In 2000, Colorado bought a pig in a poke. We truly didn’t know what we were getting. Can we finally admit it? It may have seemed like a good thing in 2000. We voted to legalize the use of marijuana for certain medical conditions that were known to be accompanied by chronic pain, nausea and […]
Dr. Mark B. Johnson
Special to The Colorado Sun
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Opinion: Why fighting epidemics is not left to politicians in Colorado
There is no nice way to say it. Dr. Florence Sabin and the Health Committee of the Colorado State Post-War Planning Committee in 1947 did not trust Colorado’s politicians to care for the public’s health. History supported their skepticism. The health of Colorado was abysmal. More than 40% of Colorado draftees for World War II were […]