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Due to the Governor's restrictions on large gatherings for the state that were announced, Weekly Alibi has decided to RESCHEDULED postpone the New Mexico Cannabis Expo scheduled for April 4th, 2020. May 16, 2020 The new date of the event will be Santa Fe Community Convention Center Saturday, May 16, at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. Stay tuned for more details as we get closer to that date. Thank you all for supporting the event, and we look forward to seeing you in May. STAY SAFE! -Weekly Alibi Staff APRIL 2020 CANNABIS MANUAL [3] To All Our Friends, Past, Present and Future Your support means the world to us by Dan Pennington ou might have seen a couple of compensated for the work they do. Our much of the content I consumed the ads bouncing around in our writers, our production staff, our web growing up. 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Michelle Gonzales-Shiver Brent Morris Mi Vida Yoga Ryker Conrad Gagne George Ian Thomas Doug and Candace Schryver Emma Lewis Ann Lefschitz Angie Drobnic Holan APRIL 2020 CANNABIS MANUAL [5] Weekly Alibi’s Cannabis Manual Love in the Time of VOLUME 4 | ISSUE 02 | APRIL 2020 EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR/ FILM EDITOR: Devin D. O’Leary (ext. 230) [email protected] Coronavirus MUSIC EDITOR/NEWS EDITOR: August March (ext. 245) [email protected] by Joshua Lee COPY EDITOR: Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] thought I was so clever when I made distancing orders. According to those who STAFF WRITER: that title. Turns out, every hipster this attended, no one showed signs of being Joshua Lee (ext. 243) [email protected] I side of the Mississippi has already ill. But more importantly: No one made it twice. I’m always late to the party. remembers hearing any coughs or PRODUCTION It’s turned into a ghost town out there, sneezes. ART DIRECTOR: Ramona Chavez (ext. 268) [email protected] and you’ve likely gone to ground avoiding According to the Los Angeles Times, this ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: contact with the infected hordes. The case and others have alerted health Corey Yazzie [email protected] good news is you still have access to officials to the possibility that COVID-19 GRAPHIC DESIGNER: cannabis and there seems to be no can be transmitted through aerosols. The Xanthe Miller [email protected] shortage in sight. World Health Organization has admitted STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: Luckily, New Mexicans have been smart that aerosols—particles smaller than five Eric Williams [email protected] enough not to lose their minds and blow micrometers—play a part in spreading SALES out the state’s marijuana supply. If only the virus, but are quick to point out that SALES DIRECTOR: the toilet paper hoarders were as “in an analysis of 75,465 COVID-19 cases Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] conscientious as the weed smokers. But in China, airborne transmission was not ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: COVID-19 is still changing the way we reported.” They’ve been focusing on Kittie Blackwell (ext. 224) [email protected] consume cannabis. transmission through “respiratory John Hankinson (ext. 235) [email protected] For those of us who are used to at least droplets,” which are produced through EVENT AND MARKETING COORDINATOR Madeline MacKenzie [email protected] hanging out with fellow patients in close coughs and sneezes. quarters to share company as we smoke: The possibility of transmission through ADMINISTRATION Rolling Stone recommends using social aerosol makes this a completely different PUBLISHER: media and telecommunication apps to battle. A study published last month in Constance Moss (ext. 222) [email protected] stay connected while maintaining a safe The New England Journal of Medicine found ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: distance, instead. that COVID-19 remained infectious for Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] OWNERS: And if you’re used to going into a three hours when dispensed as an aerosol. Christopher Johnson and Daniel Scott dispensary and jawing the ’tender’s ear off While this was in strict lab conditions, and being all social and friendly, you’re in imagine the conditions of a small CIRCULATION for some changes. dispensary lobby cut off from the fresh air CIRCULATION MANAGER: As of this writing, most dispensaries in coming in at the front door. These places Chris Silva (ext. 252) [email protected] Albuquerque are continuing to operate were designed to trap the delicious aroma CIRCULATION SPECIAL FORCES: Darrell Sparks [email protected] normally—although nearly all of them are of cannabis in a small space. At this encouraging patients to call in their moment, that also means they were INFORMATION orders before visiting and to take designed to trap the virus, too. PRINTER: advantage of curbside service to practice The number of COVID-19 cases in The Santa Fe New Mexican social distancing. Near the end of March, New Mexico are a drop in the bucket INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER: the Medical Cannabis Program Director compared to the numbers coming out of Southwest Cyberport (232-7992) [email protected] NATIONAL ADVERTISING: Dr. Dominick Zurlo reportedly wrote a places like New York and New Jersey.