came up with Free Radical as a placeholder title, and the rest is herstory. Herstory, indeed, includes calling out state representatives, standing up to Olympic bullies, spreading the gospel of cyclist rights, questioning “end of homelessness” exaggerations, and many more musings on oppression of all kinds. As I prepare to hand over the reins of this column, I’m glad to know that it resonated with at least some of you. I know this because you’ve told me, and all I can say is, thank you for making it matter, even a little bit. I’ll soon be setting off for an internship at the Marshall Project, the now Pulitzer Prize-winning news organization covering the nation’s criminal justice system. Its mission—“to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system”—has fostered a necessary conversation about a troubling industry. Pushing the conversation has always been what I wanted this column to do, so I hope that I can carry that with me. I’ll end on this thought: This city needs more daring journalism. I’m glad this column has allowed me to shine a light, however small, on the ills that plague the city. But we need more voices like mine, and more willingness to take risks. (A shout-out to my colleagues at BINJ for actually taking the plunge.) If we are going to salvage any bit of this city for those who aren’t in tech, development, or big pharma, then we need a chorus. So here’s to the future of Free Radical, and the many other voices I hope sing through it.
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In response to our recent column, Pittsfield police say they will not prevent future loss of evidence, while Berkshire DA calls his office’s failure to review evidence before a court date fair and ethical Two weeks ago, we revealed that the Pittsfield Police Department lost a number of booking videos in a hard drive crash last summer. Since then, Pittsfield Police Chief Michael Wynn and Berkshire District Attorney David Capeless have both publicly commented on the story, but they have not explained many basic details about the crash, and what they have said isn’t very reassuring. The day after our story was published, Chief Wynn issued a press release providing new insights about the timeline of the hard drive crash. According to Wynn, the hard drive’s issues were first reported internally on June 22, which pushes back the beginning of the hard drive problems by nine days from the earliest date we previously reported. Wynn also said that the police didn’t inform the DA’s office until July 13, which means the police waited a full three weeks before informing prosecutors about the potential evidentiary issue. Last December, after we confirmed that the hard drive crash occurred, we sent the DA’s office a records request for notifications made to defense attorneys about the lost evidence. The DA’s office responded to our request, but did not turn over any notifications or withhold any of them under an exemption, as required by law, which led us to conclude that no notifications were made. We tried multiple times to clarify this point with Fred Lantz, the spokesman for the DA’s office, but he refused to answer any of our questions. Lantz was not even willing to say if the DA’s office was aware of the crash. But after our piece was published, DA Capeless quickly pushed back against our reporting. He told iBerkshires.com that Lantz had answered our questions, making it appear as if we had fabricated our story. But Capeless knew Lantz refused to answer our questions because Lantz told him as much in an email that we published two weeks ago. We called on Capeless to retract this false claim, but he refused. Luckily, unlike the Pittsfield police, we maintain our recordings. We are releasing them along with screenshots of our unanswered emails to show Capeless’ lack of integrity. Capeless also disputed our conclusion that his office hadn’t notified defense attorneys. “On any case in which we thought there was relevant evidence that might be available on a video, or a defense attorney requested a copy of the video, we were told in which cases they weren’t available and defense counsel was informed of that,” he told New England Public Radio. But Capeless has only publicly identified a single case in which a defense attorney was notified. He still has not provided copies of the notifications to us even after we directly told him that they should have been provided months ago in response to our public records request. It’s still unclear who else, if anyone, was notified. The only thing Capeless would say to us about the hard drive crash was: “My Office has acted fairly and ethically in handling a situation not of our making. The loss of video evidence has been the subject of a motion filed by a defendant in only one case.” But the case Capeless was referring to actually proves the opposite. CHECK DIGBOSTON.COM FOR THE FULL UPDATE
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A controversial new book opens wounds over a 23-year-old murder and in the process reveals hideous truths about youth incarceration in America BY CHRIS FARAONE @FARA1
And so it was, in a country ruled by Lady Justice Red, that sixteen-year-old Massachusetts high school sophomore Karter Kane Reed was charged with first-degree murder and ultimately sentenced to life in an adult prison. According to the Boston Herald, on April 12, 1993, Karter “stormed” into a high school classroom and stabbed an unarmed boy named Jason Robinson, also sixteen years old. The reasons why evolved for Karter as he understood more about himself, but the facts were distilled by many news sources into this: Karter Reed, along with two friends, arrived at a local high school to finish an earlier fight, and their actions set off a firestorm in the quiet town of Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Something had, as Karter himself later professed, gone “horribly wrong” in his life. -From Boy With A Knife: A Story of Murder, Remorse, and a Prisoner’s Fight for Justice. By Jean Trounstine (IG Publishing).
