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CONTENTS

COVID-19 ROUNDUP

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The top stories we’ve been following this week at TucsonWeekly.com

CURRENTS

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Here’s what you can do if you’ve lost your job or need other financial assistance

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4/20 reviews and news, plus the results of the Cannabis Bowl 2020

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EDITOR’S NOTE

YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THE Weekly has gotten a bit thinner these days as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. While our print edition has lost some weight, our news team is bringing you more stories than ever online at TucsonWeekly.com. In fact, because we don’t have nearly enough room for all the stories that we’re posting each day, we’ve launched a new roundup of many of the key stories we bring you during the week. You’ll find it on Page 4, but visit the website for breaking news and feature stories about how Tucson is contending with the ’rona.

The outbreak has been devastating to our local economy, but there are some sectors that are holding up OK. That includes our friends at medical marijuana dispensaries, who have seen a rush as patients stock up on medicine out of fear of a supply chain breakdown or just a reluctance to shop more than necessary, given our stay-at-home orders. As staff reporter Austin Counts writes this week, business has slowed a bit and dispensaries have made changes to adjust to the outbreak, but with 4/20 on the horizon, most of them are offering deals of some kind or another.

Our 4/20 edition also includes the results of our Cannabis Bowl, a look at how THC Wellness creates its high-potency tinctures and some reviews of various medicinal products.

Casey Anderson, Ad Director/ Associate Publisher, Ext. 22 casey@tucsonlocalmedia.com Sheryl Kocher, Receptionist, Ext. 10 sheryl@tucsonlocalmedia.com

Elsewhere in the issue, staff reporter Kathleen Kunz tells you about the help that’s out there if you’ve lost your job—and warns you that you may have to jump through some hoops to get it; columnist Tom Danehy looks at how Donald Trump is doing as a wartime president; associate editor Jeff Gardner alerts artists of some new grants that are available; production manager David Abbott shares his stay-at-home playlist; and we still have Rob Brezney’s insightful horoscope, Dan Savage’s smutty sex column, all of our cartoonists and our crossword puzzle.

Finally, as I noted before, many of our advertisers are not in a position to support the Weekly as they have in the past, so the hard-working reporters here could use your support. If you value our brand of local journalism, consider visiting TucsonWeekly.com and make a contribution to support our work as we get through this pandemic. Thanks for your consideration and stay well out there.

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COVID-19 • Pima County had 685 of the state’s 3,806 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday, April 14, according to the morning report from the Arizona Department of Health Services. The novel coronavirus had killed 131 people statewide, including 32 in Pima County. In Maricopa County, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases had risen to 2,056. The state is not yet releasing information about how many of those who had the virus have recovered.

• Nationwide, nearly 555,000 people had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, which had killed nearly 22,000 people as of Monday, April 13, according to preliminary statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Because COVID-19 symptoms can take as long as two weeks to appear after exposure to the virus (and some people can remain entirely asymptomatic), health officials say community spread of the disease is worse than the official numbers suggest. They have urged the public to avoid unnecessary trips and gatherings of more than 10 people.

• Many “non-essential” Arizona businesses—bars, salons, barbershops, gyms, movie theaters, swap meets and more—remain closed under Gov. Doug Ducey’s stay-athome order. Parks remain open but playgrounds, sports courts, restrooms, pools and similar amenities have been closed.

Under Ducey’s stay-at-home order, Arizonans are still able to shop for groceries, medical and household needs, and pet supplies. They can also go to work, pick up a take-out meal from a restaurant, travel to take care of a family member, friend or pet, and can still go walking, hiking, biking and golfing, provided that they adhere to social distancing guidelines.

• Ducey issued four more executive orders last week: Visitors from areas with major community spread of COVID-19 must now enter quarantine for two weeks if they come to Arizona; restaurants can sell more of their bulk goods and supplies as groceries; staff at nursing homes and similar facilities will have to wear personal protective equipment and institute symptom checks for anyone entering the building; and hospitals and healthcare

Round Up

workers must start tracking data related to COVID-19 such as available hospital beds, the number of patients visiting emergency rooms with COVID-19 symptoms and the use of ventilators and personal protective equipment. Health care workers continue to express concern that they are desperately short of personal protective equipment such as masks and gloves.

• President Donald Trump said on Monday, April 13, that he was considering reopening the country and lifting stay-at-home orders. Asked by a reporter what authority he had to lift stay-at-home orders issued by governors, Trump replied: “When somebody’s the President of the United States, the authority is total. And that’s the way it’s gotta be. It’s total. And the governors know that.”

• The outbreak has hammered Arizona’s economy, with nearly a quarter-million people applying for unemployment in recent weeks. State budget forecasters told lawmakers last week that the state is facing a budget deficit of $1.1 billion in the next fiscal year, which begins in July. But they cautioned that the uncertainty surrounding the outbreak means they could be wrong by $500 million in either direction.

• UA President Robert C. Robbins warned in a teleconference that a return to normal life could be months away—or longer. “Until there’s a vaccine, we’re never going to be completely risk free,” Robbins said. “That’s probably a year at least before we would have a vaccine.”

Robbins also said that the UA was bracing for the possibility that many out-of-state and international students might not return to campus in the fall because of the outbreak, which could lead to financial calamity for the university.

“The financial impact, we’re modeling it, but as you could imagine our net tuition revenue is derived greatly from out-ofstate and international students,” Robbins said. “So we’re going to have significant shortfalls in the projections of what we’re going to have in tuition revenue.”

• Business owners scrambled to take advantage of loans under the Paycheck

Betty Villegas being sworn into the Pima County Board of Supervisors.

Protection Program, which is offering $349 billion in forgivable loans as part of the $2 trillion COVID-19 relief package passed by Congress in response to the outbreak. Business owners complained that the loan process, run through banks by the Small Business Administration, was too complicated and filled with roadblocks.

• Democrat Betty Villegas was sworn into the Pima County Board of Supervisors to replace Richard Elías, the longtime supervisor who died unexpectedly from a heart attack in late March. She is not seeking the office in November’s election. Last week, three Democrats filed to run for the seat: TUSD School Board member Adelita Grijalva, the daughter of Congressman Raul Grijalva; Sunnyside School District member Consuela Hernandez, whose brother Daniel and sister Alma both serve in the Arizona House of Representatives; and political newcomer Trista Tramposch di Genova-Chang. The winner of the Democratic primary will face Fernando Gonzales, the owner of Jan-Co janitorial services, who ran for the Board of Supervisors previously in 2012 in this central-southside, heavily Democratic district.

• After an appeal from Mayor Romero, eegee’s brought a special delivery of watermelon slushy drinks to Tucson firefighters and police officers, as well as volunteers from the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona. “Our community is working

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so hard to make sure our residents are cared for and I thought a watermelon eegee’s would be a Tucson way to lift the spirits of those on the front lines,” Romero said in a prepared statement. “I was delighted when eegee’s said they would help.”

COVID-19 symptoms typically occur two to 14 days after exposure, and include headache, fever, cough, and shortness of breath, according to the CDC. However, some cases of the virus are entirely asymptomatic.

Practices to avoid infection include social distancing (of at least six feet), washing your hands, avoiding unnecessary trips and not touching your face. COVID-19 can survive on cardboard for up to 24 hours, and on stainless steel and plastic surfaces up to three days.

