{"id":11327,"date":"2015-10-01T13:54:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=11327"},"modified":"2017-10-18T11:01:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T11:01:37","slug":"report-marijuana-commercialization-failing-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2015\/10\/report-marijuana-commercialization-failing-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: MARIJUANA COMMERCIALIZATION FAILING IN COLORADO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA) report shows significant increases in traffic fatalities, child poison control exposures, hospitalizations, youth use, amongst other alarming data, detailing how Colorado’s experiment with retail marijuana regulation is a public health and safety failure.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

DENVER, CO – The Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA) has released its updated report, The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado, The Impact, Volume 3,<\/i><\/a>which outlines the most alarming data to date, demonstrating how Colorado marijuana legalization policies have harmed public safety and health.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Highlights from the report show serious changes since 2014, when retail marijuana businesses began operating in Colorado, including:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Traffic deaths:\u00a0<\/b> A 32 percent increase in marijuana-related traffic deaths in just one year from 2013<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Driving under the influence:\u00a0<\/b> Toxicology reports with positive marijuana results of active THC for primarily driving under the influence have increased 45 percent<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Marijuana use by children:<\/b>\u00a0 Colorado youth usage (ages 12 to 17) ranks 56 percent higher than the national average<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ER visits:<\/b>\u00a0 A 29 percent increase in the number of marijuana-related emergency room visits<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hospitalizations:\u00a0<\/b> A 38 percent increase in the number of marijuana-related hospitalizations<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Poison control:<\/b> Marijuana-only related exposures increased 72 percent in only one year<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0More marijuana trafficking:<\/b> The yearly average interdiction seizures of Colorado marijuana increased another 34 percent<\/span><\/p>\n

“This report serves as a wake-up call for all Coloradans,” said Bob Doyle, chair of Colorado SAM. “It is time to stop yielding to Big Marijuana special interests and put health and safety ahead of marijuana commercialization.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“For too long, the marijuana industry has been telling Americans that ‘everything’s fine’ in Colorado. This data-driven report tells a very different story,” said Kevin Sabet, President of SAM and an assistant professor at the University of Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jo McGuire, co-chair of Colorado SAM added, “We are prepared to engage Colorado community members in conversations that will send strong messages to our state leaders that these outcomes are unacceptable and legalization clearly does not work.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In August 2015, poll results showed <\/a>that popularity for marijuana legalization amongst Coloradans is losing support over concerns of traffic problems, youth usage, child exposures and the proliferation of edible products.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Press Release 15<\/b>th<\/sup><\/b> September 2015 www.learnaboutsam.org<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA) report shows significant increases in traffic fatalities, child poison control exposures, hospitalizations, youth use, amongst other alarming data, detailing how Colorado’s experiment with retail marijuana regulation is a public health and safety failure. DENVER, CO – The Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA) has released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-drug-legalisation-efforts","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}