STOP THE MADNESS

National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske told CBS Radio
News young people are being exposed to "mixed messages" about
marijuana including the idea that it is a medicine. The "drug czar"
said marijuana "may have properties that have medicinal values that
should be tested," but he insisted "it is not medicine." Kerlikowske
views marijuana as "an entry drug." The survey found that for the
first time since 2002, less than half of young people believe using
marijuana is harmful. The Obama administration remains strongly
opposed to legalization of marijuana.

If our president and drug czar say that medical marijuana is not
medicine, then what is it? And why did so many Colorado voters
approve it in November 2000? I feel the answer is they did not fully
understand what the final impact would be 10 years later on their
communities in Colorado. Did Eagle County vote to have seven pot
shops and many more coming? Did Denver realize that today they would
have over 300 pot shops within 50 miles of the city center and set a
public record for more pot shops than Starbucks and schools combined?

This madness has to stop if we are really trying to help those
patients with serious medical problems that are using pot.
Recreational pot and medical marijuana are the same product, just
labeled differently. We are exposing our kids to the wrong message on
pot. But now on 1B, we have the opportunity to reverse what Amendment
20 has done to our community. Now is the time to seriously consider
voting "NO" on 1B as this county will be living for years with how we vote!

Stop 1B and save our kids.

Buddy Sims

Edwards, CO Colorado