money turned 18, he was able to very easily get a, a medical card and then he was able to legally purchase, possess, and consume very high th c products that led to the psychosis. you know, he ultimately died as a result of the psychosis brought on by high to see marijuana. and i believe that if you'd never consumed marijuana that he'd still be here today. oh, i am connie boy, and i live in denver, colorado. my son was diagnosed his kit to tanya, specifically from cannabis. 4 years ago, careless and a gifted program through elementary and middle school. and he was doing great and

is introduced to marijuana his sophomore year or this summer over his sophomore year. and tom, he failed every classes, sophomore year, 1st person was an african exchange student li by somebody who was studying in whiskey in wyoming, and came to denver to use marijuana with his france. he was 19, he ate a marijuana edible, and had a psychotic episode. jumped office, adopt balcony, and died. we get started for you or another person, aiden edible, that didn't do anything for him aid. another one ended up killing this off. you know, when, when you use these edibles, did not like smoky, doesn't affect you immediately. it maybe takes 1520 minutes, and so maybe you've eaten 3 of them. and then all the sudden you get the burst of the high. and for many people it's too much to bear. yes. so you're in that canyon cultivation are my distributing kitchen, and we're going to go in and see what everybody's doing as far as back all of our

candy and are compliant packaging or with. so this is where we are putting all of our integrals into the child. proof re close val containers added and i was your head for here. yeah. we make everything right hands. and about 3 and a half years ago, we started playing with old fashion candy recipes. i also feared about the marijuana edible, that when my kids get in school than other kids, my brings them to school and not even realize that they are a mirror, one animal, and then operate my kids. or when they go to their friends houses. if those parents have them around when my kids don't worry about that. my name is ken fanning, i'm a pain management physician in colorado springs. i've been practicing here for nearly 27 years now. are you seeing you currently the president of the american

board of pain medicine? so i've learned quite a bit in this journey i've been speaking publicly nationally and internationally on this issue for over a decade. as i think we are really having a problem with expanding marijuana programs and the impact on the o period epidemic is not helping. and i think it does become simply another addiction for profit industry, also backs of youth because they want lifelong customers. so this is really a public health and safety concern from my perspective, show johnny's room. okay. up here with we had this blanket made out of his favorite t shirts. was very addicted. he just couldn't stop. he tried to tried so hard. one time he stopped for 4 months and he was ashton

south, happy, ready to try again to go to school and went right back to the dads, bag, crowd pin and the psychosis started. he couldn't stop. he was so addicted to the marijuana and he knew it hurt him. he knew he just couldn't stop. my name is gregory b, i'm a recovering addict. i'm a member of narcotics anonymous that you have people in treatment for just marijuana and canada all day long. it's an addition, they actually have mood disorders, have develop move disorder. a lot of shit going in and you know, to me, when you say go your people smoke marijuana now and 5 percent of them are marijuana. it day. you eyes, marijuana, and julia,

people smoke marijuana. now will it be more than 5? you know, it would be 20 percent because a percentage of the people who were smoking before really couldn't get it as easily as they can. now i have worked for over 20 years now in this community as the substance abuse counselor. and i have worked with people, you know, all the way, all the way to a very extreme, like extreme situations with addiction, substance use really hard drug use. and that was still at the time when people thought marijuana is not addictive. and i've worked with people who could quit methamphetamine use heroin use, crack cocaine, and they could not, with marijuana people like i would say at least 80 percent how at least friday. i wanna, i would say it's a very small fraction of people who have never smoked weed and never want to right

now, living in boulder. kids want to smoke. kids want to get high because it's normalized . everybody does it so i can i and i feel like i mentality is what so scary months with leading people to these awful addictions. but they don't even realize are addictions. i mean, i can tell you, i was one of those people that i would sob. and cry and scream, and yell and slam doors and break things. when i wouldn't get my wheat. i used to, i had my ex boyfriend for a while by me eat, cuz he was over age and there would be days where he'd be like hey, i couldn't afford the dogs that you wanted. they were too expensive and i would just break down in his house sobbing, freaking out. i didn't have dobs. and so i felt like my life was over. and frankly, there were times where i was suicidal because i couldn't get my hands on. what made

