ah marijuana starting at the age of 14 and battled for the next 5 years, his addiction eventually became psychotic, using very high potency wax. and he jumped off a 6 story building. i guess that was the only way he knew how to end. ah, today we're at the 2015 honda we're here what? oh, we've had a sore vendor with edible and some of the people in colorado, nearly 2 thousands, colorado became head 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 th c products that led to the psychosis. you know, he ultimately died as a result of psychosis brought on by high cac marijuana. and i believe that if you'd never consumed marijuana that he'd still be here today. ah, ah, i am connie boy. and i live in denver, colorado. oh, nice fun is diagnosed to franka civically from cannabis.

4 years ago. careless and 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 he failed every classes, sophomore year, 1st person was an african exchange student li by phone boss, 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 off 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 himself. 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 confirmation are my distributing kitchen, and we're going to go in and see what everybody's doing as far as packaging. all. 0 of our cammie 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 veteran i was your head going into our for peter 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 that when my kids get in school than other kids, my brings them to school and not even realize that they are a mere one animal. and then after it's my kid or when they go to their friends

houses, if those parents have them around when my kids don't, well, i worry about that. my name is a can fan how may pain management physician 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 expanded marijuana programs and the impact on the opiate epidemic. it's not helping them. 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 from my perspective, show johnny's room. okay. here with

we had this blanket made out of his favorite t shirts. was very addicted. you 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. it went right back to the dads, bad crowd, 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 or one canada all day long. it's an addition they

have moved to source have develop mood disorder. a lot of shit going in and you know me, let's just say i'm going people smoke marijuana now, and 5 percent of them are marijuana ice. if they, you eyes, marijuana and julia, people smoke marijuana now will. ready be were 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 it can. 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 argue with. 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 frightened. 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 that mentality is what so scary amounts with leading people to these awful addictions. but they don't even realize our addictions. i mean, i can tell you, i was one of those people that i would sob. and cry, and scream and yell and slammed 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. i am 30 days where he'd be like, hey,

i couldn't afford the dobbs that he 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 co and. ready then it was, oh it's just hill. oh i'm just going to do it once. yeah. and then it's, oh i'm just going to try this. why? said 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 in this interesting because there's such a link and this is kind of where my wheelhouse comes with

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 opioid use disorder and an adult is ever having used marijuana before the age of 18. so the link between cannabis and opiates is very strong. the national survey drug use in health hair when 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 alcor, 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

and prescription opioid deaths have gone up, methamphetamine is gone. now cocaine is going up and, and sentinel, and then this is the provisional 2020 data look what happened to the prescription opioid they went through the roof. that know has gone through the roof just in one year. fentanyl overdoses went up over a 115 percent in colorado. 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 services, people are dying in colorado. have gone up over 100 percent, that no 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 columns. their medical problem is directly related cannabis

. we see it every single day and most, assigning people do not come on their own. they're usually either in an ambulance or lisa bringing them here. sometimes family members get them here. i've done emergency medicine for over 25 years and just sometimes is the most acute trees mentation of psychosis. where people are screaming jelly, 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, 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 a cute 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 in 1992. and the number of people using marijuana almost every day as increased 57 percent since 2007. so

this isn't about the guy wanting to smoke a joint and 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 way that 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 and smokes cannabis, our state is 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 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 in middle school, hey, drugs are bad. marijuana don't do it. the gateway drug be kind of laugh 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 hm. and with a chill, tristan's goal is to chose again, formulas with which one is wondering about the way to assess my william is the school is out of it. i see what was left the keenest eyeball on it with

a couple of ensuring you was working with the department. i a generic issue, a machine that it did with no, i mean logical, put them out with the theme years per hour or so on. you with with, 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 the feel side 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, endo canada noise system. actually, the more you use marijuana, the more that you can't regulate, like you can't regulate your motion. the problem is we have such a high suicide rate and such high rates of depression among teens and young adults

. and i think that kind of gets left out of these conversations about drug use sometime is that it's a way to do all the pain. but it also starts this vicious cycle where you're using, we'd to dull the pain that you have. and it also creates this instability in your system and then just keep 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. so i just wanted have you right on inside. okay. in the presence of marijuana in all age groups, that complete suicide has risen every single year. since legal evasion, 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 cost $450.00 to regulate. i'm not sure that 40 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 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 cannabis and the communities are promised, all kinds of tax revenue, but what they don't understand and what they don't in the background. and this is why 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 emma says related can really do or c h s, these people or young typically in their twenties, thirties, and offer that was repetitive or cyclic 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. ivy's medications nursing time, not counting imaging, scanning or hospitalization. if we just say the cost for evie visit medications, nursing that kind of stuff is about $5000.00 to $6000.00 a day or a visit. so we say in our emergency department, i would hazard that we're saying at least one a day, if not more. so we say one visit once a day for carp ramesses' that 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's 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 met 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 for legal involvement and things like that. so we see that that, that is, has created a huge black market. a. 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 i own a lot of people just wanna ceremony 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 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, or 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 water. 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 you have unless it becomes an issue. so we see that and where you're going to have your legal growth right here in the neighborhood. and so when the industry said you were going to make these and all this illegal or black market 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 neurotransmitter. 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 deal with stress and helps us calm down. so like kind of like a natural chin loud or trans. 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 receptors. so obviously you have receptors for kind of annoyed. 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 new or 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 transmitters and how to make more of a, 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? well, 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, loud 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 go to the who is i don't know why i didn't get one and then 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 team 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 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 t h 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 t h. 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 harm 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 issues, psychosis, bipolar delusion paranoia. there are so many illnesses that result from this and they will never be the same. and it could happen to anyone. i mean, child ah, and we don't want any parents to have to head up what the hell that we are going through. we don't want anyone to follow johnny's path. we

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