Street marijuana dealers face the same risks and penalties if they were selling crack cocaine or other schedule 1 substances. Because they take the same risk, it is likely that the street dealer will also carry drugs other than marijuana.

The illegal street pusher takes no more risk offering more dangerous and addictive substances and therefore offers the gateway to purchase them.

Recreational cannabis is clean, controlled, monitored by law enforcement, regulated and tested. No other product is dispensed and no gateways are offered within these law-abiding establishments.

Let's keep our recreational systems in place and keep our Pueblo residents out of jeopardy. Let's keep educating and put our efforts into preventing illegal street marijuana gateway sales from occurring.

Peter Mutty

Pueblo West

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