me happy? i would say they started out with like, oh it's just weed at that. it was oh, it's just trims and then it was, oh it's just co and. ready then it was, oh it's just hell. oh i'm just going to do it one. yeah. and then it's, oh i'm just going to try this. why said that never do it again and then it's like, oh i only use it once a day. oh, i only use it twice a day and everything just seems more and more reasonable. the more that you do it. exactly. and you surround yourself with people who are encouraging you to do it and not to stop. and everything just gets really bad really fast. and i'm worried that's going to happen to more people. and it's interesting because there's such a link and this is kind of where my wheelhouse comes in, is a very strong link between canal benoit's in opioids. the number one risk factor for adolescent opium misuse is ever having used marijuana lifetime use of marijuana . and the number one predictor of opiate use disorder and an adult is ever having

use marijuana before the age of 18. so the link between cannabis and opiates is very strong. the national survey drug use in health, heroin users don't start with hair when they usually start with booze and pot gateway drug and people will argue with me. but i cannot see the data this proves me wrong. most of the data shows that there is a relationship between progression of what was considered a benign substance, like alcohol or marijuana to harder drugs. so here's a graphic. this is from the color to department, public health and environment data, and the graphic on drug overdoses over time. so you can see that since legalization, the prescription opioid deaths have gone up, methamphetamine has gone up. cocaine has gone up and, and sentinel, and then this is the provisional 2020 data. i look what happened to the prescription opioids. they went through the roof, fet,

know has gone through the roof just in one year. fentanyl overdoses went up over a 150 percent in colorado. um cocaine is going up, methamphetamine is going up. and if you can look at the data compared to 2014, when we legalize all of these substances, people were dying in colorado have gone up over 100 percent, fentanyl, 700 percent in particular. so i work in the emergency department. this is the 3rd, this is the emergency department in the state of colorado, and we see at least every day we see marijuana cases. so if i work every single day, i work, i see at least one or 2 problems that are a medical problem is directly related from cannabis. we see it every single day, and most of times people do not come on their own. they're usually either in an ambulance or police or bringing them here. sometimes family members get them here. i've done emergency medicine for over 25 years. and this sometimes is the most

acute treason taishan of psychosis, where people are screaming, yelling, and they have no idea where they're at. and they're very combative and very agitated. people tend to be completely out of it. they need a lot of medications to the data, and they need a prolonged observation. emergency department, we're seeing more and more of these cases. and sadly, the youngest person that i saw was 12 became with acute psychosis. so we're seeing a lot of it and younger kids, the number of people using marijuana almost every day has increased by a factor of 7 in the united states since 1992. and the number of people using marijuana almost every day has increased 57 percent since 2007. so this isn't about the, the guy wanting to smoke a joint and the adult wanting to some hot now and then not at all. this is about heavy use, young people using almost every day. this is the crux of the problem and legalization makes it worse because legalization is commercialization. it's math promotion.

a we're in denver right now, which is the capital of our state, colorado. as far as money rally and basically where everybody comes together, folks cannabis or say very about canvas and you know, and you can't get out of it and it started with something so innocent. i was wanting to socialize like when i 1st started using marijuana. it was because i wanted to connect with my friends, which is a beautiful thing, and then not too high. we teach how to connect with people without having to use substances. but you know, it wasn't until i was 20 years old that i was taught, hey, you actually don't need substances to connect with people, giving people education around it because we're taught in high school and, and middle school, hey, drugs are bad, marijuana don't do it. the gateway drugs, we've had a lot like i remember laughing and middle school being like, who the hell are these people, you know? and then when i started to go on my own journey, i was like, wow, yes,

marijuana is a gateway drug and really realizing how powerful and how, how much it took over me. so yeah, education is key and not normalizing it anymore because there's nothing normal about it. mm. ah, i was diagnosed with cancer in 2000 lives. when the doctors told me the cancer was incurable. i knew i had to make a change. so i decided to travel to one of the most toxic places in america, florida. one of florida is biggest industries and best kept secrets, is fostering and the biggest player is $85000000000.00 industry. is mosaic, and i, there are reports of millions of gallons of contaminated water now lowing into the florida aquifer. the main problem is the chronic. i don't want to hear that word polling, but that's what it is. i'm in 2013 my uncle, our family dog,

my brother, who was 21 years old, myself and my father were all diana with rob rob jeff problem with a good way. yeah. maybe they'll actually learn more help is more important than this isn't an opening. oh, even susie children have been kid for at the fountains. house. oh me. yeah. papa blue i get out or take my my mom with when i should. he's good. a nice medical of michelle. mm hm. oh gosh, no man is violet. mom on is violet that dana mom?

