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Welcome to Pueblo, Colorado: the 'pot rush' town for the marijuana industry

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Welcome to Pueblo, Colorado: the 'pot rush' town for the marijuana industry [1]
Article Date: 
Monday, October 19, 2015

Tags:

  • Colorado [2]
  • Pueblo [3]
  • homeless [4]
  • medicaid [5]

The overstuffed vehicles parked outside Pueblo’s Posada, a nonprofit organization that helps homeless families, have license plates from as far away as South Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida and Texas.
Those families have come in what social service agencies here see as a perfect storm: legal marijuana, Colorado’s Medicaid expansion (which extends coverage to all qualified adults under the 2010 Affordable Care Act), and Pueblo’s ranking as one of the least expensive [6] cities to live in the US.
Is this what we want in Florida?

If you think legalizing marijuana won't affect you... Think Again.


Source URL: http://www.rethinkpot.org/welcome-pueblo-colorado-pot-rush-town-marijuana-industry

Links
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/19/pueblo-colorado-legal-marijuana-industry-migration
[2] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/colorado%2A
[3] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/pueblo
[4] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/homeless
[5] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/medicaid
[6] http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/real-estate/T006-S001-10-cheapest-u-s-cities-to-live-in/index.html