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COVID-19

THE LOCAL NUMBERS. The number of Arizona’s confirmed novel coronavirus cases topped 188,000 as of Tuesday, Aug. 11, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services. Pima County had seen 18,381 of the state’s 188,737 confirmed cases. A total of 4,199 Arizonans had died after contracting COVID-19, according to the Aug. 11 report. The number of hospitalized COVID cases continues to decline. ADHS reported that as of Aug. 10, 1,574 COVID patients were hospitalized in the state, the lowest number since June 15, when 1,506 COVID patients were hospitalized. The number of Arizonans hospitalized by the virus peaked at 3,517 on July 13. A total of 949 people visited ERs on Aug. 9 with COVID symptoms, the lowest the state had seen since June 14, when 931 people visited ERs. That number peaked at 2,008 on July 7. A total of 510 COVID-19 patients were in intensive care units on Aug. 9. The number in ICUs peaked at 970 on July 13. THE NATIONAL NUMBERS. More than half a million people had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, which had killed more than 163,000 people in the United States as of Tuesday, Aug. 11, according to tracking by Johns Hopkins University. GET A TEST. Pima County is launching new pop-up testing sites in various locations around the region. The county also teamed up with the City of Tucson to open a third testing center last week at the Udall Center, 7200 E. Tanque Verde Road. The new center, which requires a nasal swab, joins a similar facility at Kino Event Center, 2805 E. Ajo Way. A site at the northside Ellie Towne Flowing Wells Community Center, 1660 W. Ruthrauff Road, involves a saliva test developed by ASU. The testing centers offer easy-toschedule appointments—often with sameday availability—and you get results in less than 72 hours. Find locations of the pop-up testing sites and schedule an appointment at pima.gov/covid19testing. BACK TO SCHOOL, SORTA. With county officials saying the coronavirus remains too widespread to reopen schools for in-person lessons, parents throughout the region struggled with learning new passwords and adapting to new

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platforms as local districts launched the virtual school year. The Arizona Department of Education and the Arizona Department of Health Services rolled out new metrics last week to determine if schools should reopen. The metrics, which school districts should take into consideration but are not mandates from the state, include three basic guidelines: Communities should see two consecutive weeks of back-to-back drops in the total number of positive coronavirus tests; two weeks with test positivity below 7 percent; and two weeks with less than 10 percent of overall hospital visits linked to coronavirus. CORONAVIRUS RAVAGING TUCSON PRISON. Nearly half of all incarcerated people housed inside the Whetstone Unit of the Tucson state prison complex have tested positive for COVID-19, the Arizona Department of Corrections announced Tuesday, Aug. 4. The department indicated that 517 people out of the total 1,066 population have the virus. They are currently being housed together in a separate living area and are receiving “appropriate medical care.” The department noted in a press release that COVID-positive prisoners “will not be allowed back into the general population until they have been medically cleared. In addition to measures that are already in place, all inmates at Whetstone will receive meals and all required medication and medical services in their housing units.” More than 890 people have tested positive for COVID-19 across the state’s 16 prison complexes and 15 people have died as of last week. GRIDLOCK IN DC. Negotiations between

White House officials and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate collapsed last week. Democrats were seeking a $3 trillion aid package that includes an extension of the additional $600 a week in unemployment benefits through the end of the year (which expired at the end of July), as well as aid to states, more spending on coronavirus testing and other provisions. While Democrats agreed to drop their demand to $2 trillion, Republicans said they wouldn’t spend more than $1 trillion. Following the end of negotiations, President Donald Trump ordered a $300-a-week extension of unemployment payments provided states agree to kick in $100 a week as well, paid for with funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency; a deferral of payroll taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare that workers will have to pay back unless Congress acts to make the deferral permanent; a threemonth deferment of student loan payments; and a request that the Department of Housing see if there’s anything that can be done to help Americans avoid evictions. Gov. Doug Ducey said at a late July press conference that there was no reason to increase Arizona’s current maximum unemployment payment of $240 a week, although he did ask Congress to extend the extra unemployment funding on a federal level. As of press time, it remained to be seen if Ducey would take action to increase Arizona’s share in order to receive the extra federal funding, but critics say that Trump’s actions are largely confusing and inadequate to deal with the coronavirus crisis. —By Jim Nintzel with additional reporting from Kathleen B. Kunz, Austin Counts, Jeff Gardner and Tara Foulkrod.

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Last week’s primary set the stage for the November election. The Skinny has seven takeaways about how the dust is settling and what we can expect between now and Nov. 3, when voters will decide not just the presidential contest, but also a U.S. Senate race alongside campaigns for congress, the Arizona statehouse, county offices and more.

1. KELLY VS. MCSALLY IS ARIZONA’S MARQUEE RACE OF 2020 MARTHA MCSALLY DISPATCHED GOP challenger “Demand” Daniel McCarthy, capturing 75 percent of the vote. Now she has to face Democrat Mark Kelly, the retired NASA astronaut who is leading McSally in the polls. Arizona officially became a battleground state in 2018, when McSally lost her 2018 Senate bid to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. (Gov. Doug Ducey later appointed McSally to complete the late Sen. John McCain’s term.) Both McSally and Kelly have already spent north of $20 million on their campaigns and McSally still has $11 million to spend, while Kelly has $21 million. On top of that, independent campaign committees are expected to spend tens of millions more before the race is settled in November. McSally has consistently trailed Kelly in the polls, sometimes by double digits, and even Republicans are acknowledging that she is in deep trouble. McSally has focused her campaign against Kelly on his minor business ties with China, saying the retired Navy combat pilot is a pawn of Beijing. Kelly has focused his campaign on health care, pointing out McSally’s votes to eliminate protections for people with preexisting health conditions and to significantly slash funding for Medicaid, on which many low-income Americans rely. Count on this one getting very dirty before Election Day.

