The green rush is bringing hope back to this once-booming coal mining town in rural southeast Colorado, just 11 miles from the New Mexico border, where generations of Mattie's family have lived. Residents pride themselves on the town's pioneer reputation and Wild West spirit.
Now this movement is been dubbed the "green rush" because it is bring so many jobs back to these struggling Colorado towns. The marijuana industry has revived many parts of Colorado's economy.
It's in large part thanks to at least $800,000 in marijuana tax revenue.
The taxes helped to restart this town and revive it. It used to be a coal mining town but with the less people using coal the town fell apart.
Did pot money save small town from 'abyss of nothingness'?
Marijuana in Colorado is helping out by bringing in taxes. They helped bring back the small town of Trinidad.
"Youth marijuana use can have lifelong implications. The risks, which include psychosis, suicide, drug addiction and lower IQs, have been reported based on research on much lower THC potencies than are typically sold on Colorado's commercial market," she said.
Even though marijuana use by teens has decreased it is still too many youth using marijuana because it has a strong affect on youths brain function later in life.
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There is a graph of Marihuana support over time and the graph shows that more people are supporting marijuana now. But Democrats support marijuana much more than Republicans.
The biannual poll by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment also showed the percentage of high school students indulging in marijuana in Colorado was smaller than the national average among teens.
The survey was done by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The survey seems very trustworthy because it was done through this department. But, some of the people surveyed could have lied about their marijuana use.
Teen marijuana use in Colorado found lower than national average
This is surprising due to the fact that Colorado has legal marijuana. I thought the amount of consumption would have increased because of the legalization.
Kleiman's worst-case scenario is possible, but not likely. Based on existing empirical evidence, we expect that the legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington will lead to increased marijuana consumption coupled with decreased alcohol consumption. As a consequence, these states will experience a reduction in the social harms resulting from alcohol use. While it is more than likely that marijuana produced by state-sanctioned growers will end up in the hands of minors, we predict that overall youth consumption will remain stable. On net, we predict the public-health benefits of legalization to be positive.
The authors conclusion is very positive for marijuana and seems to predict a positive outcome with legalization. With the legalization more marijuana Will end up in the hands of minors but they do not predict an increase in youth consumption of marijuana. So Indian the author believes there'll be a positive outcome. If this is the worst-case scenario legalizing of marijuana would be a no-brainer.
he results of DiNardo and Lemieux (2001), Crost and Guerrero (2012), and Anderson, Hansen, and Rees (2013) suggest that, as marijuana becomes more available, young adults in Colorado and Washington will respond by drinking less, not more. If nonmedical marijuana states legalize the use of recreational marijuana, they should also experience reductions in drinking with the accompanying public-health benefits.
The authors evidence seems unbiased a correct. The relationship between marijuana and alcohol seems to say that the more marijuana there is, the less drinking there will be. So, the author believes that if marijuana is legalized there will be health benefits because there is less consumption of alcohol.
Below, we discuss the likely effects of legalizing marijuana for recreational use on alcohol consumption, traffic fatalities, substance use among high school students, and other outcomes of interest to policymakers and the public. Our discussion draws heavily on studies that have examined the legalization of medical marijuana. These studies are relevant because, in states such as California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes approaches de facto legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes.
The authors purpose is to look at the effects of recreational marijuana on public health. It in this paper they're looking at the worst possible scenarios that could happened with the legalization. This article is it important to measure the risk of the new laws. The stakeholders in this article are The sellers of legal marijuana. They hold stake in the worst case scenario because they put a lot of money into the business.
The Legalization of Recreational Marijuana: How Likely Is the Worst-Case Scenario?
Anderson, D. Mark, and Daniel I. Rees. "The Legalization of Recreational Marijuana: How Likely Is the Worst-Case Scenario?" J. Pol. Anal. Manage. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 33.1 (2013): 221-32. Wiley Online Library. Web. 10 July 2016.
This article is looking directly at how recreational marijuana could go badly.
