Denver has banned the sale of flavored tobacco products used by so many smokers to kick or replace the nicotine drug habit via cigarettes, but it’s okay to still buy cigarettes.
And marijuana.
And beginning in January, psilocybin. Presumably unflavored.
The Denver City Council voted 11-1 Monday with Councilman Kevin Flynn as the lone opponent to ruining local businesses in favor of those just outside city limits.
From the Denver Post:
The council majority brushed aside arguments from convenience store and smoke shop owners facing potentially steep revenue losses and warnings about the potential of a black market forming for flavored products. Instead, they heeded calls from public health and children’s advocates who have decried products like strawberry mango e-cigarettes as lures that can draw young people into lifetimes of addiction.
Councilman Darrell Watson sponsored the measure claiming that 7% of Denver teens admit to using vape products.
Just FYI, nearly 12% of Denver high schoolers admitted to having used marijuana in the month before the Healthy Kids Colorado survey conducted by the state Department of Public and Health Environment.
Mayor Mike Johnson is expected to sign the measure into law.