{"id":15506,"date":"2019-07-02T19:08:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T19:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=15506"},"modified":"2020-01-20T20:08:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T20:08:28","slug":"lets-take-a-second-to-talk-about-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2019\/07\/lets-take-a-second-to-talk-about-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Take A Second To Talk About Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Friend,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Let’s take a second to talk about Colorado.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As you know, Colorado was the first state to commercialize the marijuana industry – and today it stands as the top state in the country for first-time youth marijuana use. The state also suffers from record stoned driving crashes, increased workplace drug positives, and unprecedented levels of opioid deaths<\/u>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The pot industry has taken Colorado hostage<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A few days ago, Colorado Governor Jared Polis announced he had appointed Ean Seeb<\/strong>\u00a0to serve as the state’s new “Special Adviser on Cannabis.” From this position, he will help guide Governor Polis’ position on bills as they move through the legislature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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An example of one such bill is presumably HB 1230 – a bill that would exempt bars, restaurants, and other public places from the Clean Air Indoor Act<\/strong>\u00a0and allow marijuana use indoors<\/u>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What is so concerning about this appointment?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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You see, Mr. Seeb has been profiting from marijuana for more than a decade. He is a two-time chair of the National Cannabis Industry Association, a former co-owner of Denver Relief dispensary and Denver Relief Consulting. He has lobbied in the past in support of pot deliveries, loosening restrictions on investments into then industry, and social consumption – better known as pot bars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Colorado Springs Gazette stated that this is “like the Marlboro Man monitoring cigarette sales<\/u>.”\u00a0I couldn’t agree more.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The fact is, in the short years since it was implemented, legalization in Colorado has been a disaster. Traffic deaths from marijuana-impaired driving have skyrocketed. Emergency room visits from high potency marijuana are through the roof. There has been a 400% increase in exposure of children less than nine years old to the drug.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The overwhelming majority of pot shops are located in minority and low-income communities and they are recommending highly potent pot to pregnant mothers. Criminal gangs and foreign cartels are setting up shop in housing developments and on public land to grow illegal marijuana next to legal grows and law enforcement is being stretched to its limits to combat the thriving black market.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And now Governor Polis chooses to put an industry lackey in an oversight position to regulate the industry<\/u>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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SAM and our Colorado affiliate, the Marijuana Accountability Coalition<\/strong>\u00a0(MAC), are working tirelessly to combat the industry as it moves to oppose any form of regulation it once favored being imposed on it. We have begun an awareness campaign by covering Denver with billboards pointing out the failures of the marijuana industry in Colorado to help convince Coloradans and Governor Polis to wake up and take action.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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You can help take action, too. Click here to send an email to your member of Congress<\/b><\/a>\u00a0telling them to oppose legalization of marijuana at the federal level and prevent the spread of this addiction-for-profit industry nationwide. Once you have done that,\u00a0click here to chip in with a tax-deductible gift to help SAM<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>continue educating lawmakers and the public on the failures of marijuana legalization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The industry is strong and deceptive, but together, we can push back,beat them at their own game<\/a><\/strong>, and save lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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All the best,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Kevin Sabet, PhD<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Email from SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana) <reply@learnaboutsam.org> May 2019<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend,\u00a0 Let’s take a second to talk about Colorado.\u00a0 As you know, Colorado was the first state to commercialize the marijuana industry – and today it stands as the top state in the country for first-time youth marijuana use. The state also suffers from record stoned driving crashes, increased workplace drug positives, and unprecedented […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,82,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-economic","category-global-drug-legalisation-efforts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15506","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}