If you think you have been exposed to COVID-19 and develop a fever, cough or difficulty breathing, speak with a healthcare provider for medical advice. According to the CDC, people who are mildly ill with COVID-19 are able to recover at home. Stay at home and avoid public transportation, but stay in touch with your doctor. If you do leave your home, wear a facemask and clean your hands often. If you develop more severe symptoms (persistent pain or pressure in the chest, confusion, bluish lips) get medical attention immediately. Your local health authorities will give instructions on checking your symptoms and reporting information. ■

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LOGAN BURTCH-BUUS

The Tucson Mall shut down following Gov. Ducey’s stay-at-home order.

HELP WANTED

Here’s what you can do if you’ve lost your job or need other financial assistance Kathleen B. Kunz Kathleen@tucsonlocalmedia.com

AS THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK forces the economy to a grinding halt, more and more people across the country are losing their jobs.

The U.S. Department of Labor is reporting record-highs in new unemployment insurance claims, with 6.6 million claims filed in the week ending March 28.

This marks the highest level of seasonally adjusted initial claims in history.

The Arizona Department of Economic Security reported 88,592 initial claims from Arizona residents in the same week—a staggering jump of nearly 60,000 claims above the previous week.

Both state and federal governments have put measures in place to increase access to unemployment benefits and other financial assistance programs that can keep people afloat during this uncertain time. Here are the main resources to pursue if you’ve lost income as a result of COVID-19.

Expanded Unemployment Benefits The federal government passed the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security) Act on Friday, March 27. The new legislation will expand eligibility for unemployment benefits to those who have historically been denied, such contract workers, gig workers and people who are self-employed.

ous infection, workers who had to leave their jobs to care for a family member who has been infected with COVID-19, and any other scenario that would cause a worker to stay home due to the virus.

According to Deputy Press Secretary Brett Bezio, DES has increased their staff from 13 to more than 150 in the call centers, with additional staff joining this week, in order to effectively process unemployment claims.

Because the DES customer service centers are receiving an unprecedented amount of phone calls right now, Bezio recommends callers to continue trying to connect even if they receive a busy signal. The number is 1 (877) 600-2722.

They can also visit azui.com to apply for unemployment benefits, view frequently asked questions pertaining to employment impacted by COVID-19 and other important information. Resources for other assistance programs can be found at des.az.gov/services/coronavirus.

ECONOMIC IMPACT PAYMENTS As part of the CARES Act, the federal It will also provide beneficiaries with an additional $600 per week in Pandemic government will soon begin distributing Unemployment Compensation on top of the unemployment money already ofJEN SORENSEN fered by the state of Arizona, which varies between $187 and $240 per week. This money will not be considered “income” for those who use Medicaid or CHIP. The benefits can be extended for an additional 13 weeks for those who have exhausted their unemployment benefits.

Arizona is currently accepting applications for CARES Act benefits, but those claims won’t be processed until the federal government distributes the money.

DES said they will inform the public with the newest information through their website and social media accounts.

On March 20, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey issued an executive order aiming to open up unemployment benefits in the state. The order waived the usual one-week waiting period after an employee loses a job before they can apply for unemployment benefits and temporarily suspended the requirement that applicants must be actively searching for work.

The order also expanded who is eligible to receive unemployment benefits to include workers whose employers had to temporarily or permanently close, workers who had to miss work to self-quarantine and did not have any available paid leave, workers who had to leave their jobs due to a risk of exposure to COVID-19 and are at particularly high risk for seri-

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$1,200 checks to every taxpayer in an effort to help the nation weather the financial effects of COVID-19.

According to the IRS, tax filers with adjusted gross income up to $75,000 for individuals and up to $150,000 for married couples filing jointly will receive the full payment.

Filers with income above those amounts will have their stimulus payment reduced by $5 for each $100 above the $75,000 and $150,000 thresholds. Single filers exceeding $99,000 and joint filers exceeding $198,000 with no children are not eligible for the payment.

Eligible taxpayers who filed tax returns for either 2019 or 2018 will automatically receive an economic impact payment of up to $1,200 for individuals or $2,400 for married couples and up to $500 for each qualifying child.

Most people will not have to do anything in order to receive this payment; it will be distributed automatically. Taxpayers who typically do not file returns will have to submit a simple tax return form in order to receive their payment.

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Social Security recipients and railroad retirees who are otherwise not required to file a tax return are also eligible and will not be required to file a return.

The IRS has warned people to be on the lookout for scammers seeking to swindle economic impact payments.

For more information about economic impact payments, go to irs.gov/coronavirus-tax-relief-and-economic-impact-payments.

Know Us Know Your Community

PAID FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE The Families First Coronavirus Response Act requires certain employers to provide employees with paid sick leave or expanded family and medical leave for specific reasons related to the COVID-19 outbreak. These rules will apply through Dec. 31, 2020.

The law applies to certain public employers and private employers with fewer than 500 employees. According to the Department of Labor, most federal employees are covered by Title II of the Family and Medical Leave Act. Employees can qualify for paid leave if: • They are subject to a federal, state, or local quarantine or isolation order related to COVID-19 • They have been advised by a healthcare provider to self-quarantine because of COVID-19 • They are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms and are seeking a medical diagnosis • They are caring for someone who has been infected with COVID-19 • They are caring for a child whose school or place of care is closed, or childcare is unavailable, for reasons related to COVID-19 • They are experiencing any other substantially similar condition specified by the Secretary of Health and Human Services Small businesses with fewer than 50 employees may qualify for exemption from the requirement to provide paid leave due to school closings or childcare unavailability, if the requirement would jeopardize the viability of their business.

The amount of time off varies from two to 12 weeks, and employees will be paid between minimum wage and partial or full pay, depending on the reason. For more information, visit dol.gov/agencies/whd/ pandemic/ffcra-employee-paid-leave.

MORTGAGE ASSISTANCE The Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is encouraging homeowners who are having difficulty paying their mortgages due to COVID-19 to reach out to their mortgage servicers as soon as possible.

Some may be allowed to delay their monthly mortgage payments for a temporary period without incurring late fees, and foreclosures and other legal proceedings will be suspended.

For more information, visit fhfa.gov/ coronavirus.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac each have their own dedicated web pages for homeowners to determine which branch their mortgage is owned by. For Fannie Mae, visit knowyouroptions.com/loanlookup or call 1-800-2FANNIE. For Freddie Mac, visit ww3.freddiemac.com/loanlookup/ or call 1-800-FREDDIE. IMMEDIATE JOB OPENINGS The State of Arizona’s main tool for quickly connecting unemployed people to jobs is through Arizona@Work. Individuals can create and post resumes on the site, search for jobs or career training and employers can recruit employees and offer apprenticeships.

On their website, arizonaatwork.com, there is a page with all immediate job openings available in your area.

Similarity, Pima County has established a central web page for residents to find immediate employment. Their page has a long list of local employers who are currently recruiting for positions, and it has a subscription service that individuals can use to get daily updates about job openings. For the most up-to-date job openings, email businessservices@pima.gov.

You can call the Pima County Dislocated Workers Hotline at (520) 724-5735 to receive help with job leads, receive referrals to community resources and access the Arizona Unemployment Insurance website.