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The nightmare of mass youth incarceration is no longer a topic that will get you dismissed from the dinner table. Twenty years ago, when prison reform advocate and author Jean Trounstine started teaching inmates and examining their lives in the process, virtually everything that happened behind bars stayed there. But thanks to an army of compassionate activists and a complementary cocktail of coalescing cultural, social, and economic factors, there is an increasing awareness and concern about a range of criminal justice issues. A professor of humanities at Middlesex Community College in Lowell, Trounstine has always worked and researched far ahead of trends. Her inspirational and influential 2001 book, Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama In A Women’s Prison, was the new black decades before orange, and in addition to writing about female inmates she has elevated the discussion about the hundreds of thousands of young people who are bulldozed through our so-called corrections gauntlet each year. Writing about all the young people who are held in adult prisons and jails in America, Trounstine outlines broader issues then drills deep into the youth offender system through the lens of Karter Kane Reed, who as a 16-year-old 26 years ago stabbed a fellow teen to death. Convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to life in prison, Reed was incarcerated for 20 years before being released in 2013—in large part because the Supreme Court of the United States ruling that sentencing juveniles to life without parole violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. In 2007, Reed started communicating with Trounstine, and 100-plus letters and several years later, Boy With A Knife emerges with the troubling yet critical story of innumerable former delinquents. The book, just released last week, has already caused a minor uproar. Protesters are expected outside of Trounstine’s signing and reading at Porter Square Books in Somerville this Tuesday, while her project was the topic of a lengthy feature in last Sunday’s New Bedford Standard-Times. The family and friends of the victim, Jason Robinson, are especially angry that the author will be bringing Reed, who is still on parole, along to subsequent events. We asked Trounstine about the controversy, and about her larger mission of making society safer through ethical prison reform. Today, more than twenty years later, we have learned that it is wrong to treat kids as if they were little adults, no matter what crime they may have committed. Yet many of the same policies that impacted Karter Reed back in the 1990s continue to affect incarcerated youth today. On average, approximately 250,000 youths are currently processed in adult courts each year, a large number for drugs, burglary, theft, and property crimes, as well as for violent acts. While the age of adulthood in all states but New York and North Carolina (as of 2015) is eighteen, juveniles as young as twelve in Colorado can be tried as adults for capital crimes. Of the 250,000 facing adult imprisonment, the Sentencing Project reported in 2013 that 10,000 had been convicted of crimes that occurred before they turned eighteen, and subsequently resulted in life sentences behind bars. -From Boy With A Knife Chris Faraone: How do you introduce yourself these days? Writer? Activist? Trounstine: Professor, activist, and author. In that order? I would go author, activist, and professor. You are ever-present on some of these [criminal justice] issues. Do you feel like the topics you spend
your whole life paying attention to are ones that most other people tend to ignore completely? When I first started teaching in prison I was very isolated. Before I wrote Shakespeare Behind Bars—that was published in 2001 but I started it in 1990—nobody was talking about this stuff. It was my introduction to incarceration by working in prison. I was naive, I didn’t know anything, but that’s what got me interested in what’s going on. That was a happy story about women succeeding in doing a play; it was a powerful story, but it was a niche book. Nobody had really been writing about women at the time, and gradually through the years the book lasted. The paperback is still in print. But also [9/11] happened, and nobody was really interested in prison in that way because of “terrorism.” What was the connection between that event and prison reform? As the world began to be more and more afraid of violence and terrorism, my interests were not what the regular public were interested in. People wanted to know why I was writing about prison. Now we’ve had this sea change, and because of this financial interest—not because of moral interest—there’s much more talk about these issues nationally. In [the Democratic debate between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in Brooklyn], even they were fighting over who has the best criminal justice policy. In a way there’s a fashionableness to this. It’s good for those of us who are doing activism, and there’s a concern that it will also fade out and people will just jump into the next thing they’re concerned about. There are so many stories about people behind bars that could be books in their own right. What are some of the cases you came across early in your work with prisoners that made you realize that certain examples are worth communicating to a larger audience? The stories of the women I met behind bars really stuck with me. They weren’t what they were portrayed as in the media. Particularly one woman who I wrote a lot about, her nickname was Dolly. She was put in prison for second degree murder; she didn’t pull the trigger, she didn’t do anything. She was the person who supposedly encouraged the crime, though there was no proof. Her boyfriend got in a fight and killed somebody. Even before that, I lived in California and there was a play I saw called ‘The Cage,’ and it was with men who were formerly imprisoned at San Quentin. They toured and told the stories of talented human beings who lived behind bars who no one knew about. These lives weren’t wasted, but people had squandered certain opportunities or never had opportunities to begin with. It’s always very interesting and disturbing at the same time. How do you feel the way that women in prison are portrayed in media and society has changed or evolved over the years? There’s a much stronger presence of women who are getting out of prison and becoming activists. Andrea James in Massachusetts did a conference and brought women who are doing amazing work to change the prison system—people who had their sons incarcerated, or who themselves were incarcerated. Justice Is Healing is her organization. What’s changed nationally, for men too, is the movement of people who say people who have been part of the problem should be part of the solution. At what juncture does a story like the one about Karter become something bigger, like a book? Karter reached out to me—I wouldn’t have known anything about him. I get some letters, but his was just phenomenal to me—I didn’t know what to make of it. I had a sense when I received this letter that something important was going to happen if I responded. Consciously I only intended to write back offering to give him the information he needed, but
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the correspondence just developed, and through that I learned things about the prison system and parole and about men in prison vs women in prison. Do you feel that when these issues are generally addressed, that there’s not enough of a human face attached to them? Absolutely. I was very stereotypical of my image of men behind bars before I met Karter. I always understood he had murdered someone, which is horrible, but the challenge for me was to see the crime and how horrible it was for the families and the community and to also see the person. There’s no script for reporting a book like this. What process did you end up establishing, if any? I researched by talking to Karter’s family. I had our letters, I had the trial transcripts. I went to the library in New Bedford and found out everything I could about the crime. I spoke with people who lived in the town. I made a choice to not talk to the [victim’s] family because I thought it would be too painful for them; I thought it was a good idea not to alert them, since it was such a wound. Was the backlash to be expected? I guess so, but not to this extent. I think it’s hurt and rage. I have no problem if somebody wants to have a civil dialogue with me about this—I think one of the reasons to have a book like this is to have a conversation. I have three goals—to show what the Supreme Court says, which is that a child who commits a crime is capable of change; to make clear that the best way to treat kids is not through the adult prison system, to help kids and society and keep us safe; the third is to add to the conversation and to be a part of this and contribute. How does this all tie into everything that’s happening right now? Do you have any specific thoughts on the Massachusetts prison system that you’d like to share? In the book you note that, “In 2014, Massachusetts passed harsher juvenile sentencing laws for firstdegree lifers, setting parole eligibility between 20 and 30 years … Under this law, a 14-year-old convicted of murder could get put away for three decades before a parole eligibility hearing.” I’ll tell you all about parole. We talk about wanting to have people out of prison, but we’ve gotten stingier about parole—particularly to people who have committed life crimes. Parole makes us safer. Parole, with good supervision—and I’ve written about this a lot—is a good thing, not a bad thing. Keeping people behind bars for longer and longer periods of time does not help. If we’re really serious about decarceration, we need to stop just talking about people who have committed nonviolent crimes. Because truthfully, the people who are in our prisons—more than we talk about—have committed violent crimes. We have to stop giving them longer and longer sentences, we have to help them get out, we have to have better re-entry programs.
