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Sep 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Mint Illinois is using a “social equity partner” to get them access to every region in Illinois’ marijuana license lottery. Why haven’t they revealed the identity of this person if social equity is to be celebrated and promoted? #ShadyLottery chicagotribune.com/marijuana/illi…
40% of current license applicants satisfy the “social equity” requirement because they hired an external party to fill this role. The Illinois Legislative Black and Latino caucuses have called for a suspension and review of the marijuana lottery.

chicagotribune.com/marijuana/illi…
If you buy all the lottery tickets, you are more likely to win. The Illinois marijuana license lottery is really about #bigmoney, not #bigequity. chicagotribune.com/marijuana/illi…
Would you still buy a ticket if you knew the lottery was rigged? A finalist for a marijuana dispensary license is also a consultant for a firm that is being paid $4.2 million by the state of Illinois to evaluate lottery applicants. @Suntimes #ShadyLottery chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2020/…

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Feb 3, 2021
Today, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment released their bi-annual “Monitoring Health Concerns Related to Marijuana in Colorado” report.

Our takeaways:
The report finds there have been significant increases in past-month and daily or near-daily use among adults, marijuana-impaired driving, exposures in children under the age of five, and use of high potency forms of the drug among high school students.
Also, despite constant statements to the contrary, after an initial reduction in use, regular youth marijuana use among those under 15 rose 14.8% in 2019 versus 2017.

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Sep 28, 2020
Today, we are pleased to announce the release of our fourth annual “Lessons Learned from Marijuana Legalization” Impact Report.

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The report is a comprehensive collection of the latest data and findings that track how marijuana legalization has affected commercialized states.

It greatly underscores the importance of slowing down the rush to commercialize marijuana in the United States.
To kick things off, the report shows that there has been a 25% increase in Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD) among 12-17-year-olds in “legal” states since the implementation of legalization.
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Sep 24, 2020
Today, we are proud to be partnering with @positivelysober and @goleadco to present the Illinois Marijuana Prevention Summit! Image
"These marijuana companies have a advertise first, apologize later mentality to marketing their products."
-@WillVJones
Marijuana legalization was supposed to somehow bring about social justice and equality...these headlines show this isn't happening.

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Sep 22, 2020
Today, the Vermont Senate advanced S. 54, a bill to commercialize marijuana in the state.

Ahead of the vote, top marijuana researchers sent Vermont Governor @GovPhilScott a letter encouraging him to continue his pro-public health stance by vetoing the bill.

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Notably, S. 54 drops a House-backed provision that would have banned marijuana industry advertising and lacks a solid, roadside saliva provision that Governor Phil Scott has insisted upon in order for him to support it.
Furthermore, the letter notes that S. 54’s inclusion of marijuana potency caps is laudable but points out that marijuana industry lobbyists have “labeled this commonsense regulation as “stupid” and promised to try and repeal these regulations should the bill be signed into law.
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Sep 16, 2020
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨

Ahead of a tentatively scheduled vote next week in the U.S. House on the MORE Act, a bill that would federally commercialize marijuana, a coalition of thirty groups sent a letter to House leadership opposing the bill.

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“Almost 200,000 Americans have lost their lives and countless others are barely making ends meet. That anyone in Congress could fathom holding so much as a meeting on marijuana legalization at this time is beyond comprehension."

-@KevinSabet
Full statement and text of the letter available here: learnaboutsam.org/coalition-of-t…
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Sep 14, 2020
On Friday, @samhsagov released the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which was packed with some key takeaways to highlight during #RecoveryMonth.

Notably, some 699,000 youth have an addiction to marijuana in 2019 – representing 187,000 new youth cases of CUD.
Overall, more than 4.8 million people aged 12 or older reported Marijuana Use Disorder in 2019, up from 4.4 million in 2018.

#RecoveryMonth
Also, past-year and past-month marijuana use among youth have increased markedly since commercialization began in several states:

Past-month use among youth aged 12-17 increased 14 percent since 2016 while past-year use among the same age group rose 10 percent.

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