OTHER COMMUNITY RESOURCES The Arizona Department of Economic Security has a long list of helpful community resources for specific needs from food insecurity to finding employment, education to housing, health services to veterans services, and more. Visit des. az.gov/services/community-resources to connect with external programs that may be able to provide assistance. ■

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DANEHY

DONALD TRUMP AS WARTIME PRESIDENT: A SICK JOKE IN OUR SICK NATION

By Tom Danehy, tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com SO…DONALD TRUMP IS A wartime President. I can see him, like James Madison, fleeing the White House just before the British burned it to the ground in the War of 1812. Or, maybe like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, risking his entire political career to help save Britain from falling to the Nazis and then successfully fighting a war against both Germany and Japan. Come on, you just know that Trump would have been just like the Charles Lindbergh character in HBO’s ultra-scary The Plot Against America. Trump would have sucked up to Hitler (“a strong leader”), turned his back on England and the European Jews, and then crowed about how he kept America out of “somebody else’s war.”

My favorite story of a president during wartime involves Abraham Lincoln shortly after the fall of the Confederate capital of Richmond. It was April 4, 1865, so the war was still officially on. The Confederate troops that had been guarding the capital had evacuated the city and Jefferson Davis was in full flight mode. But it was still an incredibly unsafe place to be. Lincoln and his son, Tad (who was celebrating his 12th birthday), went down the James River, got

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off the boat and just walked through the streets of Richmond.

Freed slaves tried to bow down to him, but Lincoln insisted that they stand up and shake his hand. Seriously, can you imagine Donald Trump doing anything like that?

Lincoln was an actual badass, unlike Trump, who’s just an ass. Lincoln fought in a real war (the Black Hawk War in 1839), while Trump was a draft dodger. In the early days of the Civil War, Lincoln grew so impatient with his reluctant-to-fight generals, he said, “If (General George B.) McLellan is not using the Army, I should like to borrow it for a while…” Trump is just a blowhard who would be (and obviously is) terrified of any kind of an actual fight.

I have always been a news junkie, so when Trump started doing those daily crap-a-thons about the pandemic, I watched. I knew immediately that they would be mini-political propaganda rallies, but I sincerely hoped that he could, at least a little bit, rise to the occasion. This wasn’t a petty monetary beef with NATO (a beef he continuously misrepresents or simply doesn’t understand). It wasn’t a mutual pleasuring with some third-rate dictator who can’t get the time of day from

real world leaders. This is a life-or-death situation with Americans dying by the thousands.

After he completely blew the initial response by first joking about the virus, then downplaying it, and always lying about it and himself, I told myself that I would still give him another shot at manning up. This was a beach ball being floated across the plate. All he had to do was say, “Hey, I messed up, but now I see how serious this is and I’m going to do everything I can to fight this.” He would have hit it out of the park.

Instead, he immediately reverted to Little Bitch mode. I knew it all along. I take no responsibility. Blame the Chinese. Blame the Europeans. Blame the Mexicans. But mostly, blame the Democrats. I’m No. 1 on Facebook. (He actually has half as many followers as Barack Obama.)

Being a cockeyed optimist, I spent all of 2017 expecting Trump voters to realize that they had conferred dangerous powers upon a seriously flawed human being. But that didn’t happen. He lied about almost EVERYTHING and they cheered. He copped to committing felonious sexual assault and they cheered. He sided with white supremacists and they cheered loudly.

In 2018, he started destroying the fabric of American government as though he were some drunk bastard trying to play speed Jenga. He lied to and stole from the American people and still two out of five cheered.

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In 2019, they realized that their side had lost the midterm elections because too many people who didn’t look like them had voted, so they set about to deny citizens their right to vote. Anything to keep their Giant Tub of Goo in office.

It has become all too apparent that the average Trump voter is beyond help.

They don’t care about America; they care about “their” America—white, vulgar and intentionally stupid. But I have a logic problem for those Trump voters who possess triple-digit IQs. It’s only for them.

Trying to explain logic to the average Trump voter would like trying to explain the workings of the Large Hadron Collider to a baseball bat.

For the few who might understand, here we go. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, did Wyoming declare war, followed by Louisiana, Ohio and then Vermont? Or did the United States declare war? If we’re at war with the virus, then the entire country is at war. And the country’s leader needs to be leading, not dumping responsibilities (and lots of blame) on state governors who don’t sufficiently kiss his ass.

So what is it, Trump lovers who can actually read this? Is he a “wartime president” or is he a cowardly, self-serving shirker at the time of his country’s greatest need?

History is already guaranteed to declare him the worst president in the history of America. His current actions will certainly doom his petty soul to eternal damnation.■

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CANNABIS FEVER

While it’s not the cannapocalypse, patients are definitely stocking up on their medicine

By Austin Counts austin@tucsonlocalmedia.com AS 4/20 APPROACHES, Tucson dispensaries are altering how they conduct business with the public while medical marijuana patients stockpile flower, edibles and other products during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dispensaries like The Green Halo, in southeastern Tucson, are stretching out their 4/20 deals for seven days to help discourage crowd sizes they would typically see on the international stoner holiday.

They also won’t be giving away a lot of freebies like T-shirts and stickers due to coronavirus concerns, but are making sure they always have enough product on hand, according to Victoria Poulos, senior marketing manager for Halo Infusions and Extractions.

“It will be a scaled-down 4/20 and we won’t be doing a bunch of extravagant things. We won’t be giving out as much swag, but we want the public to know Green Halo will not run out of flower,” Poulos said. “We’re just not encouraging people to come in all on one day. They’ll have a week to receive the discounts”.

Several dispensaries have suspended walk-in service in weeks past favoring online and phone orders, but The Green Halo is still allowing it. However, no more than 10 people are allowed in the building at one time and all employees are required to wear facemasks and gloves while working. Employees even get their temperatures taken at the beginning of their shift, said Poulos.

“Our number one priority is the health and safety of our patients,” Poulos said “We’ve implemented temperature checks of our employees. We’re only allowing 10 people in the building at one time and we’ve rearranged our waiting room to encourage social distancing.”

Trinity Houk, manager of midtown’s Prime Leaf, said the dispensary is also spreading out 4/20 specials over three days to help discourage large crowds.

She’s seen an increase in patients’ spending over the past month since Mayor Regina Romero shut down all public gathering spaces on March 17.

“During the first days, there was definitely some panic-buying. Everybody was buying two and three times more than

they typically would,” Houk said. “I feel like everyone is kind of maxing out their allotments and precautionary buying while thinking about the future.”

While crowds have decreased a little in recent weeks, Houk said people are still increasing the size of their purchases. She believes patients are also stocking up to beat 4/20 crowds.

“Most people on average have been spending $300 to $500 per transaction.

I’ve definitely watched each transaction average increase,” Houk said. “With 4/20 coming up, it seems to be a deterrent in a way because people know there’s going to be large crowds.”

Prime Leaf is also still offering walk-in service—up to 10 people in the building at one time—and recently installed sneezeguards in front of all areas where staff interacts with the public. Employees are also required to wear masks and gloves and the area outside the front door is sectioned off in six-foot intervals for waiting customers, Houk said.

Over at Nature Med in Marana, manager Charles Remy said the dispensary is also limiting the number of patients inside their building and patients are no longer allowed in the dispensary area.

“We have everybody wait outside the building and only bring in five patients at a time and patients at a time and we’re not allowing anyone except staff into our dispensary area,” Remy said. “That way no products are getting contaminated or handled by anybody other than our staff before it goes out the door.”

Nature Med saw a 30 to 40 percent increase in business during the first few days of the shutdown order, Remy said. The unprecedented sales have leveled off for the dispensary in April, Remy said, but he still sees people buying cannabis products in larger amounts than before the shutdown. He believes people are stocking up so they don’t have to make as many trips out to the store.