Trounstine will read from Boy With A Knife at Porter Square Books on Tuesday, 4.19; at Middlesex Community College on Monday, 4.25; and at Harvard Law School on Tuesday, 5.10.
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12:00-1:00pm Cannabis as Medicine: Best Uses for Patients Opening: Dr. Gregory Witman, Canna Care Docs Moderator: Christine Reed – Wellness Education Entrepreneur Panel: Steven Shehales - Ardent Cannabis, Beth Dost - Ardent Cannabis Dr. Gregory Smith - medical cannabis author, Dr. Uma - Uplifting Health & Wellness 1:30-2:30pm Endocannabinoid System Self-Titration: Dosing Moderator: Jamie Joplin - Honey Droplets Workshops Panel: Michael Kahn - MCR Labs, Scott Galbiati - Culinary Solvent Michael Bourque - CannaKorp, Charles Walker- NIC, Kathryn Rifkin - MassCann/ NORML 3:00pm-4:00pm N.E. Support Networks Opening: Charles Nesson-Harvard Law Professor Moderator: Donna HackettActivist Panel: Catherine Lewis-Medical Marijuana Caregivers of Maine, Jenna McDonaldCanna Care Docs Nichole Snow - MPAA, Jill Osborn-Parents for Pot, Sean Judge-New England Veterans Alliance, Bill Flynn-MassCann/ NORML 4:30pm-5:30pm Enacting Change in New England Opening: Rob Kampia- Marijuana Policy Project Moderator: Mike Cann-Young Jurks Panel: Charles Nesson-Harvard Professor, Jared Moffat-Regulate Rhode Island Paul McCarrier-Regulate Maine, Michael Maloney- Councilor Cannabis Will Luzier- Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol in Ma, Andy Gaus MassCann/NORML
Saturday April 23, 2016 Cannabiz & Careers ( B.I.C. Ticket Required)
11:30-1pm Ganjapreneurs/Canna Business Forecast Opening: Nic Easley - 3C Moderator: Scott Bettano- Social High Panel: Susan Chicovsky - Green Mountain Harvest, Greg Gamet – CannaScore, Nicholas Kovacevich – Kush Bottles, Greg James – CannaKorp, Mary McEvory- High Times 1:15-2:00pm Preparing for a career or business in Cannabis Presentation by: Scott Giannotii Cannabis & hemp Association 2:15-3:00pm Navigating as Women in the Cannabis Space Moderator: Hannah Jane-Cannadynamics
Panel: Beth Waterfall - Women Grow, Julia Germaine - Manna Wellness, Marta Downing-Canna Care Docs; Kayla Cook - Leafly, Lynne Williams- Regulate Maine 3:15-4:15pm Security in the Cannabis Industry Presentation by: Tony Gallo - Sapphire Risk Advisory Group 4:30-5:30pm Starting your CannaBusiness Moderator: Jeremiah MacKinnon Cannabis Society of MA Panel: Holly Alberti - Healthy Headies, Steve Flaks - Biotracbiotrack THC, Charles Oster - Leafly, Krystal Lopez Team Feel Good Advocates
Saturday April 23, 2016 Live Demos by New England Grass Roots Institute ( B.I.C. Ticket Required)
11:30am to 12:00pm | Super Cropping & FIM’ing for greater plant production Learn the basics from the best and get the best out of your grow. See a live demonstration of techniques focusing on getting the best production from your plant by creating multiple bud sites and top colas. 12:30 to 1:00pm | Cannabis Tincture Discussion & Demonstration At one time, Cannabis Tinctures were widely used as a medicine. Tincture is an extraction of active cannabinoids from plant material. We’ll discuss and demonstrate making tincture medicines. 1:30pm to 2:00pm | Building an Organic Super Soil for your garden Let’s build an organic super soil! Creating your own soils makes a significant impact on the overall well-being of your garden and every single plant it grows. There is an entire universe living in your organic soils; let’s see what’s in there and why. 2:30pm to 3:00pm | Full Extract Cannabis Oil/ FECO/RSO Full Extract Cannabis Oil/FECO (commonly called RSO/Rick Simpson Oil): A discussion on FECO, What type of extraction is it, how is it made, & medical applications. 3:30pm to 4:00pm | Cloning techniques for preserving genetics Want an exact genetic copy of your favorite plant? Mastering cloning techniques is easy and cloning your plants is the perfect way to preserve your cannabis genetics once you find the perfect medicine. 4:30pm to 5:00pm | Salves, Fire Ciders & the Art of Holistic Healing Learn to make non psychoactive salves for muscle pain, psoriasis, swelling & immunity building/flu busting Fire Ciders. Plus discussion on the art of holistic healing utilizing the healing benefits of herbs.
