No MJ in GJ

05/15/2021

🗣️ We want your feedback!

👂 In response to the April election, the City of Grand Junction is putting together regulations for ma*****na stores. City Council wants to hear your perspective on the details.

Learn about the process, take the survey, and attend up to seven public listening sessions over the coming weeks. Find all the info at GJCity.org/Ma*****naRegulation.

04/01/2021

Protect our kids by having NO SHOPS in GJ! Know the facts.

Youth past month ma*****na use increased 20 percent in the two-year average
(2013/2014) since Colorado legalized recreational ma*****na compared to the
two-year average prior to legalization (2011/2012).
o Nationally youth past month ma*****na use declined 4 percent during the
same timeframe.
• The latest 2013/2014 results show Colorado youth ranked #1 in the nation for past
month ma*****na use, up from #4 in 2011/2012 and #14 in 2005/2006.
• Colorado youth past month ma*****na use for 2013/2014 was 74 percent higher
than the national average compared to 39 percent higher in 2011/2012.
• The top ten states for the highest rate of current ma*****na use were all medical
ma*****na states whereas the bottom ten were all non-medical-ma*****na states.
• In school year 2015/2016, 62 percent of all drug expulsions and suspensions were
for ma*****na violations.

Source: https://www.sheriffs.org/sites/default/files/2016%20FINAL%20Legalization%20of%20Ma*****na%20in%20Colorado%20The%20Impact.pdf?ftag=MSF0951a18

03/31/2021

Listen to this new radio ad on our website! Educate yourself on the numbers, vote wisely. NO on 2A & 2B!

"....we're not buying your reasoning. Spend more of that $220M budget that already includes $10M for parks....Palisade collected $1.5MM in pot taxes. You're going to collect $2.9MM, twice as much? Look at the risk and forget your greed."

https://www.nomjgj.com/

03/30/2021

Make sure to return your ballots by mail or to one of these locations! Mark "NO" on 2A and 2B! Protect our kids and community!

03/25/2021

Have you voted yet? We urge you to vote NO on 2A & 2B! Protect our kids and our community!

03/25/2021

The issue, Reed said, isn’t a lack of money but rather a misconception about how ma*****na taxes were to be spent, mostly because of the campaign to pass Amendment 64.

“No one really read the fine print,” Reed said

https://www.cannabisbusinessexecutive.com/2019/02/wheres-all-that-ma*****na-money-colorados-pot-dollars-help-schools-but-maybe-not-as-much-as-you-think/

READ THE FINE PRINT Grand Junction. Don't be fooled.

No on 2A & 2B!

Amendment 64’s promise to fix schools is kept, but in measured amounts A big part of the 2012 pitch to convince Colorado voters they should legalize recreational ma*****na was that the tax money would fix their local schools. Five years after the first sale occurred on Jan. 1, 2014, that tax money...

03/23/2021

No On 2A & 2B!

1. For every $1 gain in tax revenue, $8.95 spent in social costs!

2. The perceived “benefits” from sales tax DO NOT outweigh the risks

3. GJ City budget is $213MM, Parks & Rec Budget is $10MM, a TINY revenue increase of 1.3%

03/22/2021

Is this really the message we want to send our teens...... that any amount of tax dollars are worth their health and safety?!

Vote NO on 2A & 2B

03/20/2021

https://www.nomjgj.com/

03/18/2021

1. For every $1 gain in tax revenue, $8.95 spent in social costs!

2. The perceived “benefits” from sales tax DO NOT outweigh the risks

3. GJ City budget is $213MM, Parks & Rec Budget is $10MM, a TINY revenue increase of 1.3%

https://www.nomjgj.com/

03/18/2021

No Pot Shops in GJ!

1. High school students report their usual method of use as dabbing concentrate at rates nearly 3 times higher than adults.
4. High-school-aged youth are twice as likely to drive after using ma*****na than afterusing alcohol.
2. Ma*****na is the #1 substance found in youths aged 15-19 who died by su***de.

3. The number of vehicle fatalities where ma*****na was found in a driver’s systemincreased 153% between 2013 and 2017.

4. High-school aged youth are twice as likely to drive after using ma*****na than afterusing alcohol.

03/17/2021

MJ use lowers blood flow to the brain, specifically memory formation!

Source: https://www.amenclinics.com/blog/amen-research-ma*****na-affects-blood-flow-brain/

Vote NO on 2A & 2B