Although the mayor blamed recent trouble on “urban travelers” and marijuana, police do not know whether Seeley was on drugs or in the middle of a mental health crisis, Quinones said.
Mayor Hancock made people rethink their opinion on legalized marijuana in the state of Colorado. He cast doubt on whether it was a good idea. But the police do not know if this attack was caused by drugs or mental health.
Another video of people behaving badly on the 16th Street Mall led Denver Mayor Michael Hancock to blame marijuana for an increase in “urban travelers” and to renew his message that assaults and other violent behavior will not be tolerated.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock blamed marijuana for these assaults. He believes there needs to be more police on 16th St. mall to protect people.
Denver mayor says violence won’t be tolerated on 16th Street Mall
Phillips, Noelle. "Denver Mayor Says Violence Won’t Be Tolerated on 16th Street Mall." The Denver Post 30 June 2016: n. pag. Print.
There has been an influx of people coming to Colorado and specifically Denver since the marijuana law has passed. Video these people do not have anywhere to stay and are staying on the streets. Since the legalization of marijuana there has been more assaults on the 16th St. mall.
CHALLENGES OF EDIBLE MARIJUANA PRODUCTS
The authors believe edibles need to be more regulated. This conclusion is well supported by their evidence of many hospital cases due to edible marijuana.
While many users feel they have benefited from marijuana legalization in Colorado, there have also been untoward adverse health effects. The risks of use must be consistently communicated through health care practitioners and public health officials, especially for edible products that pose unique risks for exposed adults and children. Ultimately, additional research is needed to quantify the benefits and risks of marijuana utilization so health care professionals can have well-informed discussions with medical and recreational users.
The authors discovered that many users feel they have benefited from legalized marijuana. But there are still a major health risks for these users, which the authors Believe should be communicated by doctors and healthcare officials. They feel this is especially best say for edible products. In the end, the authors believe there needs to be more research done to see if the benefits outweigh the risks of marijuana usage.
Physicians have the responsibility to present a balanced perspective, identifying both the potential health benefits and risks associated with marijuana use. In this Viewpoint, we discuss the history of marijuana policy in Colorado and the expected and unexpected effects of increased marijuana availability. Other states considering marijuana policy liberalization may learn from the experiences in Colorado.
The authors purpose for writing in this journal is to educate the readers about the history of marijuana in the state of Colorado. They wanted to evaluate the positives and negatives of the increased availability of marijuana.
Andrew A. Monte, MD1,2; Richard D. Zane, MD1; Kennon J. Heard, MD, PhD1,2
The authors are all medical doctors or PhD's. All of them work in Colorado for different health organizations. The authors have a stake in writing this article because they want what is best for the state that they live in.
The Implications of Marijuana Legalization in Colorado
Monte, Andrew A., Richard D. Zane, and Kennon J. Heard. "The Implications of Marijuana Legalization in Colorado." Jama 313.3 (2015): 241. The JAMA Network. Web. 10 July 2016.
The Journal is being put out by the Journal of American Medical Association or JAMA. They have a stake in this controversial topic because they need to figure out what is medically best for the public.
The abrupt change in treatment entrants, arrests, and changes in poison center calls suggests an important role of policy change. Public health interventions, such as educational campaigns, could be utilized to mitigate negative outcomes. This report, owing to the unique effects over time, can be used as a guide to some of the short-term effects that may be related to marijuana policy changes in other states.
Based on the data the authors suggest public health interventions. These interventions could covet it before of educational campaigns or even policy change. These changes would help mitigate negative outcomes.
This was records-based research from the state of Colorado and Denver metropolitan area. Data were collected to examine frequency and trends of marijuana-related outcomes in hospital discharges and poison center calls between time periods before and after 2009 and adjusted for population.
The data and evidence should be trusted because all the authors are examining is the public health records relating to marijuana. These records are centered around hospitals and poison centers. The authors examined the number of marijuana related incidents before and after 2009. 2009 was the year the laws changed making medical marijuana legal.
