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A As you’re leafing through this edition of InMaricopa , you might notice we rolled this paper full of stories that bear a consistent theme. It was a joint effort among our reporters to weed out the nonsense and smoke out a good scoop. Take a trip through stories about magic shrooms and marijuana — and you’ll see they’re no puff pieces. Our local senator goes against some Meanwhile, a local no-boys-allowed book club finds solace and sisterhood in its novel take on getting high as city planners prepare to bring the first-ever marijuana dispensary inside city limits. Speaking of pot, Pinal County Sheriff’s Deputy Frank Sloup, world-renowned for his “Fridays with Frank” web-series and its 300 million views, has a bit of a pro-pot streak going. I’ll bet you recognize his grinning mug on the cover from YouTube, or TikTok, or the side of some road around Maricopa. (If it’s the last one, I’m sorry.) of his best buds in the Republican Party in his effort to legalize trippy mushrooms for veterans and other traumatized people in Maricopa and beyond. Rolling Stoned
Managing Editor ELIAS WEISS
Advertising Director VINCENT MANFREDI
They say not to meet your heroes, but let me tell you — this guy is one cool cop. He doesn’t smoke the stuff, but his chill attitude and beloved pothead sister led him to admit to me he might nibble the
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head off a pot gummy bear after he retires. Until then, he’ll settle for being the internet’s most famous traffic cop. Personally, I don’t partake, either. But if a hit of the blunt hits you like a cold can of Blue Moon hits me, I say more power to ya. At the end of the day, no matter what you choose to partake in, I hope you’ll continue to partake in this magazine when
Writers ANGELA ASKEY ALICE BATSCHE JEFF CHEW KRISTINA DONNAY JUSTIN GRIFFIN RICK HORST DAYV MORGAN BRIAN PETERSHEIM JR. TOM SCHUMAN MONICA D. SPENCER SHERMAN AND EUPHEMIA WEEKES
it finds its way to your mailbox every month. Enjoy your April, folks, and I may see you again next time around.
Photographers JEFF CHEW BRYAN MORDT BRIAN PETERSHEIM JR.
ELIAS WEISS MANAGING EDITOR
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TOM SCHUMAN Tom tracks down a woman who helped give mothers the right to work.
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