HEMP TRACK SATURDAY APRIL 24
1:15-1:45pm - State of the Industry 2:00 – 2:45pm | Food and drink developments Presented by: Brian Gillis, CannaDynamics 3:00- 4pm | The many practical uses of hemp Presented by: Oleg MaryAces, MagicWithin: GreenBuilt, LLC 4:15 – 5pm | Best career opportunities Presented by: Jon Napoli The Hempest
Sunday April 24, 2016 MAIN STAGE MMJ as Medicine & Legal Advocacy (Open to all Attendees)
12:00pm-1:00pmCannabis as Medicine: Best Uses for Patients Opening: Dr. Gregory Smith - Medical Cannabis Author Moderator: Dr. Jordan Tishler Panel: Dr. Uma - Uplifting Health & Wellness, Brian Gillis - CannaDynamics, Dr. Gregory Smith 1:30-2:30pm Pesticides & Cannabis Testing Moderator: Joshua Parker Panel: Peter Armando- Griffin Greenhouse, Scott Churchill MCR Labs, John Chandler - Urban-Gro Chris Hudalla - ProVerde Labs, Craig hessler- American Chemical Society 3:00-4:00pm Shedding Light on Personal Cultivation Opening: Dan Thayer - Thayer Corporation Moderator: Bernadette Mae Panel: Jay Kelley, Derek Carme, Shelly Peterson - Grow Light Product Solutions, Leif Kentro 4;30-5:30pm Nutrients, Soil & Cultivation Aids Moderator: George Campbell Adam Sutton - Aurora Innovations, Nick Falco, Seth Whitney, Shara Ross
Sunday April 24, 2016 Cannabiz & Careers (B.I.C. Ticket Required)
11:30-1pm Ganjapreneur/ Canna Business ForecastKey Note: Robert Carp- Author, Cannabis Attorney Moderator: Michael Latulippe- cannabis society of MA Panel: Randall Huft - Innovation agency, Paul Campbell - Leafly, Greg Welch Biotrack THC Danielle Schumacher THC staffing, Holly Alberti - healthy headies 1:15-2:00pm Navigating as Women Moderator: Christine Reed Panel: Andrea Lantz - Plymouth County Growers, Melissa Bouchard - Thomas C Slater Center Erica Haywood - Erica Haywood – Organic Edibles, Jody Lehrer - M.P.A., NIC Instructor, Austin Davis- Students for Sensible Drug Policy
2:15-3:00pm Preparing for a career in Cannabis Moderator: Lou Pino - Pino Consulting Group Panel: Shaleen Title - THC staffing, Chris Foye, Cara Crabb Burnham - NIC, Scott Galbiati - Cannabis & Hemp Assoc. 3:15-4:15pm Security in the Cannabis Industry: A panel discussion with industry professionals Moderator: Mike Whittaker Panel: Douglas White - Smoke Cloak DNA, Larry McIntosh Smoke Cloak DNA, Tony Gallo - Sapphire Risk Advisory Group, Keith McCuen - Rolland Safe & Lock 4:15-5:00pm Starting your CannaBusiness Opening: Susan Chicovsky - Green Mountain Harvest Moderator: Mike Clinton - Twisted Dreams Radio Panel: Shanel Lindsay - Ardent Cannabis, Greg James - Cannakorp Charles Oster - Leafly, Greg Gamet - CannaScore
Sunday April 24, 2016 Live Demos by NorthEast institute of Cannabis 11:30 -12pm | Live Demo: Trimming: Techniques and Tips for the TradeTips for dry trim, wet trim and what the mechanical options are. The demonstration will be accompanied by an instructional video. 12:30 -1pm | Live Demo: Super Soil and Mixes for Optimum Yield and Minimum Risk Materials for this demo generously provided by Aurora Innovations. 2:30-3pm | Your Business and how it fits into the landscape of the cannabis industry Presented by: Bill Downing 1:30-2pm | Canna-Branding: Cultivating positive relationships with the media Presented by: Mike Hsu and Jeff Lawrence 2:30-3pm | What is NIC, and why it’s time to prepare for your new career Presented by: Cara Crabb-Burnham and Joe LaChanc
HEMP TRACK SUNDAY APRIL 24
1:15 – 1:45pm John Dvorak, HEMP CURRICULUM AND MUSEUM 2:00 – 2:45pm | Food and drink developments Presented by: Brian Gillis, CannaDynamics 3:00- 4pm | The many practical uses of hemp Presented by: Oleg MaryAces, MagicWithin: GreenBuilt, LLC 4:15 – 5pm | Best career opportunities Presented by: Jon Napoli The Hempest
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Russell Chudnofsky’s Medicine Chest @ Atwood’s Tavern
Rock & Roll Rumble Finals @ ONCE Ballroom
New England Cannabis Convention @ Hynes Convention Center
New England Cannabis Convention @ Hynes Convention Center
Phillippe Apeloig @ Le Laboratoire Cambridge
Figure Drawing @ Artisan’s Asylum
Russell Chudnofsky is probably not a name that you recognize, unless you’re a musician or lover of music. He’s played with a who’s who list of musicians and toured all around the world with them and opening for them with his band, Medicine Chest. In his latest incarnation of that band, and as part of series of local shows he’s doing with a long list of local musicians, he’ll be joined onstage by Dinty Child, Jenee Halstead, and Scott Janovitz. Come out and support a great lineup at a great venue for great music. It’s a win-win-win.