2. DEMOCRATS HAVE THE ADVANTAGE IN SOUTHERN AZ CONGRESSIONAL RACES WHILE ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN, Democrats are favored in Southern Arizona districts as Team Blue continues to lead generic national polls; on average, according to political poll tracking website FiveThirtyEight, 48.5 of those polled say they would support a Democratic candidate for Congress, while 40.9 say they would support a Republican candidate. In Congressional District 1, Rep. Tom O’Halleran had 59 percent of the vote against primary challenger Eva Putzova in last week’s Democratic primary. As he seeks a third term in this competitive congressional district, O’Halleran will face farmer and attorney Tiffany Shedd, who captured 55 percent of the vote against Oro Valley attorney Nolan Reidhead. O’Halleran has a big fundraising advantage over Shedd; as of June 30, O’Halleran had raised more than $2 million for the race and still had $1.3 million in bank. By contrast, Shedd had raised roughly $625,000 and had $214,000 left in the bank. The Cook Political Report puts CD1 in “lean Democratic” column. District 1 includes Oro Valley, Marana, parts of Pinal County, much of eastern rural Arizona, Flagstaff and some of the northern Arizona Native American reservations. In Congressional District 2, Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick captured 77 percent of the vote against primary challenger and attorney Peter Quill. In November, she’ll face Brandon Martin, who captured 43 percent of the vote to defeat Noran Eric Rudan, who owns a local pest control company, and Joseph Morgan, a government employee who works at Pima Community College. While CD2 is competitive on paper (with a voter breakdown that’s roughly one-third Democratic, one-third Republican and one-third independent), Kirkpatrick goes into the general with a huge cash advantage over Martin, at least as of the most recent campaign finance reports.

Through the end of June, Kirkpatrick had raised more than $1.4 million and had $751,000 in the bank, while Martin had raised just $186,000 and had just $33,000 in the bank. Congressional District 2 includes the eastern half of Tucson and the Catalina Foothills area as well as Cochise County. The Cook Political Report puts CD2 in the “Solid Democratic” column. Congressman Raul Grijalva, who revealed last week that he had tested positive for coronavirus, did not have a primary opponent, but in the November general election, he will face Republican Daniel Wood, who is making his first bid for office in this heavily Democratic district that includes the west side of Tucson as well as Yuma.

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IN THE BIGGEST SHOCKER of the primary election, former state lawmaker Matt Heinz knocked out Pima County Supervisor Ramon Valadez, who has served on the board since he was first appointed in 2003. Heinz, who also works as an emergency room doctor, captured 53 percent of the vote to Valadez’s 34 percent in District 2, which stretches along the southside from downtown Tucson to Sahuarita. In the general election, Heinz will face Republican Anthony Sizer, who has CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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previously run unsuccessfully for the Arizona Legislature. While growth in Sahuarita has narrowed the Democratic advantage in the district, it still leans toward Team Blue. How rarely does an incumbent supervisor lose a primary? It hasn’t happened in nearly a quarter century, when John Even knocked out Paul Marsh in the 1996 GOP primary in District 4.

4. SPEAKING OF UPSETS, DEMOCRATS HAVE A SHOT AT PICKING UP THE DISTRICT 1 SEAT ON THE PIMA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. IN THE FOUR-WAY DISTRICT 1 GOP primary to replace Republican Ally Miller, Steve Spain came out on top, winning 33 percent of the vote. A political newcomer who had the endorsement of Miller, Spain defeated Oro Valley Town Council member Rhonda Piña, former state lawmaker Vic Williams and former Pima County Republican Party chair Bill Beard. Spain will now face Democratic candidate and former school administrator Rex Scott in the general election for this northside district that includes Marana, Oro Valley, Casas Adobes and the Catalina Foothills.

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5. SPEAKING OF THE BOARD OF SUPES: HERE’S WHAT THE OTHER RACES LOOK LIKE. THE REMAINDER OF THE November races for Board of Supes does not look especially competitive. In District 5, TUSD Board member Adelita Grijalva, daughter of Congressman Raul Grijalva, defeated Sunnyside School Board member Consuelo Hernandez. Grijalva, who captured 67 percent of the vote, will face Republican Fernando Gonzales in the race for the board seat formerly occupied by the late Richard Elias. In District 3, Supervisor Sharon Bronson easily won her primary race last week with 58 percent of the vote against Juan Padres, whose main argument against Bronson was that she was too old—not necessarily the best message when primary voters tend to trend older. Bronson will face perennial GOP candidate Gabby Mercer in November. In District 4, Supervisor Steve Christy defeated challenger John Backer in the GOP primary with 65 percent of the vote. Christy will face Democrat Steve Diamond in this GOP-leaning district that includes Tucson’s east side, Vail and Green Valley.