Although it is likely more individuals consumed alcohol than marijuana, in 2012, alcohol-related hospital discharges were approximately fivefold higher (623.2 vs 122.2 per 100,000; Colorado Drug and Alcohol Coordinated Data System); emergency department visits where alcohol was a component were 5.6 times higher (984.6 vs 176.2 per 100,000; CDPHE, Colorado Hospital Association Discharge Data Program); and treatment for alcohol dependence entries in 2012 were nearly two times higher (5,631 vs 2,845; Colorado Drug and Alcohol Coordinated Data System).
In this section, the authors draw a correlation between alcohol and marijuana. In their research, the authors discover that alcohol related hospital discharges are five times as high as marijuana. Also, alcohol had 5.6 times higher emergency department visits that marijuana and there was a two times higher treatment for alcohol dependency then marijuana dependence. But, the authors do point out that way more people drink alcohol then concealed marijuana, so these data points may not be completely accurate based on the number of people consuming each substance.
When taken with changes suggesting a decrease in the perceived risk of marijuana,2, 5 and 6 these factors may mark increased use and increased acceptance of marijuana over this time period, and be important components of deleterious public health outcomes. In addition to an increase in prevalence of marijuana use over this time frame2 and 6 and increases in marijuana-related fatal motor vehicle crashes previously reported,13 this study identified increases in hospital discharges, poison center calls, and decreases in treatment entries and arrests in this time period. These concomitant occurrences suggest important effects that may be related to policy changes.
Over the time frame that the study was taken, there was a significant increase in marijuana usage. Also, more people became accepting of marijuana. Other positives were there were less treatment entries and arrests during this time. But they were more marijuana related motor accidents and the public health outcomes were still unknown.
The public health consequences of the legalization of marijuana, whether for medical or recreational purposes, are little understood. Despite this, numerous states are considering medical or recreational legalization. In the context of abrupt changes in marijuana policy in 2009 in Colorado, the authors sought to investigate corresponding changes in marijuana-related public health indicators.
The authors purposes in writing this Journal is to better understand the effects of marijuana on the public and to figure out why the public has changed its stance on legalize marijuana. In the article they are looking for public health indicators, which show the effects of marijuana.
Jonathan M. Davis, PhD1, , , Bruce Mendelson, MPA2, Jay J. Berkes, BS1, Katie Suleta, MPH1, Karen F. Corsi, ScD1, Robert E. Booth, PhD1
All of the authors writing this journal are college educated and many of them have Masters and even PhD's. Most of the authors live in the state of Colorado, so that they should have extensive knowledge of how marijuana has affected the state.
Public Health Effects of Medical Marijuana Legalization in Colorado
Davis, Jonathan M., Bruce Mendelson, Jay J. Berkes, Katie Suleta, Karen F. Corsi, and Robert E. Booth. "Public Health Effects of Medical Marijuana Legalization in Colorado." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 50.3 (2016): 373-79. Science Direct. Web. 10 July 2016.
Based on the title the journal is going to analyze how marijuana affects the public. It is also specifically based on Colorado after the medical marijuana legalization. The journal is being published by the American Journal of preventative medicine. This journal should be trustworthy because it is put out by United States Government. But the journal could be biased based around the current laws of the federal government.
In the weeds: a baseline view of cannabis use among legalizing states and their neighboursAuthors
Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo, Mireille Jacobson, and Ervant J. Maksabedian. "In the Weeds: A Baseline View of Cannabis Use among Legalizing States and Their Neighbours." Society for the Study of Addiction 111.6 (2016): 973-80. Wiley Online Library. Web. 10 July 2016.
The goal of the journal is to analyze how the legalization of cannabis has affected the state that legalized and the states surrounding that states. This is a controversial subject and it is highly debated.
