Roundhouse Roundup: A Tale of Pot, Politics and Drinking Games

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Thanks to Public Regulation Commissioner E. Shirley Baca getting arrested on charges of marijuana possession at Albuquerque International Sunport earlier this month, marijuana is once again a hot topic around the halls of state government. There hasn't been this much chatter about pot here since Gary Johnson was governor.

Johnson, who was in office from 1995 to the end of 2002, became a national voice for reforming drug laws, though his advocacy undoubtedly hurt his relationship with many of his fellow Republicans and didn't win many Democratic friends in the Legislature.

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Roundhouse Roundup: A Tale of Pot, Politics and Drinking Games

In case you've been on another planet for the past couple of weeks, Baca's arrest touched off an uproar.

A majority of her fellow PRC members asked her to resign. Both Gov. Bill Richardson and state Democratic chai...

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