6. THERE’S BIG CHANGE COMING TO THE PIMA COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE LAURA CONOVER WON THE Democratic primary for Pima County Attorney and faces no Republican opposition in November. The defense attorney captured 58 percent of the vote against two prosecutors who were seeking the office, Jonathan Mosher, who won 36 percent, and Mark Diebolt, who captured 6 percent. While it would have been tough for a defense attorney to win this post in the past, the push for criminal justice reform in 2020 made this her year. “What we have is a strong majority calling for criminal justice reform,” Conover said. “That’s a powerful message and I’m honored to be the one who gets to carry the mandate forward.”

7. PIMA COUNTY HAS SOME RACES WORTH WATCHING IN THE GENERAL ELECTION DEMOCRATS RUNNING countywide in Pima County have a significant voter-registration advantage, but several of the races are worth following. The race for sheriff is a rematch. In the Democratic primary for Pima County Sheriff, Chris Nanos, who was appointed the seat in 2015 but lost it

after a procurement scandal erupted on his watch, captured 67 percent of the vote against Deputy Kevin Kubitskey, a union leader whose campaign erupted in scandal in July after his daughter accused him of abusing her. Nanos’ win sets up a rematch against Republican Mark Napier, who defeated Nanos four years ago. “The primary was a good first step and we’re very excited. The win certainly helps jazz the team up,” Nanos said. “We have a lot of work ahead of us.” In the primary race between two Democrats who are seeking to replace the retiring F. Ann Rodriguez as Pima County’s chief keeper of records, Gabriella Cázares-Kelly, an organizer with Indivisible Tohono, won 64 percent of the vote against Kim Challender, who has worked as Rodriguez’s chief deputy. Cázares-Kelly will face Republican Benny White, a longtime GOP activist who has served on the county’s Election Integrity Committee. In the primary to replace the retiring Assessor Bill Staples, Suzanne Drobie won 58 percent of the vote against Brian Johnson and Dustin Walters. She faces no Republican opposition for the seat. Republican incumbent Treasurer Beth Ford was unopposed in her primary race. She’ll face Democrat Brian Bickel in November.

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A TALE OF TWO SERVICE WORKERS IT IS GUY NORRIS’S LAST DAY at work and he steps out of the Starbucks kiosk inside the Safeway, having just served a pair of iced lattes, leaving behind a spotless, organized workspace and a masked colleague saying, “He’s funny, I’ll miss the humor. But we’re happy for Guy. Dude gets to follow his dreams.” Such dreams were nearly shattered a few months back when the tall 22-year-old tested positive for COVID. It was a harrowing time, for a moment, even if his symptoms didn’t amount to much more than a sore throat. His roommates, parents and girlfriend were terrified. He shut himself off to the world, no one else in his circle got sick, and nearly three weeks later, after waiting on three different health groups for clearance, he was back at work. He needed the work to survive and to save money to get the hell out of the work, and so he considers himself somehow charmed. “I never had to go to the hospital,” he says, “but the whole ordeal was pretty disorganized, just getting HR people to call me back. My symptoms were mild but I felt like a leper, was treated like one when I returned to work. I most definitely got it here [at Safeway], I had customers not wearing masks coughing on money, but this was before the mask protocol was put into place. “The mask protocol? Still some customers refuse to wear them. You can’t call the cops, you call a store manager instead, let them deal with it. “One family, two children and parents were here without masks and I asked them to put them on. They said, ‘Can’t, health conditions.’ And I thought, if you and your family have a health condition, why are you here?” He moves upstairs to the Safeway employee break room and takes a seat at a small lunch table, a refrigerator and posted COVID safety precautions highlight the workaday space. “That’s

it,” he says, and looks around the room as if he’s already resigned it to memory, his co-workers, moving in and out, anecdotes to it. The man who often unironically addresses customers “ma’am” and “sir” is out of here. The Las Vegas-born, Tucson-raised Guy is a theater kid, recalls a My Own Private Idaho-era Keanu Reeves; young, wide-eyed, filled of confidence without the arrogant side. No trace of cynicism, yet. He sports thick dark hair and a Van Dyke crushed beneath his pandemic mask and he comes off well-mothered, courteous and organized, a self-assurance that could lead him from dark turns in life. Stands to reason. The studious trombone-playing Catholic high and UA grad (acting with a business minor), magna cum laude on a Wildcat Academic Scholarship, is set to move to California with his actor girlfriend to perform anywhere and everywhere on stage and in film, during a crippling pandemic, with film and theater ecospheres shuttered, when about all his friends lost their jobs. Working on a more interesting life is a tall order for anyone lately, and he will have to find a day gig in Los Angeles before his saved $6,000 is spent. He is already logged in at temp agency and he’ll likely man a cubicle at a call center. The kid who began acting in 9th grade says he’ll dig ditches if he must. Anything but service work involving the public. That has so far been too life-threatening. “I’ll scrub toilets at Adult Swim just to say I worked there,” he cracks. ON THE EAST SIDE OF TUCSON, Marian is inside her well-kept three-bedroom rental, a vaguely Santa Fe-styled house in a community of identical ones situated in a lovely mesquite and creosote forest.

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Guy Norris is giving up grocery work to try his luck in Hollywood. “I’ll scrub toilets at Adult Swim just to say I worked there,” he says.