Discussion
Overall this journal is more for facts and does not say if they advise using marijuana. The authors want the reader to come up with their own opinion based on the evidence and data shown. Based on the article the legalization of medical marijuana does not have huge affect on weather or not people consume marijuana. Washington and Oregon had a larger population that used marijuana and Colorado had a larger population than New Mexico. It is unclear if the legalization of recreational marijuana will have affect on the number of people that use. If a study is done like this again they need to get the race, gender and age of the people to be less biased.
Our study has some important limitations. In particular, it drew upon a household population that was predominantly female and had a very small proportion of young users (age < 21), and there were relatively few self-identified medical cannabis users in New Mexico. The fact that the people interviewed were predominantly female is particularly worrisome, given that medicinal users identified in previous studies were predominantly male. Despite these limitations, many of our findings are consistent with those in the literature
In the journal, the authors realize how biased their data is. This is based on the fact that the study was mostly females and almost none of the participants were below the age of 21.
We also consider differences in the patterns of use across our four states prior to the opening of legal stores for recreational sales in any of the four states.
Recreational marijuana is used significantly more than medical. This means medical did not change why people were consuming marijuana.
Given the racial composition of the states we studied, they were also overwhelmingly white (84% white, 8% Hispanic, 2.1% black, 2.2% other, 3.7% two or more races). More than 60% of respondents were older than 40 years and only approximately 15% were younger than 30. Thus, the sample, although representative of the states of interest, may be limited in providing very detailed views of substance abuse behavior specifically among young adults.
The data the authors collected is biased. When the study is 84% white and 60% of them are over 40 there is not an even distribution of subjects being tested. The race factor could be due to the fact that the states chosen are mostly white but this fact still makes the results slightly biased. The fact that the study did not have many younger adults will significantly affect the result because more young people use cannabis recreationally.
By looking at households across four states, this work can provide a broader understanding of medical and recreational cannabis use [18]. In addition, this paper fills a void in the literature by examining the degree of overlap between medicinal and recreational users, as well as their differential use patterns, modes of consumption and sources for cannabis. Understanding whether and how patterns of use among self-reported medical users differs from that of recreational users, and whether medical and recreational users access cannabis through the same or different sources should help us to understand more clearly the extent to which the legalization of cannabis for recreational purposes, and in particular the opening of (non-medical) retail stores, will further change access and use.
This journal is unlike any other in many ways. It has a larger sample size and it dives deeper into the over all nature of marijuana consumption. By using these methods the data and evidence collected should be much more accurate and much more trustworthy.
Although many states have passed medical cannabis laws, the recent recreational cannabis initiatives mark a dramatic shift in US cannabis policy from the complete outlaw of recreational sales, if not use, to the explicit sanctioning of it. Of particular interest is how these initiatives will affect future recreational and medical cannabis use.
The authors are writing this journal because of the new trend in legislation and the overall changing in the populations acceptance of cannabis. With weed becoming more readably available, studies like these are going to become more and more common and necessary.
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula,Close author notesCorresponding authorDrug Policy Research Center, RAND, California, CA, USACorrespondence to: Rosalie Pacula, Drug Policy Research Center—RAND, 1776 Main Street, PO Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, USA. E-mail: pacula@rand.orgSearch for more papers by this authorMireille Jacobson,Close author notesUniversity of California, Irvine - Business School, Irvine, CA, USASearch for more papers by this authorErvant J. Maksabedian
The SSA or the Society published the article for the Study of Addiction. This group has a stake in studying Marijuana because it is a highly debated topic if weed is addictive or not. So, these writers most likely have experience studying cannabis and its affects. The authors also have to be truthful because the journal is peer reviewed.
In the 2015-16 world rankings, a more accurate gauge for comparison than the calendar-year lists because it includes Australia’s summer season, three Americans (Ledecky, Lilly King and Josh Prenot) combined for world bests in five of 26 events. Phelps’s 200 butterfly time at these trials did not place him in the top five in the world. Neither did the winning times in the women’s 200 breaststroke, 100 freestyle or 200 butterfly.
The America swimmers times this year are making me very excited for the Olympic swimming this summer. I think the US has a good chance to win lots of events this summer.