“I don’t think it’s for a concern that there will be a shortage. It’s more of a concern that people don’t want to be out and about as much,” Remy said. “We’ve seen consistent buying throughout the last three-anda-half to four weeks and we’re up about 20 percent for the month.”

Director of Downtown Dispensary Mohit Asnani said they also saw sales surge

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Shoppers line up outside of Prime Leaf during the weed rush. The dispensary has limited the number of people allowed inside in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

in mid-March as the public began to stay indoors. Since then, sales have returned to normal but the company’s focus has changed, said Asnani.

“We’ve changed our focus from being more sales and revenue-driven to more about what are the opportunities for this disease to spread and how do we eliminate those,” Asnani said. “Now we’re focusing more on online orders, especially pick up and delivery, and getting the right PPE for our people.”

Asnani said he’s has heard some complaints about the dispensary’s new online pickup and delivery system but his employees’ safety comes first, he said.

“Our employees safety is first and foremost. They see over 100 people a day so having them exposed to one potentially COVID-positive patient could be really dangerous because not only could it be

spread to our employees, it could spread to several more patients,” Asnani said.

“There have been a couple of patients that didn’t understand the gravity of this. But the majority of them have been understanding.”

The Downtown Dispensary will continue to push online pickup and delivery sales for the foreseeable future until the pandemic situation is under control, Asnani said.

“I don’t see the threat going away anytime soon, so this is how we’re going to operate for the foreseeable future,” Asnani said. “If there’s a cure or a vaccine has been tested or something miraculous happens, it will change. The problem is we have now reached a reality that all of those are at a much lower probability and how we’re operating today will probably for a long time.”

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PURE DROPS The benefits behind tinctures

By Jeff Gardner Jeff@tucsonlocalmedia.com WITH DAB RIGS, VAPE CATRIDGES and intricate glasswork, the cannabis industry is no stranger to innovation.

But for many consumers, the simpler the better. Arizona business THC Wellness/ CBD Wellness takes this stance in their medicine by extracting and manufacturing their own line of tincture and topical cannabis products.

When THC Wellness formed in 2010, they only sold two tinctures—at 300 and 700 milligram bottles—and a topical ointment. Since then, all the products they’ve created have been based on customer demand, resulting in a 2,600mg tincture, as well as special formula demands reaching up to 5,000-mg and 10,000-mg tinctures.

“It always comes down to what the customer needs,” said Matthew Scott, THC Wellness founder. “For the vast majority

of people, you can find a product between CBD Wellness and THC Wellness that works for you. But every once in a while, we’ll get someone going through a 1,300 mg bottle every other day to manage symptoms and seizures, and that’s when I formulate something higher.”

The tinctures and salves they create serve similar needs in different ways; the salves are for localized, topical treatment and reduce pain for a few hours, whereas the tinctures can be used as a daily regimen that affect the entire body to prevent pain, and may remove the need to use a salve in the first place.

“I believe anybody who’s been educated and is looking for health benefits will take a tincture over an edible,” Scott said.

“When you look at the ingredients for THC and even CBD edibles, they’re filled with sugar and other stuff, which can counteract the health benefits people are looking for, like reducing inflammation— you’ll never go to a hospital and have

your doctor tell you to eat a cookie.”

Though Scott says he does appreciate edible brownies and cookies, he says tinctures are "by far the best method of intake for properly formulated botanicals" because the medicine can be measured accurately and is more pure.

“With the tinctures, you can include all the necessary constituents that are highly important,” Scott said. “A lot of people want to isolate THC or CBD because they think it’s better, but that’s not the case. It’s about having the full profile; there’s certain fatty acids, there’s certain terpenes, there’s all different types of compounds that are in the cannabis plant, and the more you remove during the purification process, the less that product’s going to work the way it’s meant to work.”

Moving forward, THC Wellness is developing liniment sprays and CBN products. Liniment sprays are topical medicines that have alcohol to penetrate deeper for topical use and they are found to transfer cannabinoids quicker than other salves. CBN, also known as cannabinol, is a cannabinoid found to aid pain relief and sleep. However, the compound often comes in a lower concentration than THC or CBD in plants.

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Some products to consider for your medicinal experience EARTH’S EXTRACT VPOD AND PURPLE PUNCH 1000MG CARTRIDGE

of any cartridge we’ve tried. (As longtime cannabis smokers, we find many cartridges may be discreet enough for public use but the medicinal effect tends to be less intense than smoking flower). We’d definitely recommend IO to anyone looking for a new cartridge experience.

CANNABLISS GUMMIES

If we were limited to only three words for this review, they would be: Simple.

Discrete. Powerful. There’s just no better way to describe our general reaction to Earth Extracts’ new Vpods, available at Earth’s Healing.

The battery and smoking device itself is nearly airlight and easy to pocket, with a magnetic catch where the cartridge slides in. The Vpod is button-free, and activates when you breathe in. Aside from its sleek design and light weight, we experienced no heating issues and the device never grew too hot from a long draw.

The one downside reported by the review team: The airflow seems a little restricted through the cartridge, probably from the small diameter of the airway—but it’s not a serious enough issue to raise any alarms.

As for the strain, Purple Punch is known throughout the toking world for its indica-heavy effect and relaxing high. The product of Larry OG and Granddaddy Purp, this sweet leaf is a perfect after-dinner smoke for those looking to kick back, enjoy some TV and forget for a few hours that the world is kind of a nightmare right now.

Expect a very sweet taste and an immediate weightiness.

IO EXTRACTS 500MG CARTRIDGE A new brand available at Nature Med, the makers of IO extracts say they pack up to 90 percent THC into the cartridge. We found the flavor to be mellow and smooth and the liftoff to be one of the best

With the non-psychoactive CBD acting as the new kid on the block compared to the classic THC, cannabis consumers can be unsure which compound will get the job done best. Luckily for the indecisive, Cannabliss is making some tasty gummies offering a quality amount of each medicine. The Cannabliss “Daily Dose” High CBD Gummies feature a one-for-one mixture of medicine: 7.5 mg of CBD and 7.5 mg of THC. These little stars are infused with enough cannabis to hit quick but last for multiple hours, and the double compound formula means you’re sure to experience a nice balance of head and body relaxation, with the reduction of pain and anxiety that CBD is praised for. Our tester reported a mellowing effect with those initial stages of heady relaxation enjoyably lasting a bit longer than other edibles. Cannabliss’ double-whammy “broad spectrum” therapy gummies come in packages of various sizes, from only two gummies to more than a dozen, but those rich little stars remain the same: powerful and reliable.

UNCLE HERB’S CHILL PILLS ANYTIME CAPS Once these 25 mg capsules dissolve, you are treated to a hint of spicy, cannabis flavor. You might wake up a little groggy in the morning after ingesting before bed, but that’s easily shaken with a nice CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

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cup of coffee for a mellow start to the day. More than one at a time can make going to the bathroom in the middle of the night an adventure, especially if you have cats.

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is great for reducing back, joint and headache pain without too much of a high.

BAKED BROS QUALITY THC GUMMIES (PEACH RINGS) These have a strong flavor with very “weedy” undertones. Basically, it tastes like you just took a hit, and the flavor gets worse if you let them sit too long.