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you know, your brain is developing up until about 25 or, or 30 even. and what that means is your brain is essentially under construction. anything that affects that brain, i has the ability to affect it for the rest of this life, much more than when you're an adult. it's why if your child or you learn a 2nd language, you actually learn it easier than if you're an adult. your brain is a sponge, it's taking everything in your side is the issue of addiction. and so any drug that comes into contact that you go into contact with affects your brain is one that has the ability to stay with you for a very long time. and for marijuana, it's certainly the case because it affects the parts of the brain that are responsible for all kinds of things, including learning, concentration, coordination. i think something that's really important about talking about marijuana is how it d stabilizes. you're able to,

the ability to regulate your emotions. it's really interesting the endo canada noise system. actually the more you use marijuana, the more that you can't regulate, like you can't regulate your emotions. the problem is we have such a high suicide rate and such high rates of depression, amongst teens and young adults. and i think that kind of gets left out of these conversations about drug use sometimes is that it's a way to dull the pain, but it also starts this vicious cycle where you're using read to doll, this pain that you have. and it also creates this instability in your system, and then it just keeps going and going and going. and i've seen a lot of people fall down that route and i almost did myself. and it's really challenging to come out of it, especially here. i just wanted, i'll have you right on inside. okay. in the presence of marijuana in all age groups, that complete suicide has risen every single year. so for your vision,

we have an increase in air one or related driving fatalities. we have increased utilization of an already stressed health care system. the latest data that i read, that for every dollar generated in colorado, it costs $450.00 to regulate. i'm not sure that for the is what i think is the right number. i think it's less than that, but it's certainly not a money maker. it's just like any other substance of addiction. it's a money loser. and it's not the societal costs are going to far outstrip any type of money that's put in the pockets of the states. when you talk about finances for candidates and the communities are promised, all kinds of tax revenue, what they don't understand, what they don't see in the background. and this is what i try to share with the politicians, is that you're not seeing the costs that are associated with it to the community. the costs are super high when you talk about the number of emergency room visits. so if we take just one problem that we see with candidates,

and that's hyper amasis related to can't really do or c, h, s, these people are young, typically in their twenties, thirties, an offer that was repetitive, or sticklett, vomiting that is often profound and pretty severe and we actually the sound they make while they're vomiting, we terms ramadan, it's a combination of scream and vomiting. and so if this person comes to emergency room and these people will come frequently, they get c t scans to get blood work. i v medications nursing time, not counting imaging, scanning or hospitalization. if we just say the cost for an e d visit medication nursing that kind of stuff is about $5000.00 to $6000.00 per visit. so if we say in our emergency department, i would hazard that we're saying at least one day if not more. so if we say one visit once a day for cape ramesses' at the cost of about $5000.00, the total cost. and that's our e, our cost is about $1800000.00,

and that's just one visit one day one e r. and there's 25 years in colorado. you know, one of the big hopes with legalization was that the black market would disappear and that still the big promise of the cannabis industry that they would help the black market to disappear. but what we're seeing is that because an 18 year old high school student can get a meth card easily at and can then can buy as much cannabis high th, the product as they want. we see a huge black market from kids. and unfortunately, because any drug use is illegal for kids, including marijuana including alcohol, any young person that is involved in drug use in my experience is often also involved in the distribution. which of course puts kid at high risk or legal involvement and things like that. so we see that that, that is, that has created

a huge black market with me. i said, well, i could probably have someone deliver it right here, or not. like that's how easy it is. and it's ridiculous. it's ridiculous. there are actually a lot of bugs in the colorado area and everyone's, i don't know, a lot of people just want to make their money and they're selling weed and marijuana in order to do that. and that's why it's so easy nowadays because it's such a simple way to make money and it's a ridiculous way to make a lot of profit. all right, so it's interesting neighborhood like this. when you have a grow house and the plants and flower, you can smell as you're riding your bike or your horse by the house, you can smell. and this house was known to been cartel gro house twice that we know of at least. and it is a group that was known to be heavily armed. it's been bought by

