Marijuana advocate rejects “scare tactics” over deaths, fourth graders selling pot at school

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Over the past few weeks, critics of marijuana legalization have drawn attention to several news stories they see as demonstrating the dangers of more accessible weed. First, the death of a college student and the murder of a mom were linked to marijuana edibles, and now, the local and national media is giving big play to reports about Greeley ten-year-olds who sold pot on the playground of their elementary school.
Mason Tvert, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project and one of the main proponents for Colorado’s Amendment 64, sees such reactions as part of an age-old practice of demonizing cannabis that won’t derail the push for progressive marijuana policies here and beyond. Denver Westword has more.

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