Marian’s trajectory is wildly different than Guy’s. While both hail from the grocery industry, the mother of two works at Whole Foods where she has moved up the ranks in prepared foods, is now a culinary team trainer. To say she is thankful for the employment and to Whole Foods would be an understatement. Even dealing with the threats of anti-maskers. It shows. Her home’s interior is carefully considered, sans the blandness of manufactured objects and portraits of suburban adulthood. It is a collection of artifacts to self and maternity and even horror films, equally droll and profound in celebrations of life, past and present and future. A human skeleton wears a bejeweled Tibetan headdress and occupies a high-placed windowsill over the dining table. One painting, a gray-blue bull head encircled by actual animal skulls, is her own, and it seems to embarrass her. “I used to paint,” she says. A hand-carved fish from some faroff land faces a metal whale, nods to transformation, rebirth. Hand-woven camel blankets cover things, a metal love-seat rocking chair fashioned from airplane parts invites sitters. A framed sketch shows a much younger Marian with her two children, keeps watch over the living room, and a Buddha holds peace on the outdoor terrace under a mesquite tree.

She sits on a bench behind her blond dining table she shipped over from Belgium, via Germany, years ago, where she lived with her now ex-husband, an Air Force fighter pilot. Hair pulled into a bun, a striped tank top, black ear spacers and colorful sleeve-tatted arms show winged and fire mythologies of her children’s namesakes, Gryphon and Phoenix. A punk-rock DIY rebellion aesthete shaped further by world religions, parental duties and motherhood. She’s created her own belief system, what punk rock was always supposed to teach. She watches a lizard seek shelter under the patio Buddha and laughs, “Tucson has not been easy.” She’s been here eight years, moved to co-parent with her ex-husband after their divorce 12 years ago. The chuckle produces tears, and she apologizes. MARIAN NEARLY DIED IN HER mother’s womb when the car flipped. Her dad, a ’Nam vet who did his second tour there because he didn’t want his brothers to go, was killed. ’Nam didn’t get him but the car accident in Seattle did. It started on an argument between the budding parents and ended when the seven-months-pregnant CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

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19-year-old girl yanked at the wheel. Dad manned Navy recon gunner boats, “like in Apocalypse Now,” the film Marian scrutinized over and over to get an approximation of a side of her father. She has few photos of her dad, taken when he was in ’Nam. When she was old enough to drive she got to know her father’s parents, bridging some deep family resentments, and, she says, “it was really good.” Marian, an only child, guesses her mother, who was physically and emotionally abusive, was never the same post-accident. They moved a lot, lived in poverty. “I don’t think she cared or considered, or wasn’t capable, to understand how her choices affected me. Her choices were bad, especially in men. One was a coke dealer who beat the crap out of her.” As if searching for a way to talk motherhood without ripping her own mother apart, she pauses, says, “I think I came out unscathed. My mother went through abusive shit herself growing up.” A self-mocking laugh erupts, and she adds, “Her side of the family is like a V.C. Andrews novel. I learned what not to do.”

She honed what-not-to-dos working as a nanny, before and after her children were born, “the positive redirecting that is so important.” In Tucson, she also worked with children at Jewish Community Center. She went years not talking to her mother, but did recently, and it was not easy, old resentments live hard. Her mom found AA, began running an antique operation and a trailer park somewhere in Arizona. Marian had moved away from mom at 16, Seattle to Salt Lake City, working odd jobs, and found family in the punk-rock scene there, a familiar story to many wayward kids with tragic backdrops. That’s where she met her husband. He soon made a career of the Air Force. Marian was in Germany and he was in Afghanistan, flying an A-10, air-to-ground support. She hushes, “I’ll never forget the time he called me the first time he killed somebody.” “Their dad is a good man,” she adds. “Co-parenting has not been easy but we do the best we can.” A post-divorce relationship several years ago ended in pain. And then she was raped. Here she gathers herself to work up nerve to tackle that subject, sips from her water and their cat Ella, who is splayed on the bench beside her, lets out a mild yelp, the

only sound she makes in my presence. Marian wipes wet from her eyes and visibly relaxes, as if the terrifying part of who she was has yielded to the far less-terrifying part of who she is now, a dark abyss crossed. The rape defined her life’s lowest ebb. A suicide attempt and a DUI ensued, what she labels her “dark period.” She got the DUI asleep in her parked car when she knew she was too drunk to drive and would’ve taken a cab home had she known the intricacies of the law. She went to jail, paid the DUI price. When she got hired at Whole Foods more than two and a half years ago—just after Amazon took ownership—her life began improving, with help from a trusted therapist. Children are not self-contained, or neat and organized like rattlesnakes. They roll with defiance. The punkrock mom hasn’t had the easiest time, her daughter is with her dad, and they are not speaking at the moment. Her 15-year-old son, who suffers severe ADHD, was bullied at school. That son steps into the kitchen, opens the refrigerator, disagrees with mom about how old he was when she took him to see the Dead Kennedys, a milestone in both their lives, and steps back into his bedroom empty handed. He seems painfully shy but is shockingly good-looking, like some animated archetype designed to swoon hearts. Marian talks about her daughter. She is 19 now, but the fret of parental concern can overwhelm, and mom is not excited at the prospect of her moving back to Tempe for school in fullon pandemic time. Other concerns too, of course. “We are going through a lot.” She comes off like a fierce mama bear who would do anything for the betterment of her kids, and has done work to keep things afloat she’d probably leave off a resume. If nothing else, she is emerging with certain wisdom: How one embraces human wounds and fragilities and pushes them into a love. How it is the only way to step forward. Marian has been known to grow tall too. On stilts, eight hours at a time. “I never thought I’d see myself on TV chanting in Japanese, stilt-walking in front of a huge crowd,” she laughs. “Or leading bagpipers in downtown

