ASPEN — Pitkin County commissioners on Wednesday denied a local woman s application to open a kitchen at the Aspen Business Center that would have manufactured marijuana-infused edibles.
The (marijuana) legalization train left the station at a good clip, and I m not sure our communities have caught up, said Commissioner Rachel Richards. The messaging is this isn t a drug. This isn t serious. It s just a piece of candy.
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And that message – which Richards said was driven home by a 90-minute discussion commissioners had last week about marijuana edibles with Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo, county staff members and officials from valley public health, anti-drug and youth organizations – is the wrong one to send to the community s children.
Nobody puts a bottle of hard alcohol in a Halloween basket, Richards said. Things that look like candy, smell like candy and taste like candy are too dangerous to my mind.
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