Fentanyl Seizure Skyrockets in Colorado Despite Marijuana Legalization

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Evidence continues to show that marijuana legalization does not reduce drug problems and drug-related crime.

Earlier this summer the U.S. Department of Justice announced that law enforcement in Colorado had seized more illegal fentanyl in the first five months of 2022 than in all of 2021.

Keith Weis, Executive Director from the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program, told the press, “When we analyze data that indicates increases in drug seizures and dramatic rises in fatal overdoses, it becomes alarmingly apparent that the user market for illicit fentanyl in the state [Colorado] is expanding.”

There is a myth that legalizing marijuana reduces crime and alleviates the demand for opioids and other drugs, but that simply does not seem to be the case.

Colorado was the first state to sell so-called “recreational marijuana.” In spite of that, illicit drug use has skyrocketed there.

In 2020 law enforcement seized more than five and a half tons of illicit marijuana in Colorado intended for the black market.

A report from the Oregon-Idaho High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area this year shows the amount of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, illicit marijuana, fentanyl, prescription drugs, and other illicit drugs intercepted by law enforcement increased dramatically from 2018 to 2021 despite marijuana being legal in Oregon.

Legalizing marijuana does not decrease drug-related crime, and it does not alleviate drug problems. If anything, it seems to make those problems worse.

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Children’s Books at Rogers Public Library Contain Pro-LGBT Material, Sexual Content

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The Rogers Public Library’s catalog includes children’s books that are overtly pro-LGBT and contain sexual content.

Picture books and board books like ‘Twas the Night Before PRIDE, What Are Your Words?, and Bye Bye Binary promote transgender ideology to preschoolers and young children.

The library’s online catalog indicates that these books are available among other children’s picture books at the Rogers Public Library.

The children’s section also hosts the book Sex Is A Funny Word by Cory Silverberg. The library describes Sex Is A Funny Word as, “A comic book for kids that includes children and families of all makeups, orientations, and gender identities, Sex Is a Funny Word is an essential resource about bodies, gender, and sexuality for children ages 8 to 10 as well as their parents and caregivers. Much more than the ‘facts of life’ or ‘the birds and the bees,’ Sex Is a Funny Word opens up conversations between young people and their caregivers in a way that allows adults to convey their values and beliefs while providing information about boundaries, safety, and joy. . . . Sex Is a Funny Word reimagines ‘sex talk’ for the twenty-first century.”

The library catalog also includes titles such as Making A Baby — a book written with help from LGBT leaders that “covers sex, sperm and egg donation, IUI, IVF, surrogacy and adoption” — and When Aidan Became A Brother — a book about a little girl who decides to become a boy.

These books are intended for children as young as five years old.

Sex education material and pro-LGBT picture books don’t belong on the same shelves as Goodnight Moon. Families should be able to take their children to the library without worrying about what their kids might accidentally find in the children’s section.

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident.

Parents have found graphic sexual material and pro-LGBT books in children’s sections at public libraries across Arkansas.

So what can families do if they find pro-LGBT children’s books in their libraries?

Communities can take steps to remove objectionable material from their local libraries.

Library boards and librarians have leeway to establish selection criteria and make decisions about the kinds of material available on the library’s shelves.

Library patrons generally can use a Material Reconsideration Form to ask libraries to remove inappropriate material.

And voters can call on their elected officials to enact laws protecting children from objectionable material in public libraries.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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