Author: Rachel O’Bryan
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A decade of fighting to protect Colorado kids from pot | OPINION
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Rachel O’Bryan Hold your laughter and applause. This top-10 list isn’t funny at all. Jan. 1, 2024, marks a dubious anniversary: 10 years of legal marijuana sales in Colorado to adults 21 and older. One Chance to Grow Up is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization formed after Colorado legalized recreational marijuana – and the governor-appointed advisory…
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Busted: How the pot industry peddles to our kids
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Rachel O’Bryan I buy kid-friendly marijuana products for my work. What I see scares me. I buy marijuana for an online educational resource. Through my secret shopping of recreational marijuana products I’ve purchased: A candy bar named after a Disney movie. A vaporizer of a marijuana strain named after a Girl Scout cookie. Mass-produced candy…
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For our kids’ sake, rein in reckless pot peddlers
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Rachel O’Bryan Eight years after recreational marijuana was legalized in Colorado, the data show kids pay consequences when adults approve a commercialized marijuana market. Official state data released on Aug. 3 report an alarming increase in teen use of ultra-potent pot products in the form of dabs and vapes. More than half of students who use marijuana reported…
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IN RESPONSE | Keep pot shops out of the Springs
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Rachel O’Bryan Joey Bunch’s column (“Colorado Springs faces choice about going to pot,” June 8) rightly points out how Colorado Springs has a target on its back, just like Moby Dick, the legendary white whale sought by Captain Ahab. Why? Because the marijuana industry in Colorado wants desperately to “catch” Colorado Springs with marijuana commercialization,…
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New look marijuana products threaten Colorado kids
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A Colorado committee recently considered how to regulate a new generation of marijuana-based products that illustrate just how far commercialization has extended since the comparatively innocent days before the legalization of recreational marijuana. The official state work group considered what to do about radically new ways to deliver intense amounts of THC, the main psychoactive…