Tucson at Christmas, ten of us on stilts and a Santa Claus.” The “dark period” saw her gain unwanted weight, which makes the stilt-walking difficult, at the moment. She’ll be back up, a giant again. Before saying goodbye, she adds something she thinks about often after work: customers are lax with masks. “I’d hate to catch the virus and be sitting in a hospital bed and dying and not have spoken to my mom and daughter.” She recites the soothing Buddhist mantra, “Om Ma Ni Padme Hum,” and follows up with new instincts: “I’m just a happy, earth-loving pagan. Look, I’m healthy and employed, I feel blessed.” IF WHOLE FOODS PATRONS are easily cast in more permissive and left-leaning stereotypes, Safeway is more sundry. When the virus first hit, one employee in Guy’s store was carted off by ambulance after toilet-paper hoarders trampled her. In that Safeway employee room, Guy talks his acting, his schooling, his one sibling on a military path, his joy at leaving grocery work behind. And from professors and those with film experience, he listens intently, absorbs advice like a sponge. Whatever handicaps to self-belief he may harbor are outwardly non-existent. It is never easy being around one whose career conviction is so unwavering, whose ideas of structure within the walls of normality is so precise. He talks his supportive parents, his adoration of them, and his dad, a career military man, who at first was hardly keen on the acting, more interested in his kid’s career stability. That all changed when Guy was ready to bail for Hollywood at 18. His parents, who attended his various productions and shows in high school and college, will help his move by covering his phone bill and car insurance until he is on his feet. If nothing clicks in L.A., and after the positive COVID test Guy is adamant about eschewing food and drink service, the last thing he would do is phone up Hey Dad Productions for help. Guy’s own system hasn’t failed him yet, the entrances of his chosen field are breaking, as are all chosen fields for recent grads. He will be on his own, albeit with a dedicated partner with similar aspirations. ■

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Medical Marijuana

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Archaic tax code kills growth in cannabis industry, opens markets to foreign companies By David Abbott david@tucsonlocalmedia.com DOWNTOWN DISPENSARY OWNER Moe Asnani knows firsthand how the banking industry treats your local medical marijuana dispensary differently from other businesses, but says the real culprit hindering the cannabis industry is a tax code that puts the business at a disadvantage. After 15 years with Chase Bank, Asnani was summarily dropped from that financial institution when he went into the business in 2014. It did not have anything to do with Asnani personally, but was largely the

result of conflicting regulations between state and federal government, where on the federal side cannabis is a Schedule I narcotic on par with heroin. “As a federally regulated institution, we don’t provide banking services to businesses participating in federally prohibited activities,” said Maura Cordova, a spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase, in response to inquiries about Asnani’s abrupt expulsion from Chase. Asnani holds out hope that in the very near future, the stigma enveloping the industry will be gone once the federal government comes to its senses. “Hopefully, we’ll look back at this situation with nostalgia one day and think,

‘Were we really that stupid?’” he said. But according to Asnani, the real culprit holding back a booming industry is a single line in the U.S. tax code known as 280E, a Reagan-era response to the actions of a Florida cocaine dealer who tried to use business expenses as tax deductions in the early 1980s. Enacted at the outset of the “War on Drugs,” 280E does not allow “drug dealers” to deduct expenses, but the end result for the 21st century cannabis industry

increases the tax burden—some business owners pay 70 percent or more in effective tax rate—as well as the expense of hiring accountants and lawyers to find loopholes or fight the system. “We’re fighting this to the death, paying for the best attorneys and accountants,” Asnani said. “If [280E] was fully implemented, U.S. cannabis businesses would be decimated and not be viable entities.” The ramifications of 280E are extensive. CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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Legitimate businesses are being treated like illegal drug traffickers despite the state voter-mandated status of the drug. The industry is one of the most heavily regulated in the state despite its legal status. Dispensaries were not even allowed to pursue Paycheck Protection Program funds when the COVID outbreak took hold. Additionally, cannabis is being taxed multiple times, including a 6.6 percent sales tax, where pharmaceuticals are not, with the exception of Illinois and Louisiana. So the MMJ community is basically subsidizing the pharmaceutical industry, in Asnani’s view. “With the amount of money I’ve spent fighting 280E I could have hired 50 people for a year, not to mention other expenses like TEP, contractors and, of course, the Department of Revenue,” Asnani said. “The cannabis industry can’t show its full potential because of the bottleneck, and there’s never been a better time to make an economic argument [in favor of sensible cannabis laws]. It’s pragmatic and we can’t wait.”