It all comes down to the final night. The bands have gone through the usual donnybrook of preliminary nights, and now it’s just the three bands still standing and one hell of a guest encore from none other than Scissorfight! The bearded brood are older and wiser but no less the trashy and dinfilled men of rock that put lumber-core on the map. Worshipper, Weakened Friend, and usLights will be going for glory leading up to the final bout of musical mayhem so show up early and drink heavily, throwing your voice and vote behind the eventual 2016 Rumble Winner.
NECANN is the largest convention in New England dedicated solely to the cannabis industry. Now with over 100 vendors and four tracks of speaker panels each day, there’s truly something for everyone interested in the fastest growing industry in the country. Saturday is day one of the two-day convention and includes an open track of speakers and panels for the basic entry price plus three tracks of business, investment, and career focused topics with the BIC-level entry pass. Learn about marijuana as medicine as well as advocacy, or upgrade to see live demos and learn from leaders in the cannabusiness. Tickets on sale online and at the door.
Day two of NECANN promises to be just as exciting and jam-packed with four new tracks of speakers and panels all day. Hundreds of vendors will be available as well, selling everything from education and growing supplies to industry products and supplies for medical grows and beyond. Home-grow panels and experts will be the focus on Sunday, but the business, investment, and career tracks will provide additional knowledge and expertise that you don’t want to miss. While the focus is currently on education and medicinal use, with Massachusetts preparing to vote on full legalization this November you’ll want to be one step ahead of the changes, and this is the place to be if you want to learn how.
If you’re like us, you love graphic design. In 2006, Dig Boston actually won the overall Best Design Award for a Newspaper in New England, so it’s not just lip service. Add to that over two dozen design awards from all over the country, and it’s clear to see why this little rag is pumped to help promote this incredible French graphic designer, Philippe Apeloig, in this unique discussion titled The Substance of Letters. His use of experimental typography in major marketing campaigns as well as cultural client posters makes this a visual tornado for the serif and sans aficionado. Space is limited, and you must RSVP at programs@ lelabcambridge.com.
Who among us hasn’t fancied a high-minded career in fine art? From the first scribble on a chalkboard to the profanity-laced doodles on the back of a school notebook, no matter how lacking in artistic skill, we all draw. Figure Drawing Tuesdays at Artisan’s Asylum offers everyone the chance to elevate your skill by sketching under their tutelage and with live nude models. Wait, what? That’s right, this isn’t paint night with the ladies down at the wine bar. This is a full on artistic experience with proper guidance like the masters have done for centuries. Classes are limited and walk-ins are welcome, but it’s highly recommended that you register in advance and read the FAQ for this class.
Atwood’s Tavern. 877 Cambridge St., Cambridge. 10pm/21+/$7. atwoodstavern.com
ONCE Ballroom. 156 Highland Ave., Somerville. 8pm/18+/$15. oncesomerville.com
Hynes Convention Center. 900 Boylston St., Boston. 11am-6pm/18+/$15+. necann.com
Hynes Convention Center. 900 Boylston St., Boston. 11am-6pm/18+/$15+. necann.com
Le Laboratoire. 650 E. Kendall St., Cambridge. 6:30pm/all ages/FREE. lelabcambridge.com
Artisan’s Asylum. 10 Tyler St. Somerville. 6:30pm/18+/$21.39. artisansasylum.com
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How Julianna Barwick creates a musical feast all by herself BY NINA CORCORAN @NINA_CORCORAN
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The DIY duo that could Given its name, SALES probably isn’t what you’d expect. For one, the duo makes smart, tender indie rock that ropes you in with its disposition, not flashy words. Then there’s the fact that it hails from Orlando, Florida—a place far different from the stock-invested streets of New York City or Chicago. Then, of course, there are the musicians themselves: 25-year-old singer-guitarist Lauren Morgan and 26-year-old guitarist Jordan Shih. The two met in their high school Latin Class. Shih sat behind Morgan. As the way things go, they soon realized their common interests and put carpe diem into practice. Come 2013, they had their first real single: “Renee.” Over the three years that SALES has been around, the band has only released one EP—2014’s SALES—and nine singles, an unintentional strategy that holds audiences’ attention without overwhelming. Usually that guarantees a band obscurity in this day and age, but SALES’s sound is too good to get lost in the puddle. Without a label, promoter, or a middleman of any sort, the duo has accumulated pools of fans across the world, garnering the type of cult following that sees dozens of fans purchase one of its singles the moment it appears on its Bandcamp. “Our goal has always been to maintain our independence, and operate as our own label,” explains Morgan. “We want to see this project grow organically, and be sustainable for us. This mentality has its challenges. Bands blow up overnight with a label, but that’s not what we are looking for. We are in this for the long game.” That DIY mentality carries into its iconic artwork. Two of the band’s first fans, artist Alan Questell and designer Guillermo Cassanova, saw SALES releasing singles on plain color blocks and decided to reach out. Immediately, they redesigned the artwork, coming up with collage absurdities glued to the center of each square. “They let us know real quick that if we were going to put out music, we oughta do it correctly,” says Morgan. That they did. It’s the string connecting all of the two’s releases, displaying a clean sense of cohesiveness and style that’s hard to imagine the band without. SALES’s music falls in a weird venn diagram where the softer side of the xx, the slow pop of Lykke Li, and the collage freedom of Katie Dey meet. The vocals on “Jamz” were improvised and later tracked