{"id":7379,"date":"2017-05-04T21:20:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2638563&amp;preview_id=2638563"},"modified":"2017-05-04T21:20:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:20:26","slug":"jared-polis-to-n-j-politician-boulder-not-filled-with-stoned-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/jared-polis-to-n-j-politician-boulder-not-filled-with-stoned-zombies\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Polis to N.J. politician: Boulder not filled with stoned zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/jared-polis-to-n-j-politician-boulder-not-filled-with-stoned-zombies\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: May 4, 2017, 11:58 am \u2022 Updated: May 4, 2017, 11:58 am<span class=\"single-comments-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/05\/04\/jared-polis-boulder-weed-zombies\/78968\/#disqus_thread\" class=\"commentsNameLink\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <strong>John Bear<\/strong>, <em> Daily Camera<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jared Polis had some choice words (some might even say shade) in a letter he penned to a New Jersey assemblyman who made unkind remarks about Boulder \u2014 specifically that the Pearl Street Mall is overrun with the undead, who are not only dirty but zoned out on recreational weed.<\/p>\n<p>An article posted on Tuesday in the New Jersey Herald asked nine candidates for the state assembly their views on recreational pot. The Democratic and Green Party candidates support it. The Republicans oppose it.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Assemblyman Parker Space, a Republican, took it a step further, however, and told the story of one of his constituent\u2019s visits to Boulder and \u201chow disgusting he found it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople lying in the walkable town center, stoned, dirty and like zombies that you practically had to walk over,\u201d Space recounted to the Herald. \u201cWhat\u2019s worse is that some actually had their children with them. He told me not to let this happen to Sussex County.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polis took issue with the Space\u2019s comments and responded in kind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounds like your constituent might have visited our iconic Pearl Street Mall during our Halloween \u2018Mall Crawl,\u2019 which is the only time that zombies are found in our central downtown area,\u201d Polis wrote in a letter dated Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote that the Pearl Street Mall is a popular and safe tourist destination, the center of Boulder\u2019s downtown commerce and offers \u201cexcellent food, talented buskers and nightlife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, yes, in our town we do bring our children to Pearl Street,\u201d Polis continued. He sent a photograph of his son along with the correspondence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would also note that you can clearly see in the background that the mall is not disgusting,\u201d Polis wrote. \u201cOne final point, not only is marijuana smoking not allowed on our mall, we don\u2019t even allow cigarette smoking. We are a clean living town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The congressman summed up by pointing out that legal marijuana has brought 23,000 jobs and generated $200 million in tax revenue to Colorado. He offered to hook up Space with local police agencies, business owners and members of the health care community \u201cto learn more about our actual experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that you and your family are able to visit soon,\u201d Polis wrote in closing. \u201cI look forward to showing you our beautiful town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/news\/boulder\/ci_30965532\/jared-polis-chides-new-jersey-legislator-characterization-boulder\" rel=\"nofollow\">This story was first published on DailyCamera.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jared Polis had some choice words for a New Jersey assemblyman who said the Pearl Street Mall is overrun with dirty undead zoned out on weed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2163,6811,854,6813,77,5667,9,69,5019,7099,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[4731,6816,3427,6818,2655,5673,2648,5022,7100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}