Regardless of pragmatism, we still might have to wait, as enforcement and scrutiny of the MMJ business will likely increase in the wake of a March 30 Treasury Department report titled “The Growth of the Marijuana Industry Warrants Increased Tax Compliance Efforts and Additional Guidance.” Whether Arizona voters opt in favor of recreational cannabis in November and pass the Smart and Safe Initiative, there will continue to be an unfair marketplace for those in the cannabis industry until federal law is more reflective of the realities in a majority of states. Aari Ruben, owner of Bloom Dispensary in Tucson, points out that there is broad, bipartisan support nationwide for legalized weed, and even if there are changes on a federal level, that would not stop a state like Kansas from enacting its own ban on the plant and its derivatives. “The percentage of Americans, regardless of political affiliation, who agree that cannabis should be legal is around 68 percent, depending on which poll you look at, so there is large, widespread support,” he said. “The idea that we’re going to keep it out of peoples’ hands is unrealistic, at best…. The genie is out of the bottle and you can’t put it back in.” ■

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State judge blazes the legal challenge suggesting that recreational weed effort was misleading to Arizona voters. By Austin Counts austin@tucsonlocalmedia.com MARICOPA SUPERIOR COURT Judge James Smith ruled last week that Smart and Safe Arizona’s 100-word summary does not mislead voters as challenged by initiative’s opposition, Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy. The opposition took issue with several aspects of the effort, namely what they consider a lack of principal provisions in the initiative’s summary and including highly potent marijuana concentrates along with bud flower in their definition of marijuana. In his ruling, Judge Smith said Arizo-

nans for Responsible Drug Policy “did not supply evidence that the summary actually misled any electors.” “They did not provide survey data showing that potential electors would interpret the summary inconsistently with the initiative,” Judge Smith wrote. “Instead, their arguments turned on what hypothetical electors would want to know and how the summary deviated from those predicted desires.” Smith also noted that marijuana concentrates are already defined as marijuana under medical marijuana law, allowing every part of the plant to be used for medicinal purposes. The judge points out Smart and Safe Arizona essentially uses the same legal definition in their wording. “Electors are not likely to be confused that legalizing recreational marijuana will include resin extract when the medical marijuana law allows it,” Judge Smith wrote. Arizonans for Responsible Drug

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Policy Chair Lisa James said her group is disappointed with the judge’s decision and plans to appeal. They will have five days from when the decision was released to do so. “We’ve spoken with our attorney and feel very confident in moving on to the Supreme Court,” James said. “So yes, we will be appealing.” Should opponents lose their appeal, James said they still feel confident their

messaging will help sway voters their way in the upcoming election. “We plan to fight it all the way to the ballot and we expect that we’ll be successful,” James said. “Once Arizona voters find out what’s contained in (Smart and Safe Arizona’s) 17 pages, more than 10,000 words, they will be very concerned.” Polling has shown significant support in favor of the initiative. ■

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Motivational speaker Les Brown says his mission in life is to help people become uncomfortable with their mediocrity. That same mission is suitable for many of you Rams, as well. And I suspect you’ll be able to generate interesting fun and good mischief if you perform it in the coming weeks. Here’s a tip on how to make sure you do it well: Don’t use shame or derision as you motivate people to be uncomfortable with their mediocrity. A better approach is to be a shining example that inspires them to be as bright as you are. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus musician and visual artist Brian Eno has a practical, down-toearth attitude about making beautiful things, which he has done in abundance. He says that his goal is not to generate wonderful creations nonstop—that’s not possible—but rather to always be primed to do his best when inspiration strikes. In other words, it’s crucial to tirelessly hone his craft, to make sure his skills are constantly at peak capacity. I hope you’ve been approaching your own labors of love with that in mind, Taurus. If you have, you’re due for creative breakthroughs in the coming weeks. The diligent efforts you’ve invested in cultivating your talents are about to pay off. If, on the other hand, you’ve been a bit lazy about detail-oriented discipline, correct that problem now. There’s still time to get yourself in top shape. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Gemini musician Kanye West confesses the decadent and hedonist visions that fascinate and obsess him. Personally, I’m not entertained by the particular excesses he claims to indulge in; they’re generic and unoriginal and boring. But I bet that the beautiful dark twisted fantasies simmering in your imagination, Gemini, are more unique and intriguing. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to spend quality time in the coming weeks diving in and

exploring those visions in glorious detail. Get to know them better. Embellish them. Meditate on the feelings they invoke and the possibility that they have deeper spiritual meanings. (P.S. But don’t act them out, at least not now.) CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Make all your decisions based on how hilarious it would be if you did it,” advises Cancerian actor Aubrey Plaza. I wish it were that simple. How much more fun we might all have if the quest for amusement and laughter were among our main motivating principles. But no, I don’t recommend that you always determine your course of action by what moves will generate the most entertainment and mirth. Having said that, though, I do suspect the next few weeks may in fact be a good time to experiment with using Plaza’s formula. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the dictionary, the first definition of “magic” is “the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand and deceptive devices.” A far more interesting definition, which is my slight adjustment of an idea by occultist Aleister Crowley, doesn’t appear in most dictionaries. Here it is: “Magic is the science and art of causing practical changes to occur in accordance with your will—under the rigorous guidance of love.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the latter definition could and should be your specialty during the next four weeks. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The soul, like the moon, is new, and always new again,” wrote 14th-century mystic poet Lalleswari. I will amend her poetic formulation, however. The fact is that the soul, unlike the moon, is always new in different ways; it doesn’t have a predictable pattern of changing as the moon does. That’s what makes the soul so mysterious and uncanny. No matter how devotedly we

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I’m a 38-year-old bi woman who has been sleeping with a married male coworker for the last eight months. We’re a walking cliché: I’m a nurse, he’s a doctor, and one night he ended up spilling a lot of personal information about his marriage to me (sexless, non-romantic, she might be a lesbian) before asking if he could kiss me. I declined. Three months and many text messages later, I met him for drinks. The next thing I know we are falling in love and spending as much time together as we can manage. Even though he is married and has kids, this has been one of the best relationships of my adult life. He loves me in ways I never thought possible.

