Health committee  Again, the lack of data collection has been very problematic for us here in Colorado. To get some baseline information is really critical to be able to measure increases and trends, to really be able to talk about how marijuana legalization is impacting us from a public safety st

Health committee  I think there is an opportunity where this could help, but what we have heard here in Colorado over a period of time is that if we increase the use of medical marijuana for pain treatment we'll see a decrease in opioid use, and we haven't seen that. As I mentioned before, Colorad

Health committee  In Colorado we have several different layers of legalization. We have medical commercial, we have recreational commercial, and then we have the caregivers and patients who grow their own marijuana plants in a residential setting. Then under amendment 64, we have the ability for

Health committee  Thank you to the committee for the honour to speak today. My name is Marco Vasquez, and I'm a retired police chief in Colorado. My background is over 40 years in Colorado law enforcement, including 32 years with the Denver Police Department. During my time at the Denver Police De