If you can get over that, or it doesn’t bother you, the high is pretty good. You won’t feel any pain, but it is a much stronger high than some edibles. Don’t make many plans if you’re a lightweight.

INFUSION BAKERY PEACH RINGS Great flavor with only a slight “weedy” taste. Infusion, which does high-quality but very sweet candies and baked good, delivers peach rings that taste like the ones you get out of the candy aisle with plenty of euphoric effects.

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These caramels come in 60 mg doses in a variety of flavors, including the tasty Dulce de Leche and Fluffer Nutter.

You should know your own dose before eating one of these, but we advise cutting them into thirds (at least) unless you want to be glued to the floor for several hours. Tasty, mellow buzz that will let you wake up feeling rested and refreshed. One of the mysteries of the universe: Why are edibles so delicious when cannabis makes you so hungry?

UNCLE HERB’S FULL SPECTRUM BERRY JELLIES CANDY (HYBRID BLEND) Uncle Herb delivers a pretty good berry flavor, with only a hint of “weedy” flavoring. There’s a mellow intensity that’s good for getting basic aches and pains to go away. Only downside is they do get hard pretty quickly.

WYLD SATIVA ENHANCED CANNABIS-INFUSED RASPBERRY GUMMIES These soft gummies have a delicious raspberry flavor and the cannister keeps them from getting hard. Mellow intensity that

It turns out that heavy cream and vanilla pair really well with cannabis extract.

These vanilla caramels carry very little cannabis flavor but at 15 mg, they’re surely enough for most people’s daily dose. It’s also a bargain, with two caramels—for a total of 30mg—retailing for $5. Visit the Green Halo—home dispensary for Canna Confections—on a Monday for 35% off that low price.

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Best Delivery Service

Earth’s Healing

Thanks to the ’rona outbreak and the subsequent weed rush, Earth’s Healing has had to suspend its delivery service, but they hope to have it back up and running soon. When it’s operational, the dispensary delivers across the metro area for a simple flat fee: If you order between $40 and $100 in goods, there’s a $10 fee. If you order between $101 and $200, there’s a $5.

And if you’re ordering more than $200, there’s no fee at all.

Second place: Desert Bloom Re-Leaf Center Third place: Downtown Dispensary/D2

Best Certification Center

Tumbleweeds Health Center

Until we see Arizona voters approve recreational weed for adult users, we are gonna have to get a license to smoke it—and that requires a recommendation from a doctor.

Voters say the place to get that done is Tumbleweeds Health Center, which will get you legal with a minimum of hassle— provided you have an underlying health condition, of course.

Second place: Dr. Reeferalz Third place: Sun Valley Certification Center

Best MMJ Doctor

Dr. Heather Moroso

Dr. Heather Moroso will not only help you with your certification, but will help you work out your health issues. She’s the real deal, and a badass doc besides.

Second place: Dr. Nancy Robbins Third place: Dr. Phillip Glotser

Best Waiting Room

Green Halo

Here’s why so many people love Green Halo’s waiting room: It’s right next door to the kitchen where they bake the brownies!

It’s just like having that fresh-baked-cookies smell when you’re selling a house: An underlying scent that will subconsciously put customers at ease—and maybe even give them the munchies.

Second place: Health’s Healing North Third place: Botanica

Best Customer Service

Green Halo

Green Halo may be one of the smaller dispensaries in town, but it’s also one the most welcoming.

Second place: Earth’s Healing Third place: Prime Leaf

Best Sativa Concentrate

Halo Concentrates

As with the indica concentrate, Halo Concentrates’ sativa extract offerings deliver a quality experience when you are looking for relief.

Second place: Earth Extracts Third place: Venom Extracts

Halo Extracts

Halo Extracts sweeps the concentrate category with this win.

Second place: Earth Extracts Third place: MedLava

Best Soft-Drink Edible Aunt Ellie’s Daily Dose

Aunt Ellie’s Daily Dose, baked right here in Tucson at the Green Halo dispensary, is a fresh 25mg treat that will most certainly get you through your day.

Second place: Infusion Brownie Third place: Korova Brownie

Green Halo pre-roll

Even with all these brownies, tinctures, cartridges and oinments, sometimes you just want an old-school joint. Our readers say that Green Halo’s strain-specific preroll is just heavenly.

Second place: Earth’s Healing pre-roll Third place: Dutchie’s six-pack

Halo Concentrates

You have an abundance of cannabis extracts to choose from, but Weekly readers took a shine to Halo’s line this year.

Second place: Earth Extracts Third place: MPX

Best THC Brownie

Best Hybrid Concentrate

Best Pre-Roll

Best Indica Concentrate

THC—available with or without hemp milk—is probably enough to keep you buzzing all day long.

Second place: Newton’s Soda Third place: Infusion Edibles Soda

Best Candy THC Edible

Cannabliss Gummies

Halo Infusion Cold Brew Coffee

Made in partnership with local brewer Yellow Brick Coffee, Halo Infusions’ cold brew coffee brings a whole new meaning to your morning coffee buzz. In fact, this fresh drink loaded with 50mg of medicinal

These star-shaped gummies, at 15mg each, are a sweet treat made with high-terpene, broad-spectrum crude extract that will definitely get you blissed out. See review, page 12.

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Best Craft Baked Edible

Best THC Topical

THC Wellness

Our testers found that THC wellness left them feeling temporary pain relief from chronic ailments—and that’s what this stuff is supposed to do. Slather it on and feel better.

Second place: Chronic Health Topicals Third place: iLava Touch

Best Sativa Vape Cartridge

Halo X

Made with high-terpene, full spectrum extract, these cartridges have a smooth flavor and solid medicinal effects.

Second place: Earthvape Third place: iLava

Best Hybrid Vape Cartridge

Halo X

As with the indica vape cartridge, the Halo X hybrid gets the job done.

Second place: Earthvape Third place: iLava

Halo Infusions Lemon Blondie

There are a lot of fine baked goods out there these days, but our readers picked the Lemon Blondie made right in here Tucson by Halo Infusions. With a lovely lemon zing and topped with a sweet frosting, this 100mg treat is wonderful dessert to share with your fellow cardholders.

Second place: Sublime Lemon Tea Cake Third place: Infusion Chocolate Chunk Cookie

Best Indica Vape Cartridge

Best CBD Vape Cartridge

Halo Concentrates

Halo Concentrates are high-quality gateway to getting a quality high.

Second place: Earthvape Premium Third place: iLava XXX

Halo X

If you’re looking for some of the relief that cannabis provides without the euphoric buzz, these CDB cartridges are the medine for you.

Second place: Earthvape Third place: iLava

Specials Best New Patient Special

Green Halo: Free Eighth

Green Halo keeps it simple for new patients: A free eighth of an ounce of kind bud.

Second place: Earth’s Healing Third place: Desert Bloom Re-Leaf Center

Best Monday Special

Green Halo

Green Halo came out on top with its 35% off all juice, tinctures, topicals and edibles, beating out Earth’s Healing’s BOGO on premium EarthVapes and Downtown Dispensary’s BOGO on a gram of MedLava Extracts.

Second place: Earth’s Healing Third place: Downtown Dispensary

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Best Tuesday Special

Earth’s Healing

Earth’s Healing’s low price of $10 a gram on all strains is tops in this category, but readers also liked Downtown Dispensary’s mid/top tier pricing of $10 a gram and Prime Leaf’s discount of 20% on edibles, concentrates and topicals.