(He even savors my COVID-19 curves.) The obvious problem here is that he is married and his wife allegedly doesn’t know about his unhappiness in their marriage. We have to arrange our dates around his work schedule and his lies to his wife. I find myself becoming increasingly jealous of the time he spends with his wife and his inability to spend more time with me. I want him to confront the issues in his marriage and I want him to at least attempt being honest with her so we can figure out if it’s even possible for us to move forward. My question is this: How do I have this conversation with him without it

revere the soul, no matter how tenderly we study the soul, it’s always beyond our grasp. It’s forever leading us into unknown realms that teem with new challenges and delights. I invite you to honor and celebrate these truths in the coming weeks, Virgo. It’s time to exult in the shiny dark riddles of your soul. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised,” writes Libran author Diane Ackerman. I advise you to foster that talent, too, in the weeks ahead. If you’re feeling brave, go even further. Make yourself as curious as possible. Deepen your aptitude for amazements and epiphanies. Cultivate an appreciation for revelations and blessings that arrive from outside your expectations. To the degree that you do these things, the wonderments that come your way will tend to be enlivening and catalytic; unpredictability will be fun and educational. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Author and theologian Frederick Buechner writes, “If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, we must see not just their faces but also the life behind and within their faces.” The coming weeks will be prime time for you to heed Buechner’s advice, Scorpio. You’re in a phase when you’ll have extra power to understand and empathize with others. Taking full advantage of that potential will serve your selfish aims in profound ways, some of which you can’t imagine yet. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Refine your rapture,” advised occultist Aleister Crowley. Now is an excellent time to take that advice. How might you go about doing it? Well, you could have a long conversation with your deep psyche—and see if you can plumb hidden secrets about what gives it sublime pleasure. You could seek out new ways to experience euphoria and enchantment—with an emphasis on ways that also make you smarter and healthier. You might also take inventory of your current repertoire of bliss-inducing strategies—and cultivate an enhanced capacity to get the most out of them.

seeming like an ultimatum? I adore him and I don’t think he’s lying to me about his marriage. But I long to have more freedom in our relationship. I love that I finally found someone who treats me so well when we are together but my heart is breaking because our love exists in the shadows. It’s a win/win for him—he gets his marriage, his kids, his “real life,” and me too. But I can’t even text or even call him freely and I certainly couldn’t rely on him in an emergency. I want this to work. I don’t necessarily want him to get divorced, Dan, as I fear it would cause him to resent me, but that would honestly be my preference. What should I do? —Outside The Home Exists Romance What are you willing to settle for, OTHER?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are you ready to make the transition from slow, deep, subtle, and dark to fast, high, splashy, and bright? Are you interested in shifting your focus from behindthe-scenes to right up front and totally out in the open? Would it be fun and meaningful for you to leave behind the stealthy, smoldering mysteries and turn your attention to the sweet, blazing truths? All these changes can be yours—and more. To get the action started, jump up toward the sky three times, clicking your heels together during each mid-leap. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Greenland is a mostly autonomous territory within the nation of Denmark. In 2019, US President Donald Trump announced that his government was interested in buying the massive island, describing it as “a large real estate deal” that would add considerable strategic value to his country. A satirical story in The New Yorker subsequently claimed that Denmark responded with a counter-offer, saying it wasn’t interested in the deal, but “would be interested in purchasing the United States in its entirety, with the exception of its government.” I offer this as an example for you to be inspired by. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to flip the script, turn the tables, reverse the roles, transpose the narrative, and switch the rules of the game. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Doris Lessing told us, “It is our stories that will recreate us.” Whenever we’re hurt or confused or demoralized, she suggested, we need to call on the imagination to conjure up a new tale for ourselves. “It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix,” she believed. The fresh narratives we choose to reinvent ourselves may emerge from our own dreams, meditations, or fantasies. Or they might flow our way from a beloved movie or song or book. I suspect you’re ready for this quest, Pisces. Create a new saga for yourself. ■ Homework: What is a blessing you can realistically believe life might bestow on you in the coming months? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

If you can’t live without Dr. Married and you can only have him on his terms— terms he set at the start, terms designed to keep his wife in the dark—then you’ll have to accept his terms. You can only see Dr. Married during office hours, you can’t call or text him, and you’re on your own if you have an emergency outside office hours. But agreeing to his terms at the outset doesn’t obligate you to stick to his terms forever. Terms can be renegotiated. But unless you’re willing to issue an ultimatum, OTHER, Dr. Married has no incentive to renegotiate the terms of your relationship. Zooming out for a second: I get letters all the time from women who ask me how issue to an ultimatum without seeming like they’re issuing an ultimatum. I don’t get many letters from men