a reseller and fixed up, but it still has that memory of this. as your neighbor smelled like pot continuously, it was really run down the whole living room. the top floor there were the windows are, were nothing but big air conditioning units. and this house, the cartel where the people who are running it dug under this driveway and live tapped into the junction box there. so they were stealing energy and they also did the same thing in the back with the waters. so they were still in water. the other thing, a lot of times what will happen is you'll have these grow houses in neighborhoods like this. and they are being run by people who are being human traffic. so they'll take a family here to tend, the plants tend to crops and it looks gives the appearance of a family live inherited. a lot of times people be in traffic, the black markets not gone, the black market is alive and well, and there is no, i mean you can have home growth, but there's no plant police. no one comes around and checks how many plants you

have unless it becomes an issue. so we see that and where you're going to have your legal growth right here in these neighborhood. and so when the industry said, you know, we're going to make these and all this illegal or black markets stuff will go away . the black market stuff is alive and well here in colorado, and it may be your neighbor like it was mine. so i think one of the things that a lot of people don't know about marijuana is that the way it works is that th c is a copy of a neuro transmitter. we all have naturally in the brain. it's called an undermines . and it's actually one of our main calming neurotransmitters. so it helps us feel with stress and helps us calm down. so like kind of like a natural chill out or trans. now the reason most people don't know about it is because the cannabis industry is not using the terms. amanda, they are using the term, endo kind of annoyed,

really to create the impression that we have the copy of the candidates. right? and so then the rationale is, oh, you have cannot benoit receptors. so obviously you have receptors for kind of annoyed. so you should probably cannabis is a big cut misconception because is not that we have a copy of cannabis. it's that can of this is a copy of a new transmitter that we all have. but of course, because we all have it, you cannot make money. right? and so that's why nobody is teaching people about it. nobody's teaching people how you have the natural nor transmitter inside of you. you don't need to buy the coffee, you know, learn about the natural nerve transmitter and how to make more of it, how to release it, and how to feel good on your own supply. the body releases these chemicals, right? and then what happens next? what happens next to these chemicals?

what tricity, why it starts out with electricity. it goes into the horseshoe. it goes into the receptor. that's right. and then the, and that causes another electrical impulse. and dad is what you feel as a chill out feeling. right? ok, watch it. watch it. you put your back to the other person and then you start pushing and you try to be the winner. okay. you try to push the other person from ha, ha. 7 as you can a broker who is i don't know why i didn't get it. i take a moment down there down and sit down and close your

eyes and feel the amanda might kicking in. ok, check your body and feel your chill out nerve transmitter kicking in. that is the function of amanda. my bed after you exhaust yourself. after you exert yourself physically, you fear that she allowed nerve transmitter kicking in. can you feel that and now check for a 2nd. can you feel the similarity to th see? can you feel that this is actually where people are looking for? right? i think people should remember that this is about money. it's about getting rich. it's about starting the next tobacco industry is about starting a special interest lobbying group. you know, when i was working in washington dc, there were this teen lobbyists for every member of congress from the alcohol and tobacco industry's. so you can imagine with marijuana, what that's going to look like this is about a small number of people getting very rich. and i think frankly,

the rest of the world is looking at america and, you know, saying oh, you want to try to legalize marijuana and make your population less smart and less competitive. go for it because it's going to help other countries, since legalization the industry has created products that were not available before . you know, so th, the potency before legalization was under 10 percent. and now we don't know what a product does in a teenage brain or even in, in, in an adult frame that has 60708090 percent ph. see we have absolutely no research on that. so in the netherlands, for example, anything that has above 15 percent t h d is considered a hard drug and it's getting prosecuted like a hard drive. it's not the fame marijuana. when i was a kid, a very low percentage of th c, now it's over 90 percent with the shatters and waxes of debs that they're using.

it's very toxic. it's very dangerous. we found at johnny's ambassadors, 6 months after he died, we $2200.00 ambassadors. so far we are hoping to start a large movement of ambassadors all over the u. s. and the world to really raise awareness and to speak our truth about the harms to our youth from these new products m to loudly to demand change. and to get guard, we'll put in place for our youth and legislation, but protect them until their brains are formed. and we have to call on fellow citizens and voters to put the changes in place that prevents because we will lose many generations of young children with mental issues that close the bipolar delusion. paranoid, there are so many illnesses that result from this and they will never be the same.

and it can happen to anyone, any child ah, and we don't want any parent to have to set up what the hell we are going through. we don't want anyone to follow johnny's past me. ah, i wish ah, one of the worst ever mass shootings in america was in las vegas in 2017. the tragedy exploded a little of the real las vegas,

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