The Colorado Warning

1.       Colorado Governor – “We are not making any extra revenue from this [legal MARIJUANA]…we’ve spent millions and millions of dollars and we still haven’t gotten [people] to realize you’re taking some serious risk [when consuming marijuana], certainly as a teenager, when your brain is still growing so rapidly.” John Hickenlooper, Governor of Colorado (Oct 2015) [link to video clip this quote is taken from]

2.       Past Colorado governor and Denver Mayor – Link to their message against Prop 205 in Arizona, which also ran in the 2016 election

3.       Denver DA – [link to his letter to California]

4.       Police Sergeant - James (Jim) Gerhardt, Thorton Police Department & Colorado Drug Investigators Association [link to his YouTube from Santa Clara County CNOA conference in September 2016]

5.       Colorado educators have reported in both Colorado’s main newspapers (The Denver Post and Colorado Gazette) that marijuana has become the number one issue facing Colorado public schools [link to these articles].

6.       Colorado Superintendent, Dr. Harry Bull, Cherry Creek School Superintendent (Colorado’s largest school district) stated, “So far, the only thing that the legalization of marijuana has brought to our schools has been marijuana.”  - in August 23, 2016 newsletter (link to letter)

7.       Colorado moms describe the impossibility of fighting commercialization as well as teens that are convinced marijuana is good for them because it’s legal, and how they wish they had never moved to Colorado (“Falsehoods” document – Protect kids section - attached). 

8.       Colorado High School Student – Harrison Chamberlain – describes what has happened to his friends since legalization http://smartcolorado.org/community-voices/ (2:57)

Many in California understood the risks as well - they just didn’t get any media coverage

9.       Young film-makers in So Cal – who totally understand what the proliferation of edibles means to them and their friends  https://youtu.be/AkB3iuCkl1E (1:50)

10.   African American Leaders in California – asked voters not to do this to communities of color.  See Bishop Ron Allen speak  https://youtu.be/GZSacmdncFc