via iPhone headphones. The crickets in “Renee” were a lucky mistake from leaving the window open while recording. The band pushes experimentation into the mix without ever trying too hard. Fans wanted more, and suddenly, it happened. The long-awaited self-titled full-length was released quietly on April 20th. Now, the duo find themselves ready to lift off—and with fans eagerly pushing their wings, it may be an easy transition into flight. The two quit their day jobs for tour—Shih worked at a call center and Morgan was a cashier—and are all packed up to hit the road. “You have to know what you don’t want to do to know what you do want to do,” says Morgan. “I am proud of us for maintaining our independence, the rights to our masters, staying clear of label debt, and for the most part doing an okay job as team of four people who, starting out, had no idea what they were doing.” >> SALES + TANGERINE + PEOPLE LIKE YOU. WED 4.27. MIDDLE EAST UPSTAIRS, 472 MASS. AVE., CAMBRIDGE. 8PM/ALL AGES/$12. MIDEASTOFFERS.COM
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[O’Brien’s Pub, 3 Harvard Ave., Allston. 7pm/21+/$10. obrienspubboston.com]
[Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. 8pm/18+/$12. mideastoffers.com]
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Solitude does not result in loneliness. Missouri singersongwriter Julianna Barwick may be the master of embracing that. Best of all, she does it by feigning the strength of a chorus by wielding her own voice and layering it until the strength of a church choir appears to stand tall behind her. Her newest full-length, Will, saw her alone in winter, forced to face her own isolation. Instead of falling down, weak, she churned out one of her strongest records to date. Sure, she worked alone on almost all of her prior records, but returning to that process wielded juicier fruits this time around. “With Nepenthe, I was always making music with someone, be it the producer or a string player,” she explains. “The difference between the two records is like going from having great company to complete isolation.” Barwick traveled to studios all around the world for Will, hiding away in Lisbon’s sun or a desolate house in upstate New York. Since she records music on the spot—no demos in hand or lyrics penned down—when she steps into a studio, her soft, choral-based dream pop relies heavily on environment for directional cues. Improvisation leans on pulse and pulse leans on pull. Songs like “Nebula” reaped obvious benefits from her visit to North Carolina’s Moog factory. Others came to life with piano thanks to the Lisbon studio she holed up in. Opening number “St. Apolonia” even takes audio from an underpass near a local train station there of the same name. Environment is everything for Barwick’s music. “I really don’t know any other way at this point,” she says, shrugging off the perception of nerves coming hand in hand. “It’s about settling in and tinkering with things. I definitely did that every day in Iceland. I had my own little hour or two of jamming and coming up with vocal loops. I hash a plan after listening to everything. It’s what comes naturally to me. Pouring over sheet music or agonizing over planning everything is not in my DNA. That feels like homework to me.” Live, she remaps her work so it can deliver similar improvisational feels. With keys, samples, loops, and more onstage, there’s a lot to manage, but she’s beginning to pick things up faster. Like the album’s title, she’s able to dodge literal interpretations by letting human will determine the intent behind tonal shifts. Julianna Barwick explores the low end of sound on Will, and the sonic feast she comes up with supplies enough fodder for listeners to be happily full of beauty and breath until the end of this summer, at minimum. That’s the type of comfort a creative success like hers can reach.
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sometimes. For Blue Ruin, I had storyboards and a visual map for a good part of the film—but then I’d be in an enclosed location, and I’d just take a wide lens and go handheld in a bathroom stall.
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Up close with director Jeremy Saulnier BY JAKE MULLIGAN @_JAKEMULLIGAN Green Room takes place close-up. It’s an enclosed-spaceunder-siege movie (the tradition of Assault on Precinct 13) where a DC-area hardcore punk band (the Ain’t Rights, played by Anton Yelchin and Alia Shawkat, among others) witnesses a murder in a skinhead-operated club (located in the Pacific Northwest) and is immediately made captive by the murderous collective that operates the club (led by Patrick Stewart’s Darcy, a reserved commander in chief with a game plan for sweeping all the evening’s bloodshed right off the books). And director Jeremy Saulnier maintains a close proximity the whole way. He’s close to his actors, who often fill half the frame with their sputtering faces. He’s close to his scene, which is documented with an almost comical level of specificity (from the soundtrack to the stickers on the back of the vans). And he’s close to the violence, which is produced using ultra-gory and meticulously designed prosthetics. He gets intimate with the texture of that too—so much so that you might prefer he pull back. Saulnier visited the city for a screening of his film a few weeks back. Wearing a surplus coat and speaking about his time in the mid-’90s DC hardcore scene—he would commute from a suburban home in Alexandria, Virginia—the director spoke to the crowd about his bona fides. We caught up with him the next day to talk about his affinity for propinquity in all of its forms. Dig Boston: That was an energetic screening. There was a lot of revulsion, and a lot of applause. Jeremy Saulnier: That’s good to hear, because that was certainly the intention—to create, above all else, an actual experience. There’s certainly some political undertones that are addressed [in Green Room], but it’s really about trying to access the involuntary nervous system. There’s a siege sequence in [Saulnier’s last film] Blue Ruin that people really responded to. I said, well, let me capitalize on that and try to ratchet it up tenfold for Green Room. It’s very much an exercise in playing with everything but the brain.
