(Denver Post) The Colorado Drug Investigators Association wrote in a letter last week to the Regional Transportation District board of directors that it worries that the ads — which promote the KushCon cannabis convention — send the wrong message.
“Advertising a marijuana conference, on the sides of Colorado’s main source of public transportation, will do anything but prevent further drug abuse,” Jerry Peters, the association’s vice president and an investigator with the North Metro Drug Task Force, wrote in the letter.
The First Amendment gives us the right to peaceably assemble. No laws are being broken. You may find it distasteful, Jerry, since the convention surely appeals to those who are using marijuana, medically or illegally.
On Friday, Daniel Brennan, president of the Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police, said his organization was drafting a letter to send to RTD over the ads.
“We’re sending mixed messages, I think, to the public and to the youth on this,” said Brennan, who is also the Wheat Ridge police chief.
What is the mixed message, Chief Brennan? That you say marijuana is deadly dangerous and anyone who tries it is on the fast track to heroin addiction and that KushCon presents businesses, speakers, experts, and consumers that know you’re lying? Is that mixed message that people ought to trust cops yet cops continually lie about marijuana?
If we are really so concerned about sending messages to the youth, explain to me Coors Field. Explain how we see ad after ad for beer and Viagra as we watch the Denver Broncos play. My guess is that far more youth look up to baseball and football players telling them how cool it is to drink than ever take their guidance from bus ads.
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Amen to that last paragraph.
“If we are really so concerned about sending messages to the youth, explain to me Coors Field. Explain how we see ad after ad for beer and Viagra as we watch the Denver Broncos play. My guess is that far more youth look up to baseball and football players telling them how cool it is to drink than ever take their guidance from bus ads.”