Legalization: What Was Colorado Thinking?!

Legalization: What was Colorado thinking?!

Filed under: Colorado Drug Abuse

Currently, Colorado is trying to pass a Proposition that would allow the government to collect taxes from marijuana sales and use that for rehabilitation and programs to help addicts. Doesn't this put Colorado back to square one? Enabling one's …
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Even if bill fails, pot fight will continue

Filed under: Colorado Drug Abuse

The push for decriminalization follows Colorado and Washington ballot initiatives, approved in 2012, to legalize possession of up to one ounce of marijuana for recreational use. Vaillancourt is encouraged by the federal government response — that it …
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Changing our approach on drugs

Filed under: Colorado Drug Abuse

And we have so much left over that we can take drugs, and then still have truckloads left over when we're done. Since the Drug Enforcement Administration started their … In Colorado alone, the October event received 18,500 pounds of prescription …
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Area Law Enforcement to Participate in Drug Take Back Day

Filed under: Colorado Drug Abuse

The Colorado Springs Police Department has announced that it will be participating, along with the El Paso County Sheriff's Department and the Drug Enforcement Agency, in the National Drug Take Back program on October 26, from 10 AM to 2 PM. On that …
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