I felt like you don’t have a specific way you want me to react, in terms of politics, or any other subtext. It’s not so much catering to that, but it’s about having trust in that. You can play with expectations. You can trust the audience to fill in the gaps. You can have them do their own calculus. If you’re doing a film that’s set in the hardcore punk scene, you don’t need to teach them a lesson. You don’t need to hear Nazi skinheads talk about their ideology. You might not know or understand everything the characters are talking about. But it’s certain that the characters know what they’re talking about. So you sit back, and absorb, and go along for the ride. In terms of the texture, what compelled me as a viewer was the way you document a real-world subculture within the confines of a genre film (with stickers, with slang, and with musical preferences). You talked last night about how this movie lived in your head for a long time. What exactly was living up there? Was it “the scene”? Having been in the punk rock/hardcore scene, the aesthetic of that—I was trapped into it. The weather of the texture. The blood, the sweat, the leather, the surplus gear, the combat boots, the mud. That kind of shit is my own personal Mad Max. Something I learned a long time ago, as a cinematographer, is that you should waste production value. You should build a world, but then shoot it like you don’t care. You don’t need insert shots of your details. But you should completely flesh out your environment. So we went to great pains to build this concert venue from scratch. It was all soundstage. There is a lot in your backgrounds. But it seems to me that, throughout your three movies, you have a tendency to stay close to your actors. There’s not much space between them and the frame. It’s intuitive. I don’t have any rules, but I certainly have tendencies. I think that might be one of them. With these intense, pressure-cooker genre films, I’m so trapped into the intimacy of being right with someone. Some of it is very practical. I let the environment dictate [composition]
Violence in movies must be really important to you. I was exposed to ’70s and ’80s exploitation movies very early. That really affected me. My cousins made me watch Dawn of the Dead and Friday the 13th Part III. And for the disgusting effects, they would play, then rewind, then play again. They were messing with me, but they didn’t know they were creating a monster. So my influences are Rob Bottin, and Rick Baker, and Tom Savini—the arts-andcrafts element of special effects makeup was huge for me. Movie monsters, too. Godzilla, and watching the Creature Feature every Sunday, was a big deal. Then gaining access to makeup books. Then my interest in scale modeling, recreating things, and photographing dioramas. But the violence itself? I’m a Reagan-era ’80s kid. That’s Schwarzenegger, that’s Commando, that’s badass action flicks. And I love them. There was always a healthy line [for me] between fiction and reality. Goofy people today have sometimes been crossing that line. But I won’t let that infect my movies. In terms of politics, there’s this extreme right-wing [the skinheads] that serves as the antagonist in the film. But any political examination is more about the mainstream political climate in the United States. What I was really examining was power structure. It’s about the food chain. The people at the very top motivating the people at the very bottom. Who suffers? Who’s creating all this carnage? What are the real motivations? What are the stated marching orders, and what’s the actual agenda behind them? These things are all in play here. And if they’re too much a topic of discussion, they become too present, because they’re quite literal. In Blue Ruin, there is an element of eye-for-an-eye-leavesus-all-blind. Yeah. And in Green Room, that’s not the case. As you go through the journey [in Green Room] you realize, retroactively, that the violence being done is in an entirely different context than what you originally were thinking. You think you’re faced with this chaotic wall of mayhem and sadism. You only realize later that it was reluctant, and brutally pragmatic, and that all parties would’ve rather not taken part. There’s human randomness to it. All the way through to the finale. I think “awkward realism” is how I approach it … I’m not anti-violence, or anti-anything. I think there’s a responsible way to use violence in movies. And I would much rather have people discussing why they think [my movies] are too much for them, than have them not perceive onscreen death at all. The high stakes, the life-or-death, the intensity of the experience. That’s what I’m excited by. Conversation has been edited and condensed.
>> GREEN ROOM. RATED R. OPENS AT BOSTON-AREA THEATERS ON FRIDAY 4.22. OPENS AT COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE ON 4. 29.
FILM EVENTS THU 4.21
TWO 60TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENINGS FORBIDDEN PLANET and John Ford’s THE SEARCHERS
[Somerville Theatre. 55 Davis Square, Somerville. 7:30 and 9:30pm/both films not rated/$7-10 per film. Both screenings projected via 35mm.]
