By ZHEN HUANG
Los Alamos

While we discuss whether we should have a retail store of recreational cannabis in Los Alamos, here is a BBC report I recommend for us Los Alamos citizens to read.

Some of the questions to ask ourselves include:

• Does cannabis business create decent jobs for those less fortunate people? 
• Who would be most interested in and also benefited from a boom of the cannabis  business? 
• Is the cannabis business welcomed by our indigenous neighbors? 
• Why has cannabis business caused tense confrontations among the Navajo residents? 
• Can cannabis businesses help to solve the poverty problem of our indigenous neighbors? 
• Can developing cannabis businesses improve New Mexico’s economy? 
• Why did the Navajo man Benally want to introduce cannabis business to their sacred land in the first place? 
• What does it mean to us when the Navajo woman Redfeather said, “Corn is a sacred plant”, “You can’t eat hemp and marijuana?” 

BBC Report: Chinese dreams on Native American land: A tale of cannabis boom and bust https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56835897.amp.