drug use
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‘Life over abstinence’: Colorado legislators again pursue supervised drug use centers
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When Maggie Seldeen’s mother died from a heroin overdose, no one called 911. At only 15 years old, overdoses were almost commonplace in Seldeen’s world, surrounded by addiction, drug dealing and domestic violence in the Roaring Fork Valley. Seldeen, an injection drug user herself at the time, did not know about naloxone, or Narcan, which…
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Lawmakers pass bill to implement legal ‘magic mushroom’ industry in Colorado
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An effort to roll out Colorado’s legal psychedelics industry cleared its last major legislative hurdle on Saturday with the House’s passage of Senate Bill 290. If made law, the bill would help to implement Proposition 122, passed by Colorado voters in November. The ballot measure legalized the “magic mushroom” hallucinogenic compounds psilocybin and psilocin for medicinal…
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Lawmakers kill bill to allow supervised drug injection sites in Colorado
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Proponents seeking to establish supervised drug injection sites in Colorado saw their latest effort in a years-long battle meet a bitter end Wednesday evening. House Bill 1202 sought to give municipalities the power to allow sites in their communities where people could use illegal drugs under supervision of medical professionals, which backers of the policy said would…
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Colorado moves to implement legal ‘magic mushroom’ industry
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Colorado lawmakers on Tuesday took another step towards rolling out the state’s legal psychedelics industry with the advancement of Senate Bill 290. If made law, the bill would help to implement Proposition 122, passed by Colorado voters in November. The ballot measure legalized the “magic mushroom” hallucinogenic compounds psilocybin and psilocin for medicinal use, and…
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Teen-backed bill aims to bring substance abuse intervention to Colorado middle, high schools
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In Rock Canyon High School, senior Bhavya Surapaneni said it is the norm to walk in on her fellow students vaping in the bathrooms, hear stories of their weekend binge drinking and occasionally watch her peers be suspended for possessing illicit drugs – sent home with nothing more than a brochure on the dangers of…
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Advocacy group blames Colo. for rise in worker marijuana use
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WASHINGTON – A national anti-marijuana group is blaming Colorado as one of the states propelling a rise in marijuana use among the U.S. workforce. That follows a new medical laboratory report showing that usage of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana is rising in the national workforce. States that legalized marijuana showed the biggest increases in pot…
