Colorado drug investigator to Utah: Beware of medical marijuana

Legalizing medical marijuana would open the door to a host of problems, including abuse by children and deaths from psychotic reactions, a Colorado drug-law enforcer warned Utah lawmakers Wednesday.

Legalizing medical marijuana would open the door to a host of problems, including abuse by children and deaths from psychotic reactions, a Colorado drug-law enforcer warned Utah lawmakers Wednesday.

Jim Gerhardt, vice president of the Colorado Drug Investigators Association, provided the Health and Human Services Interim Committee with a litany of woes Utah's neighboring state has experienced since legalizing medical marijuana.

He showed pictures of people who have committed suicide after using pot or who have been killed by high family members. He played a chilling videotape interview of a cavalier teenager who had killed a motorcyclist with his own car while stoned. A house blew up because of improper electrical use for a grow operation, he said.

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