Of all Michael Phelps’s feats, this one may be the most remarkable: He has been to four Olympics without once having to perform a skit in front of the other American swimmers.
Michael Phelps has fascinated me ever since I saw him in 2000. Also, I was a swimmer in high school so I have no idea how he can go so fast. Also, it is incredible that he can sustain his swimming skills for all these years.
Donald Drumpf, himself, should run also for vice president. He has told the public that “my primary consultant is myself.” True, this would be a bit unusual. But rather than tie him to hidebound historical precedents, let’s free him to be who he is. It would be just so beautiful.
Donald Trump picking himself would be different than any other president, yet I could see Trump choosing himself. He loves himself and thinks he is the best person in the world.
Your Thoughts on Drumpf’s V.P. (Serious and Snarky)
I am fascinated with Trump and the entire presidential race this year. This article caught my eye because Trump's V.P. is going to be an interesting choice.
To gain more data on the auroras, the Hubble Space Telescope has been staring at Jupiter for 45 minutes every day for the past month. At Earth, auroras light up when solar wind particles slam into molecules of air near the polar regions. At Jupiter, the charged particles come mostly from a different source: the volcanos of Io. Jupiter’s powerful magnetic fields then accelerate the particles into the planet’s atmosphere.
It is very cool to see that Earth is not the only planet in our solar system to have auroras. Also, Jupiter's auroras are beautiful. I loved learning how the auroras are created.
As NASA’s Juno spacecraft closes in for its Monday arrival at Jupiter, many other eyes are also staring at the solar system’s largest planet.
I am extremely interested with all things space. So an article about our solar system's largest planet got me very excited. I do not know much about Jupiter.
After all, no one actually testifies to the 2:36 timing at trial. This comes from the prosecutor’s narrative alone. The problem is, if it is the 3:15 call, that really messes with Jay’s testimony about where they were and what they were doing that afternoon.
Once again Jay's testimony is put into question and Koenig seems even more skeptical of Jay. Her skepticism makes me question Jay even more. So Koenig is using pathos because she is using her influence and the audiences trusts her opinion.
No it’s not because they’re saying that’s where the 2:36 call comes from is that pay phone at Best Buy.
Koenig keeps repeating the "It's not a small detail" because she knows how important it is to the case. Also, this fact would have completely changed the case and it makes Koenig question Jays testimony even more than she already does.
“Merkel has basically taken an approach of ‘We shouldn’t rush,’ and is looking at things calmly — which is very much her style,” said Daniela Schwarzer, the director of the Europe program at the German Marshall Fund in Berlin.
Merkel is approaching the crisis very well by being calm and thinking through the crisis. Also, author is affirming that the speaker is a credible source.
The four largest political groups in the European Parliament are planning a motion to urge Britain to leave as quickly as possible and “avoid damaging delay,
It does not make sense to me that the European Union would be pushing Britain to leave the quickly. I think that they would be trying to convince the UK to stay.
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I am fascinated with the European Union and Britain's decision to leave it.
Plenty of people I talked to said when they heard Jay was wrapped up in a murder, it didn’t surprise them. Adnan, they said no way, shocking. But Jay? Not so shocking. People also said they couldn’t square Jay feeling threatened by Adnan. The dynamic of that just seemed wrong to them.
Koenig is explaining how the character of Jay was not the best. In high school he was known to be a sketchy guy and not the best influence on other students. So, other students were not surprised to see Jay part of a murder. Koenig is using ethos.
I wanted to know, from Stella Armstrong, why she voted to convict Adnan Syed. She immediately talked about Jay, that she believed him.
Koenig is using Stella Armstrong to show how charismatic Jay was on stand. Also, she uses Stella to prove that Jay was a very important and influential witness.
how can it be a strong case and how can he be a great witness if there’s stuff that’s not true, or unexplained.
Koenig uses logic to convince the audience that Jay is not a good witness and the case may not be strong either.
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