“We’ve seen an increase in hospitalizations, an increase in emergency room admissions, and those statistics aren’t made up,” Gorman said. Gorman said the legalization of marijuana has led to more marijuana-related traffic crashes, more fatalities, and an increase in illegal use among minors. Thomas Gorman is Director of the Rocky Mountain High Drug Intensity Trafficking Area, a group that works with law enforcement to combat drug trafficking and drug related violence. In a different building, miles away from the Colorado Harvest, sits a different man with a different opinion on how things have changed in Colorado. “The job market is just absolutely booming, unemployment is among the lowest in the nation here in Colorado,” he said. “Now, they’re all at capacity and all the store fronts are filled downtown."Ĭullen, who employs 85 people at his company, said Michiganders should expect a similar economic boom if voters get the chance to decriminalize marijuana. “These were all vacant warehouses,” he said while walking through the grow house where Colorado Harvest cultivates marijuana. CEO Tim Cullen, said the positive economic effects of marijuana legalization have gone above and beyond his expectations. “I’ve had customers that range from 21-year-olds who want to try and get their first experience with it, all to way to an elderly lady that comes in.”ĭrew’s boss, Colorado Harvest Co. “I’ve had doctors, lawyers, nurse, teachers, construction workers, and pro-athletes come in here,” said Chad Drew, a sales manager at Colorado Harvest Co. In Colorado, those involved in the recreational marijuana industry said treating marijuana like alcohol was the right move. In Michigan, as of Monday, more than 360,000 signatures collected by the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol campaign were submitted to the Secretary of State’s office.
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