Leaf Brief Podcast

As readers probably already know by now, cannabis smoking lounges are not allowed in Santa Fe city limits . As SFR previously reported, anything resembling a cannabis friendly lounge in the city, is just that: A place to hang after you’ve partaken, not during. A couple of businesses that had originally planned on opening their doors to jokers, smokers and mid-day tokers are now pivoting to event s...

Anyone reading this who doesn’t at least recognize the name Dave Matthews is probably fresh out of their cave for the first time in three decades. But you’re excused from knowing the name Brian Monk, even though he had a somewhat indirect part in launching the now iconic Dave Matthews Band’s career. Monk was one-third of the Boyd Tinsley Trio when the band took Matthews and his crew out on tour, b...

Weed lounges, or the more dry term "consumption areas," are really a thing in New Mexico, thanks to the Cannabis Regulation Act passed in 2021. Lounges where you can legally puff in public have not taken off as quickly or become as prolific as dispensaries, but one retail spot down in Albuquerque figured out a twist on chillaxing with your favorite strain. Nia Harris, owner of Herban Oas...

Looking to grow your own? It’s the time and the season to start thinking about how and when to get cannabis seeds or clones in the ground. Some Santa Feans have years of experience with growing the green at home, but now that it’s 100% legal for adults do so, conversations about the specifics can be more frank and open. Internet research might be fine for many, but Urban Rebel Farms owners Jerome...

Do you sit down with your kids and explain to them that mommy and daddy like a smoke shesh before bed? If so, when do you have that conversation? Do you skip the conversation all together and hide it from your kids like you did with your parents at some point in your life? Leah Maurer , who has a wild story about being a cannabis-growing parent when it was very illegal, says it all depends. Hear f...

We’ve all heard heartfelt stories about family coalescing and diving head first into a new business venture. Southside Santa Fe dispensary Endo has an origin story that checks many of the standard boxes and then some. Staff writer and Leaf Brief Podcast host Andy Lyman takes us to Endo for Episode 2 and hears from father and son Ian and Stephan Aarons about the genesis of their nearly year-old com...

Explore New Mexico’s cannabis landscape with Andy Lyman. This month, hear from Mateo Frazier, who knows a lot about a lot, but about water systems and cannabis in particular. He lives just outside Española, where he’s in the process of launching a cannabis company soon. And, he serves on his local acequia board, giving him a unique perspective on the state’s newest industry and its most precious r...

Andy Lyman brings his award-winning cannabis journalism to the Santa Fe Reporter's newest podcast. The first episode drops in January 2023!