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RICHARD PENA PRESENTS XIE JIN’S STAGE SISTERS
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NIGHT ONE OF ‘THROUGH INDIAN EYES: NATIVE AMERICAN CINEMA’ SMOKE SIGNALS
[Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge. 7pm/PG-13/$911. 35mm. brattlefilm.org]
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COOLIDGE AFTER MIDNIGHT PRESENTS THE FINAL GIRLS
[Coolidge Corner Theatre. 290 Harvard St., Brookline. Midnight/PG-13/$11.25. A Q&A with director Todd Strauss Schulson, conducted via Skype, will occur after the screening. coolidge.org]
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THE DOCYARD PRESENTS A 10TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING OF DARKON
[Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge. 7pm/PG13/$9-11. Directors Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A. A performance by composer Jonah Rapino will precede the film. brattlefilm.org]
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ELEMENTS OF CINEMA AND CHUCK HOGAN PRESENT THE POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE
[Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge. 8pm/R/free. 35mm. brattlefilm.org]
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Four empty frames have hung on the walls of the Dutch Room on the second floor of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum since the infamous, still-unsolved heist 26 years ago. They serve as a placeholder until the art is returned, and as a reminder—starting conversations among the museum’s visitors. The empty, opulent gold frames have become iconic themselves. There is now a fifth empty frame on the walls of the museum, this one in the Blue Room on the first floor. It is the frame that belongs to Édouard Manet’s Chez Tortoni, and it has recently been hung in its rightful place all these 26 years later. According to Anthony Amore, security director at the Gardner Museum, the frame was put on display as a way to increase awareness of the missing artwork. “One of the things that we accomplish by putting the frame up is that people get a sense of the size of it,” Amore said. “I think many people don’t understand the different dimensions of the things, and anything we can do to improve that is worthwhile.” Chez Tortoni measures just about 10 by 13 inches. “I have found, incredibly, that very few people in the Boston area and, in fact, in the law enforcement realm, have [any] idea what our images look like,” Amore said. “They’re so unfamiliar with the stolen pieces that it’s stunning to me. And that worries me a great deal.” With the artwork still missing, it is vital that the images of the pieces remain familiar to all of us. As Amore pointed out in his fascinating book, Stealing Rembrandts, most stolen artwork is recovered either immediately or one generation later. It is now “one generation later.” Of the 13 stolen pieces—now collectively valued at somewhere north of $500— the theft of Chez Tortoni remains the biggest mystery of the entire big mystery. While the thieves took the tapes of the security footage with them, there are printouts of the motion sensor activity that give authorities a pretty clear idea of the movement of that evening. Here’s where it gets weirder: The motion sensor records do not show any movement in or near the Blue Room, the location of Chez Tortoni, from the time that the thieves entered the museum to the time that they left. In fact, there are gaps in the motion sensors for two 20-minute periods of time: 20 minutes before the thieves went upstairs to the Dutch Room and began stealing things, and 20 minutes before they left. Of the 81 minutes that the thieves spent inside the museum, about 40 minutes are unaccounted for. The only movement detected in the Blue Room occurred shortly before the thieves entered the building. According to Amore, this movement was consistent with one of the guards making his rounds. That the only movement recorded in the Blue Room belongs to one of the guards has led to a great deal of speculation about his involvement. “We don’t know what we don’t know,” said Amore. “We have nothing to point at to say that that he was involved.” Adding to the mystery of the theft of Chez Tortoni is that the frame was not left on the gallery floor like the other frames were. Instead, it was left on the security director’s chair, which seems like a very personal jab. “Everything about the Chez Tortoni is really mysterious,” said Amore. “If nothing else were stolen the night of the heist, we’d still be talking about one of the biggest art heists in history.”
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I met a man two and a half years ago on Tinder. Our relationship was built on lies from the start. I lied to him about having a child so I could put a wedge between us. I came clean after we slept together a few times—the most mind-blowing sex I’ve ever had—because I was afraid he might want to meet my made-up child. I caught feelings. But Tinder man is married and lives in France. I see him only three times a year. Fastforward to now. He pursues other people. Women throw themselves at him. We were at the mall, and he picked up a girl while I was getting my hair done. He’s not my boyfriend. He hurts me. I am terrified of losing him. Here comes the tricky part: My doctor found a tumor on my lymph nodes. I go in for tests on Friday. I’m ready to pick out my coffin at this point. I contacted my lover’s ex-wife and asked why they divorced, and she said because he cheated all the time. I know what he’s capable of. I don’t want to change him. I love him. I go insane when we don’t talk. He told me he doesn’t respect me any more than he respects his current wife. I’m so scared. Help Me Please Um… you won’t find the help you need wedged between escort ads at the back of a weekly newspaper, HMP, or on a website underneath pop-up ads for vaporizers. You need a therapist, someone who can help you work through legitimate-but-possibly-premature fears for your health (let’s wait for those test results to come back before we pick out your coffin, okay?) and your emotional dependence on a man who isn’t your boyfriend, isn’t your husband, isn’t around much, and has told you he doesn’t respect you. He’s not the kind of guy who’s going to come through for you during a health crisis—that guy couldn’t come through for you during a haircut. Don’t get me wrong: I sleep with men, I understand the sexual appeal of a man who treats you like shit, I’m a huge Peggy Lee fan (youtube.com/watch?v=QBsEH9q63Uk). But you can’t depend on a guy like that at a time like this. If it turns out you’re seriously ill, HMP, you need to lean on family and friends, join a support group, buy one of those vaporizers, and concentrate on getting healthy. And take comfort: If/when your health is restored, there are plenty of shitty, selfish, sadistic guys on the planet who’ll treat you badly, cheat on you flagrantly, and—not coincidentally—get you off spectacularly. I’m sorry you may be ill, HMP, and I’m sorry you’re scared. Best wishes for a speedy physical, emotional, and sexual recovery.
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