Colorado Newsline
Proposed cash fund would reimburse organizations for mental health, substance use resources
Flowers lean on a fence surrounding the King Soopers supermarket in Boulder where a day earlier, March 22, 2021, a shooter killed 10 people. (Carl Payne for Colorado Newsline)
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Colorado mobilized its State Emergency Operations Center to respond to the public health emergency.
The SEOC with the help of Federal Emergency Management Agency funding worked with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to expand health care capacity, launch dozens of community testing sites and process countless COVID-19 tests, and administer and distribute millions of coronavirus vaccines.
After almost disappearing during a lengthy debate over the potency of legal marijuana products, a bill solidifying medical marijuana and dispensary practices embraced during the COVID-19 pandemic survived an early vote in a legislative committee.
Both telemedicine for medical marijuana patients and online ordering of legal pot have been allowed in Colorado for over a year, thanks to executive orders issued by Governor Jared Polis in March 2020. Those orders will eventually end, but Representative Matt Gray s House Bill 1058 proposes to make the practices permanent. Still, the measure has a long hill to climb.
Gray s bill, which was introduced nearly three months ago, could still become ensnared in an ongoing debate over the amount of THC in commercial marijuana concentrates. While a draft of a measure to limit potency was leaked to