The session was titled "Is Big Marijuana the Next Big Tobacco?" at the Aspen Ideas Festival's focus on health Thursday night, but the two featured speakers insisted there is no question.

Ben Cort, of the Center for Dependency, Addiction and Rehabilitation in Denver, and Kevin Sabet, director of the Drug Policy Institute at the University of Florida, predicted that Colorado will rue the day it approved Amendment 64 to legalize marijuana use.

They contended before a crowd at Belly Up that big business already is moving in on Colorado's marijuana business, and its marketing expertise will get kids and young adults hooked on pot.

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