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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The information presented here should be interpreted with caution. The majority of the data should be considered baseline and preliminary, in large part because data sources vary considerably in terms of what exists historically. Consequently, it is difficult to draw conclusions about the potential effects of marijuana legalization and commercialization on public safety, public health, or youth outcomes, and this may always be the case due to the...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
This report is organized as follows: Section One describes the mandate to report per Senate Bill 13-283, data sources and the data collection methods used, the history of marijuana laws in Colorado, and the federal response. Section Two focuses on the public safety impacts of marijuana legalization while Section 3 presents information concerning public health. Section 4 presents impacts on youth, Section 5 provides additional information, and Section...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
This report presents initial efforts toward monitoring the changes in marijuana use patterns, potential health effects of marijuana use, and the most recent scientific findings associated with marijuana use to help facilitate evidence-based policy decisions and science-based public education campaigns.
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED) is tasked with licensing and regulating the Medical and Retail Marijuana industries in Colorado. The Division implements legislation, develops rules, conducts background investigations, issues business licenses and enforces compliance mandates in order to maintain a robust regulatory structure. MED promotes transparency and clarity for all stakeholders by utilizing a highly collaborative process through which...
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2020.
Description
From fiscal year 2016-2017 through 2019-2020, seven of the eighteen DCJ-funded Colorado juvenile diversion programs received additional resources from the Marijuana Tax Fund to address substance use among the youth their programs serve. While all juvenile diversion programs worked to address the needs of youth in their programs, these seven programs received additional funds to explicitly support substance use-related training and certifications for...