Second place: Downtown Dispensary Third place: Prime Leaf

Select cartridges (buy 2, get 2) and Green Med’s similar BOGO on Select cartridges.

Second place: Prime Leaf Third place: Green Med

Best Friday Special

Green Halo

Earth’s Healing

A pre-packed ounce for $100 at Earth’s Healing beat out Green Halo’s free gram with the purchase of a quarter-ounce and Downtown Dispensary’s offer of $30 for an eighth-ounce.

Second place: Green Halo Third place: Downtown Dispensary

Earth’s Healing

With an offer of 20 percent off your edibles if you buy two or more, Earth’s Healing beats out Prime Leaf’s bulk deal on

Best Saturday Special

Green Halo’s offer of a gram of shatter for $25 beats out Earth Healing’s deal of four grams of Earth Extracts concentrates for $80 and Downtown Dispensary’s offer of any 2 grams of MedLava extract for $60.

Second place: Earth’s Healing Third place: Downtown Dispensary

Best Wednesday Special

Best Thursday Special

second with its $75 half-ounce prepack, while Downtown Dispensary/D2’s halfprice 1000mg iLava Delta 8 Clarity vape cartridge comes in third.

Second place: Prime Leaf Third place: Downtown Dispensary

Best Sunday Special

Earth’s Healing

Earth’s Healing

Earth’s Healing lets you choose any deal, which gives you plenty of options—and reasons to stop by. Prime Leaf comes in

Earth’s Healing BOGO on Premium Earth Vapes takes first place, while second place goes to Nature Med, where you can pick any deal, and third place goes to Prime Leaf, where you’ll find 20 percent off edibles, concentrates and topicals.

Second place: Nature Med Third place: Prime Leaf

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Best Happy Hour Special

Nature Med

Nature Med takes this category by offering a whole mess of deals from 4:20 to 5:20 every day: 15% off edibles/$5 premium prerolls/10% all vape cartridges/ and buy-one-get-one-50 percent off all grams.

Desert Bloom Re-Leaf comes in second with 15% off all concentrates between 7-10 a.m. and 7-10 p.m. In third place, Prime Leaf offers 15% off early risers between 9-11 a.m. Monday through Friday.

Second place: Desert Bloom Re-Leaf Center Third place: Prime Leaf

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ARTS & CULTURE

JEFF GARDNER

Artists and museums alike are struggling to find funding during pandemic closures.

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As arts organizations are crushed by the COVID-19 epidemic, relief funds are going fast

By Jeff Gardner Jeff@tucsonlocalmedia.com

ing some semblance of their past employment during these unprecedented times.

On Monday, April 6, the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona THE ARTS INDUSTRY EMPLOYED announced they would be distributing more than 90,000 Arizonans and added $50,000 in emergency funding to the local more than $9 billion to the state’s econoarts community via two new grants: The my last year, according to the Bureau of Pivot Grant and the Emergency Relief Economic Analysis and National Endowment for the Arts. But like many industries, Fund.

The Pivot Grant will fund “alternative the arts sector—in all its various genres—is under assault by the COVID-19 pandemic; methods” of sharing art in compliance with pandemic guidelines set up by the Centers galleries are shuttered, concert halls are for Disease Control. The grants will range closed and theatres are quiet.

While those billions in economic impact from $500 to $1,000 to individual artists and $1,000 to $2,000 for nonprofit arts orgaaren’t completely stopped, the Arizona nizations sharing art in a virtual, digital or Commission on the Arts says that artists socially distant manner. and contract workers in particular are fac“In crafting this call, I especially didn’t ing unprecedented loss of income due to widespread cancelation of events, residen- want to point to specific examples of cies and production contracts. Luckily, mul- message or art, because I didn’t want it to tiple organizations both local and national seem exclusive to one type of method. I wanted this call to be open to the type of inare announcing special coronavirus relief funds and opportunities for affected artists. novation we’re seeing across the field right The artists themselves are also finding new now,” said Arts Foundation grants manager Natalia Gabrielsen. “We’re open to whatevways of spreading their art and maintain-

er kind of method folks are using right now to get their artwork out.”

The Emergency Relief Fund, a collaborative fund between the Arizona Community Foundation and Arts Foundation, will provide emergency support for work artists, teaching artists or other arts contract-workers who have experienced canceled events, residencies or contracts.

According to Gabrielsen, the most money the Arts Foundation previously put into a single grant, excluding their annual general operating support grant, is the $24,000 new works artist grant. This funding will result in anywhere from 10 to 50 grants for Pima County artists, and is expected to distribute by mid-May after a committee examines the online applications.

However, Arts Foundation board president Eva Romero admits that $50,000 is “not even close to enough” to ease the burden of COVID-19 on Tucson’s arts community.

“The demand is way outweighing the supply… But it’s what we can do right now,” Romero said. “I really want to encourage anyone who can to give to either of the funds, or some of the other artist relief funds, because we need art not just in the way we used to think about it, but in the way it’s becoming essential now, and the way artists contribute to problem solving in a totally different way.”

The pandemic is stressing arts funding across the state. For example, the Arizona Commission on the Arts established a dedicated Emergency Relief Fund for Arizona Artists and Arts Professionals to provide grants of $500 to $1,500. The fund was seeded with $130,000 from the Arizona Community Foundation and another $25,000 from other partners. This funding was anticipated to provide approximately 150 grants. The Commission received more than 500 applications within the first day of opening the Fund, and submissions are now closed.

“We know that these grants are unlikely to cover the full scope of lost income you may be experiencing. Please know that this is but one strategy being explored and implemented,” the Commission wrote when announcing the fund.

Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance executive director Kate Marquez says that because SAACA is not a registered funding organization, they are not currently establishing any funds or grants for local artists. However, they are still supporting the local arts community by creating an extensive list for artists’ resources on their website.

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SAACA is also preparing their CATALYST Maker Space to live-stream artistic content and educational classes. They are developing a virtual art gallery, where community members will be able to submit visual art, music, film, dance, new recipes, and anything else inspired by the current events.

For musicians specifically, Tucson Symphony Orchestra artistic manager Benjamin Nisbet created the Tucson Musicians COVID19 Relief fund on GoFundMe. In only three weeks, the fund reached its $25,000 goal thanks to more than 300 donors, and continues to build a revenue pool for local musicians who could use some money for “food, medicine, bills, childcare and other essentials.”

The Phoenix-based Labor’s Community Service Agency has also established a fund for workers in the entertainment industry, such as at theaters, and events venues.

On a national level, the nonprofit Creative Capital—which was founded in the ’90s to support artists after funding cuts from the National Endowment for the Arts—is offering financial resources for artists affected by the pandemic.

“There’s no way we’re going to get through this without art; we need it right now,” Romero said. “Every time I talk to an individual artist or someone who represents an arts organization, they talk to me about the important social issues they’re addressing with their work. Artists are doing very creative problem solving at essential levels within the community… and we wanted to stimulate that even further.” ■

Nominations Open for the Carmen Awards!

Taming of the Review is celebrating the Tucson live theatre community with The Carmen Awards. Since the pandemic has put a stop to in-person gatherings and left theatres dark, now more than ever we want to honor the hard work of our creative community.

Nominations are open to the public!

They need your input! Saw a show that blew you away or an actor who was truly captivating? Make sure they are recognized by nominating them! You can nominate as many worthy actors and productions as you think are deserving. They are taking a new approach to categories, namely, they’re ditching gendered categories in favor of having more variety in the types of performance and are including more design and technical awards. Please keep your nominations to productions from the 2019/2020 season.

