A ‘Trail of Broken Lives’ Tells the Real Story of Colorado’s Legalized Marijuana
By: Gazette Editorial Board | Commentary, The Denver Gazette
Society once vilified marijuana. Later generations of hipsters laughed off the stigma.
Now, mounting evidence has brought things full circle — vindicating the psychoactive drug’s original critics after all.
Today’s high-potency pot — legalized for recreational use in Colorado in 2012 and in over two dozen other states since then — is leaving a trail of destruction. Whether it’s marijuana’s devastating impact on the mental health of our youth, or on the safety of our highways, it’s drawing overdue scrutiny that is justified by hard data.
Pot’s toll in traffic fatalities in particular is back in the news. A new study by Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, looked at driver autopsy results from car crashe...
