SAVE OUR KIDS!

In August 2009 the first pot store opened in Edwards without any
notice, local business registration, or county permit oversight. We
learned of this new pot business only through a newspaper article
telling us that it was providing medical marijuana to 69 registered
Colorado permit holders in Eagle County. Prior to this new pot store,
patients produced their own pot or picked up the phone and ordered
their drugs with free delivery from Boulder. Today there are seven pot
shops in Eagle County providing this service for 892 registered
patients out of an estimated 50,000 residents as of latest public
health records on Jan. 31, 2010.

One of the first pot shops is within 300 feet of a church in Edwards,
and the county commissioners after approving new zoning laws last year
have allowed this pot shop to remain in business with an exception to
county zoning. Kids can see the pot shop doing business from their
day-care playground.

The new Eagle Medical Marijuana Business Alliance, made up of the
local pot store owners, held a voter registration at Paddy's and
provided free beer and food on Oct 3. However, they did not register
as an issue committee with the Colorado Secretary of State in
violation of election laws and are in the process of influencing our
Nov. 2 election in Eagle County on ballot issue 1B. Stop 1B and save
our kids!

Buddy Sims

Edwards