Nominate here: tamingofthereview.com/ awards

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What’s your soundtrack to the end of the world as we know it? The Weekly wants to know what you’re listening to while you’re under orders to stay at home.

This week: David Abbott, the Weekly’s production manager, shares his soundtrack. (Thanks to local DJ Carl Hanni for the inspiration.) Send your stay-at-home playlist to jimn@ tucsonlocalmedia.com.

Elvis Costello, “Waitin’ for the End of the World” From 1977’s My Aim is True, “Waitin’” is the final song, capturing all the punky, teenage angst of the generation that came of age in the ’70s. Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you’re comin’/’cause you really started somethin’.

The Doors, “Not to Touch the Earth” There has to be a Jim Morrison song on this list. There are many dark, violent themes running through the Doors music, inspired by the social violence of the late ’60s. Morrison’s repertoire was filled with dark images of a foundering society with a bleak future. “Not to Touch the Earth” is a small ray of hope that we might be able to avoid the inevitable by running away. And it has one of my favorite lines in all of rock ’n’ roll: Some outlaws live by the side of the lake/the minister’s daughter’s in love with a snake.

Peter Gabriel, “Waiting for the Big One” From Peter Gabriel’s first solo album released the day before my 16th birthday in 1977. Self-titled, but known as Car for its cover, this one shows why Gabriel was the

real talent behind Genesis. Cynical and bluesy, the tune captures the mood of the late-’70s, when we wrestled with the meaning of the Vietnam War and entered a nearly hot phase of the Cold War while we tried to party on through societal PTSD. Armageddon, “The Buzzard” Armageddon was considered one of the “super groups” of the 1970s. The Buzzard is a frenetic paean to despair. Keith Relf, a member of the Yardbirds with Eric Clapton, performed some of his finest vocals on the album released in 1975, almost a year to the day before his death. This song was not disco, constructed around the blistering guitar licks of Steamhammer’s Martin Pugh.

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, “Trouble Every Day; Help I’m a Rock (Suite in Three Movements)” Released in mid-1966, the Freak Out! album was the debut for the Mothers and even featured a cameo by Dr. John, on piano. “Help I’m a Rock” is an Orwellian operetta in three parts ending with “It Can’t Happen Here.” “Trouble Every Day” is a classic that captured the rage, violence and unrest of the 1960s. And we thought we were past all that, didn’t we?

The Police, “Walking in Your Footsteps”; “When the World is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around”; “Canary in a Coalmine” I came to The Police late in the band’s career when I first heard 1983’s Synchronicity, one of the greatest apocalyptic albums of all time. “Walking in Your Footsteps” was a dark, stark tune comparing the ascendancy—and eventual demise—of the dinosaurs to the ascendency of man. But lest we forget, they also scored end-of-the-world points with “When the World is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around” and “Canary in a Coalmine” from 1980’s Zenyatta Mondatta.

U2, “Until the End of the World” I didn’t really like U2 until I heard the Achtung Baby album. More angsty Cold War songs from an Irish group that knew what bloody struggles looked like from years of internal strife in its own country.

Or they could have been twisted love songs. But really, what’s the difference?

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries artist Vincent van Gogh got started on his life’s work relatively late. At ages 25 and 26 he made failed attempts to train as a pastor and serve as a missionary. He didn’t launch his art career in earnest until he was 27. During the next 10 years, he created 860 paintings —an average of 1.7 every week—as well as over 1,200 additional works of art. For comparison, the prolific painter Salvador Dali made 1,500 paintings in 61 years. During the coming 12 months, Aries, you could achieve a van Gogh-like level of productiveness in your own chosen field—especially if you lay the foundations now, during our stay-at-home phase.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Most authors do their writing while sitting on chairs in front of desks. But long before there were standing desks, poet Rainer Maria Rilke and children’s author Lewis Carroll wrote their books while standing up. Novelist Henry James had eight desks, but typically paced between them as he dictated his thoughts to a secretary. And then there have been weirdoes like poet Robert Lowell and novelist Truman Capote.

They attended to their craft as they lay in their bed. I suggest you draw inspiration from those two in the coming weeks. It’ll be a favorable time to accomplish masterpieces of work and play while in the prone position.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): While sleeping, most of us have over a thousand dreams every year. Many are hard to remember and not worth remembering.

But a beloved few can be life-changers. They have the potential to trigger epiphanies that transform our destinies for the better. In my astrological opinion, you are now in a phase when such dreams are more likely than usual. That’s why I invite you to keep a pen and notebook by your bed so as to capture them. For inspiration, read this testimony from Jasper Johns, whom some call America’s “foremost living artist”: “One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up

and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.” (Painting flags ultimately became one of Johns’ specialties.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) was a renowned author who wrote The Good Soldier, a novel that has been called “one of the 100 greatest novels of all time.” Yet another very famous author, Henry James (1843–1916), was so eager to escape hanging out with Ford that he once concealed himself behind a tree so as to not be seen. You have astrological permission to engage in comparable strategies during the coming weeks. It won’t be a time when you should force yourself to endure boring, meaningless, and unproductive tasks.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I hope that during the coronavirus crisis you have been entertaining wild truths and pondering the liberations you will initiate when the emergency has passed. I trust you have been pushing your imagination beyond its borders and wandering into the nooks and crannies of your psyche that you were previously hesitant to explore. Am I correct in my assumptions, Leo? Have you been wandering outside your comfort zone and discovering clues about how, when things return to normal, you can add spice and flair to your rhythm?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I like this quote by the author Jake Remington: “Fate whispers to the warrior, ‘You cannot withstand the storm.’ The warrior whispers back, ‘I am the storm.’” Although this passage is more melodramatic than necessary for your needs in the coming weeks, I think it might be good medicine that will help you prevail over the turbulence of the coronavirus crisis. Getting yourself into a storm-like mood could provide you with the personal power necessary to be unflappable and authoritative. You should also remember that a storm is not inherently bad. It may be akin to a catharsis or orgasm that relieves the tension and

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I am a super queer presenting female who recently accepted that I have desires for men. My partner of two years is bisexual and understands the desires, but has personally dealt with those desires via masturbation while my desires include acting. Her perspective is that the grass is greener where you water it and that my desire to act is immature, selfish, and has an unrealistic end game. What gives when you don’t feel fulfilled sexually in a monogamous relationship?

—Open Or Over?

Something definitely gives when a person doesn’t feel fulfilled in a monog-

amous relationship—sometimes it’s an ultimatum that’s given, sometimes it’s a one-time-only hall pass that’s given, sometimes it’s an agreement to open the relationship that’s given. But the relationship sometimes gives, e.g. the relationship collapses under the weight of competing and mutually exclusive needs and desires. If you want to open things up (if allowed) and she wants to keep things closed (no allowance), OOO, it’s ultimately your willpower—your commitment to honoring the commitment you’ve made—that’s likely to give.

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clears the air.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran rapper and activist Talib Kweli says, “You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to know when to be humble.

You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.” You Librans tend to be skilled in this artful approach to life: activating and applying the appropriate attitude as is necessary for each new situation. And I’m happy to report that your capacity for having just the right touch at the right time will be a crucial asset in the coming weeks. Trust your intuition to guide you through every subtle shift of emphasis.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio artist Marie Laurencin (1883–1956) enjoyed a colorful fate.

