How safe is recreational marijuana?
Roxanne Khamsi of Scientific American has delivered a cursory overview of how recreational marijuana use affects public health and safety in ways that trouble researchers. Her report — which, again, focuses only on areas of worry — is worth reading. While...
Colorado supports THC limits with no limits
Yesterday, I raised questions about the urgent need for enforcement of federal law and a very strong regulatory framework for the legalization of recreational marijuana. If it must exist, this framework also must protect public health and safety and put the interests...
Denver teens face greater pressure to use
There’s always one slide in the presentations I give about marijuana’s effects on the teen brain that makes my young audiences scoff — and a talk I gave earlier this week at Denver’s East High School was no exception. The slide illustrates what...
Don’t call us? We’ll call you out.
What a coincidence. Today, journalists representing eight news agencies contacted me, seeking interviews with my husband, Dr. Christian Thurstone, whom Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper recently named to a task force that will make various recommendations to state...
CO governor names Thurstone to marijuana task force
Gov. Hickenlooper signs Amendment 64 proclamation, creates task force to recommend needed legislative actions DENVER — Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 — Gov. John Hickenlooper today signed an Executive Order that makes an “official declaration of the vote” related to Amendment...Read the book
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