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in colorado. early 2, thousands, colorado became kind of a test bed for medical and then later recreational marijuana. you know, at the time i wasn't really concerned, i didn't have a strong opinion about it. either way. i didn't know that marijuana had changed so drastically from when we were younger. when johnny 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 t h. c. products that led to the psychosis. you know, he ultimately died as a result of the psychosis brought on by i t. c. marijuana. and i believe that if you'd never consumed marijuana that he'd still be here today. oh, i, connie boy,

can i live in denver, colorado? my son was diagnosed his kit to frontier, specifically from cannabis. 4 years ago, careless and a gifted program through elementary and middle school. and he was doing great man is introduced to marijuana his sophomore year or the summer over his sophomore year . and tom, he failed every class, his sophomore year, 1st person was an african exchange student li, by phone, bob, 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 an 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 killings of, you know, when, when you use these edibles, did not like smoky,

it 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 consummation or my distributing kitchen, and we're going to go in and see what everybody is doing as far as packaging. all of our cammie and our compliance packaging or with so this is where we are putting all of our integrals into the child. proof re close val, containers and i was your head going into our product key area. we make everything by hand, and about 3 and a half years ago, we started playing with old fashion candy recipes. i also fear about the marijuana edible. they went my kids given school than other kids, my brain in the school and not even realize that they are

a mere want to handle and then operate my head or when they go to their friends houses, if those here and have them around when my kids don't know, i worry about that. my name is ken fanny mae p management position in colorado springs. i've been practicing here for nearly 27 years. now. are you seeing you? i'm 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 opiate epidemic is not helping. and i think it does become simply another addiction for profit industry also backs of of youth because they want lifelong customers. so this is really a public health and safety concern for my perspective. show johnny's room. okay. up here

with we had this blanket made out of his favorite t shirts. very addicted. he just couldn't stop. he tried to tried so hard. one time he stopped for 4 months and he was back to himself, happy. ready to try again to go to school and i talked to the dads, bag crowd than 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. marijuana canada all day long. it's in addition,

they actually have moved to sort of development just a lot of shit going in and you know me, as you say, a 1000000 people smoke marijuana now and 5 percent of them are marijuana ice. if they, you eyes, marijuana and julia, people smoke marijuana. now it will be more than 5. you, you're, it'd be 20 percent because a percentage of the people who were smoking before really couldn't get it as easily as you can. now i have worked for over 20 years now in this community as a 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 to abuse. 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, where people like i would say at least 80 percent how at least frightened. i wanna i would say it's a very small fraction of people who have never smoked. we'd 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's so scary. and that's what's leading people to these awful addictions that 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. because he was over age. ah, and there would be days where he'd be like, hey, i couldn't afford the dobbs 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 it 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 hope that. ready it was, oh it's just hell. oh, i'm just going to do it once. 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 and opioids. the number one risk factor for adolescent opioid 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, 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 prescribe her opiate 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 opioid 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. and cocaine is going up. methamphetamine is going up and if you could 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 presentation of psychosis, where people are screaming, yelling, 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 that came 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 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 ah ah, ah ah

ah, ah, a ah, with join me every 1st bit on the alex simon. sure. well obviously you the guess on the world politics sport. business. i'm sure business, i'll see you then. mm. 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 has the ability to affect it for the rest of his 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 site is the issue of addiction. and so any drug that comes in contact with 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 all have right on inside or just in the presence of marijuana in all age groups. that complete suicide has risen every single we are we have an increase in their wonder 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 fee 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 pocket of the states. when you talk about finances for canada, and the communities are promised all kinds of tax revenue, but what they don't understand and 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 visit. so if we take just one problem that we see with candidates, and that's hyper emma says, related to can't really do or c h s, these people are young typically in their twenties, thirties, and all present was repetitive, risk, booklet,

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 the 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 costs for an e d visit medication nursing that kind of stuff is about $5000.00 to $6000.00 good or 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 one today for ramesses' at the cost of about $5000.00, the total cost. and that's our e. our cost is about $1800000.00. last is 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 match card easily at and can then can buy as much cannabis high teach the products as they want. we see a huge black market from kids to peer. and unfortunately, you know, 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 copays. so i said, well, i could probably have someone deliver it right here. enough 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. i 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 ridiculous way to make a lot of profit. all right, so it's interesting in a neighborhood like this. when you have a grow house and the plants of power, you can smell as you're riding your bike or your horse by the house you can smell. and this house was the known cuban 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 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, 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 stealing 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 the crops and it looks gives the appearance of a family live inherent. it's 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 do 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 under my eye, and it's actually one of our main calming nerve transmitters. so it helps us deal with stress and helps us calm down. so like kind of like a natural chill, our nor transit. now the reason most people don't know about it is because the cannabis industry is not using the terms and 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 receptor. so obviously you have receptors for canada noise.

so you should probably cannabis is a big cut misconception because it's not that we have a copy of cannabis. it's that can of this is a copy of a 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 and there are times that are inside of you. you don't need to buy the coffee, you know, learn about the natural nerve that are and how to make more of it, how to release that, 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, lead to 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 for parts hard. 7 as you can broker, which 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 care. 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 feel that she allowed nerve transmitters 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 what 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 and 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 brain that has 60708090 percent which see we have absolutely no research on that. so in the netherlands, for example, anything that has above 15 percent th d is considered a hard drug and is 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 the new products m to hell loudly and demand change. and to get guard rails put in place for our youth and legislation that protects them until their brains are formed. and we have to call on fellow citizens and voters to put the changes in place that prevents this because we will lose many generations of young children with mental issue, psychosis, bipolar delusion paranoia. 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 parents to have to set up what the hell that we are going through. we don't want anyone to follow john his path.

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