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like that for good and not-so-good reasons: men are socialized to feel entitled to what they want, men are praised when they ask for what they want, and consequently men are likelier to get what they want. To get what you want, OTHER, you’re gonna have to man up: feel entitled, act entitled, make demands. And you gotta be willing to walk. You have to go in fully prepared to use the leverage you actually have here—your presence in Dr. Married’s life—or nothing will change. His circumstances have required you to live in the shadows if you wanted to see him and maybe that worked for you once. But it doesn’t work for anymore and Dr. Married needs to understand that if his circumstances don’t change— if he doesn’t change them—then he’s going to lose you. There’s a middle ground between divorce, your preferred circumstance, and things staying exactly as they are. Dr. Married’s wife is surely aware that her marriage is sexless and non-romantic—assuming he’s told you the truth— and if his wife’s actually a lesbian, well, perhaps she’d like the freedom to date other women too. (Or date them openly, I should say; for all we know she’s been getting some pussy on the side herself.) If they want to stay together for the kids, if they have a constructive, functional, low-conflict loving partnership, and it would be possible to daylight you without anyone having to get divorced, maybe you could settle for those terms. I’m a bi man in a straight marriage. We have two young children. My wife and I have been working through some relationship issues. Because of these, she has not been open to sex with me and for eighteen months our marriage has been essentially sexless. I’m not happy with this, but we are working on things. Since we stopped having sex, I have been using my wife’s used panties to masturbate. I work from home and do a lot of the household work, including laundry. Every couple of weeks, I will take a couple of her panties from the laundry. I rub myself with one pair and sniff the other one. I enjoy the way the fabric feels and am turned on by knowing that they’ve been rubbing up against her pussy. It makes me feel very close to her. I finish by ejaculating into her panties and then I rinse them out and wash them. I’m very careful not to stain or damage them. This is something I do to feel more connected

with her sexually. I don’t get hard thinking that she’s wearing panties I came in; I get hard thinking about coming in panties she’s worn. But I worry that I’m violating her—which is not something I want to do. I know that if I were doing this with a stranger’s panties, or with the panties of someone I knew but was not in an intimate relationship with, it would be at best creepy and at worst a sex crime. But she’s my wife, and although we are in a hard place right now, we’re trying to find our way back to each other. So, is this an acceptable way for me to get off while we work on our relationship? Or is it a violation? —Wonders About Nuzzling Knickers I’m torn, WANK. If you and the wife were fucking, WANK, she might enjoy knowing that, however many years and two kids later, you’re still so crazy about her that you’re down in the laundry room perving on her dirty panties. But you aren’t fucking and things are strained for reasons you didn’t share. So you need to ask yourself whether this perving, if your wife were to find out about it, would set you two back. If you think it would—if, say, your wife isn’t fucking you because she feels like you don’t respect her opinions, her boundaries, her autonomy, etc.—then the risk (further damaging your marriage) has to outweigh the rewards (momentarily draining your sack.) That said, WANK, if perving on your wife’s panties—without damaging or staining them—is helping you remain faithful during this sexless period of your marriage… and sustaining your attraction to your wife through this difficult time… well, an argument/rationalization could be made that your wife benefits from this perving. And these aren’t stolen panties—these aren’t a stranger’s panties or a roommate’s panties—these are panties your wife hands over to you for laundering. That you derive a moment’s pleasure from them on their way from laundry basket to washing machine could be self-servingly filed, I guess, under “what she doesn’t know won’t hurt her.” But if you feel like your wife would regard this as a violation—and I’m guessing you feel that way, WANK, since you’re asking me about it and not her—then you might wanna knock it off. Quick question: Why get married? I’m a 29-year-old lesbian who got married to

a woman at 26 and divorced at 28. We had a pretty low-key wedding, but we still stated to all of our friends and family that we were in it for the long haul, people wished us well, bought us gifts, gave us money. When I realized it was a huge mistake (we rushed into it, we ignoredhuge incompatibilities) I felt terrible for all the usual reasons involved a break up, Dan, but I also felt like we were letting down our friends, family, and all gays everywhere. I’m jaded right now, I realize, but seriously: WHY DO THIS? Why get married? Why do this thing that adds so much stress and pressure to leaving a relationship that might have run its course, as MOST relationships eventually do? —Marriage-Averse Dyke Quick answer, MAD: People get married for love—ideally, at least these days, and it was not always thus. (Suggested reading: Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage, by Stephanie Coontz.) But sometimes I think people marry for the same reasons you think no one should, MAD: the stress of ending a marriage—the pressure to stay in a marriage—often prompts a couple to work through a rough patch. Of course that pressure can keep two people together

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who really shouldn’t be together anymore—or never should’ve been together, MAD, like you and your ex-wife—but sometimes two people stick it out to avoid the embarrassment, expense, and drama of divorce and eventually get to a place where they’re genuinely happy to still be together. Maybe a wedding isn’t a promise that two people will stay together forever, MAD, but rather a promise that two people will have to think long and hard before parting. ■ mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage On the Lovecast, it’s Millennial vs Boomer with Jill Filipovic. savagelovecast.com

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e are an open and affirming Christian community, called to Seek God, Love like Jesus, and Serve the World.

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