One of the few female Cubist painters, she was a prominent figure in the Parisian avant-garde.

She was also the muse and romantic partner of renowned poet Guillaume Apollinaire. But there came a turning point when she abandoned her relationship with Apollinaire. “I was 25 and he was sleeping with all the women,” she said, “and at 25 you don’t stand for that, even from a poet.” Is there a comparable situation in your life, Scorpio? A role you relish but that also takes a toll? Now is a favorable time to re-evaluate it. I’m not telling you what you should decide, only that you should think hard about it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1596–1680) was a prodigious, inventive creator. One scholar wrote, “What Shakespeare is to drama, Bernini may be to sculpture.” He designed and built public squares, fountains, and buildings, many in Rome, which embodied his great skills as both sculptor and architect. Unlike many brilliant artists alive today, Bernini was deeply religious. Every night for 40 years, he walked from his home to pay a devotional visit to the Church of the Gesù. According to my reading of the astrological factors, now would be an excellent time for you to engage in reverential rituals like those—but without leaving your home, of course. Use this social-distancing time to

her girlfriend. It has been going on for over a year. At first I actually supported the exploration because my friend has a really unsupportive girlfriend who has done really crappy things to her over the course of their relationship. I kept pushing for her to make a decision and use this affair as a way for her to free herself, but she is just coasting along with her girlfriend and her lover. She’s under a lot of stress and she’s turned into a major liar and it’s creeping me out. I’m considering either telling her girlfriend myself (though I promised my friend I wouldn’t) or maybe I just need to end this friendship. My friend’s double life upsets me. It’s just been going on too long.

—Is My Friend An Asshole?

If your friend—the one leading the

draw reinvigoration from holy places within you or in your memory.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): As I understand the current chapter of your life story, you have been doing the unspectacular but yeoman work of recharging your spiritual batteries. Although you may have outwardly appeared to be quiet and still, you have in fact been generating and storing up concentrated reserves of inner power. Because of the coronavirus crisis, it’s not yet time to tap into those impressive reserves and start channeling them into a series of dynamic practical actions. But it is time to formulate the practical actions you will take when the emergency has passed.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian poet Jacques Prévert offered a variation on the famous Christian supplication known as the Lord’s Prayer. The original version begins, “Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.” But Prévert’s variation says, “Our father who art in heaven: Stay there.” Being an atheist, he had no need for the help and support of a paternal deity. I understand his feeling. I tend to favor the Goddess myself. But for you Aquarians right now, even if you’re allergic to talk of a divine presence, I’ll recommend that you seek out generous and inspiring masculine influences. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will benefit from influences that resemble good fathering.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): How skillful are you in expressing what you want? Wait. Let me back up and reformulate that. How skillful are you in knowing what you want and expressing the truth about what you want to the people who might ultimately be able to give it to you or help you get it? This is the most important question for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. If you find that you’re fuzzy about what you want or hazy about asking for what you want, correct the problems. ■ Homework: For three days, uphold your highest ideal in every little way you can imagine. Report results at FreeWillAstrology.com.

double life—is asking you to run interference for her, if she’s asking you to lie to her girlfriend, or if she’s asked you to compromise your integrity in some way, she’s an asshole and you’re a sap; tell your friend you’re done covering for her and that you won’t be able to see her again until the deceit or the pandemic is over, whichever comes first. If the issue your friend expects you to ooze sympathize while she goes on and on about the mess she’s made of her life, IMFAA, simply refuse to discuss the mess that is her love life with her. Remind her that she already knows what you think needs to do—she needs to break the fuck up with her shitty girlfriend—and then change the subject.

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loves dicks. I love dicks so much that I fantasize about having one. Nothing brings me to orgasm more quickly or reliably than closing my eyes and imagining my own dick, or imagining myself as my partner, and what they’re feeling through their dick. I love being a woman, and I’m afraid to bring this up with any partner(s) of mine. Is this super weird? Am I secretly trans somehow? Am I overthinking this?

—Perfect Minus Penis It’s not that weird, some people are trans and you could be one of them (but fantasizing about having a dick ≠ being a male), and you’re overthinking what you should be enjoying. Buy a strap-on, tell your partners about your fantasies, and enjoy having the dick you can have.

I wonder if you might be able to put a label on this sex act: It has to do with overstimulation, in this case of a penis (mine).

After receiving a wonderful hand job, the giver kept stroking me purposefully. My penis was in a heightened, super-sensitive state. It was almost like being tickled, if you’re ticklish. I was being forcefully held down (consensually), and just as I thought I couldn’t take it anymore, I had a second amazing orgasm. I didn’t ejaculate again, it was more of a body orgasm. It came in waves and everything was warm.

It was mind-blowing, spiritual, galactic, unique, and very similar to how I’ve heard women describe their orgasms. Ever hear of anything like this? Is this some sort of Japanese underground kink thing?

—Witty Hilarious Overzealous Amateur The act you’re describing already has a name, WHOA, and an entry on Urban Dictionary: apple-polishing. Most men find the sensation of having the head of their cock worked so overwhelming that their bodies involuntarily recoil, which makes it difficult to polish someone’s apple if the “victim” isn’t restrained in some way. But it’s not painful—it’s like being tickled; indeed, the victim usually reacts with desperate laughter and gasping pleas for it to stop. (Don’t ask me how I know.) That all-over feeling of euphoria you experienced when your apple got polished was most likely a wave of endorphins—like a runner who pushes herself past her physical limits and experiences an full-body “runner’s high,” you were pushed past your physical limits, WHOA, and experienced the same sort of high.

I’m a 35-year-old straight guy. I recently

started seeing an amazing 34-year-old girl. We love being around each other, but during sex, neither of us can come. It’s infuriating, to say the least. She has no trouble when she masturbates and I know I have no trouble when I masturbate, so why can’t we come together?

—Can’t Understand Matter If you can come when you masturbate and she can come when she masturbates, CUM, masturbate together and you’ll be coming together. Mutual masturbation isn’t a sad consolation prize—mutual masturbation is sex and it can be great sex.

And the more often you come together through mutual masturbation, CUM, the likelier it gets that you’ll be able to come together while enjoying other things.

I have a weird and terrible problem. I’ve been seeing someone new, and have just discovered that I get diarrhea every time I swallow his come. Like debilitating pee poops an hour after, every time. I know the solution to the problem would be to stop swallowing, but I was wondering if you had ever heard of this before or knew why this was.

—My Sad Asshole I have heard of this before, MSA, and superstar Savage Love guest expert Dr. Debby Herbenick unpacked the cause for another reader a few years back: “Prostaglandins are substances made by the body and that the body is sensitive to. Semen contains prostaglandins—and prostaglandins can have a laxative effect on people. Related: If you’ve ever felt a little loosey-goosey right before getting your period, that’s also thanks to prostaglandins (which spike just before your period, because the prostaglandins get the uterine muscles to contract, which then helps to shed the lining of the uterus, resulting in a menstrual period).

So why don’t more semen swallowers find themselves running to the bathroom post-blowjob? I don’t know why most people aren’t extra-sensitive to prostaglandins, but fortunately most of us aren’t, or there would probably be a lot less swallowing in the world.”

So, MSA, you’ll have to stop swallowing your boyfriend’s come or only swallow when you have immediate access to a toilet in a restroom with a powerful fan. ■ Listen to the Savage Lovecast- this week with Erin Gibson. www.savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage.

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