{"id":7789,"date":"2017-10-13T15:27:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T15:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2820390&amp;preview_id=2820390"},"modified":"2017-10-13T15:27:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T15:27:54","slug":"eagle-county-ballot-initiative-would-create-new-marijuana-tax-for-mental-health-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/eagle-county-ballot-initiative-would-create-new-marijuana-tax-for-mental-health-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagle County ballot initiative would create new marijuana tax for mental health funding"},"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\/eagle-county-ballot-initiative-would-create-new-marijuana-tax-for-mental-health-funding\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Oct 13, 2017, 8:29 am \u2022 Updated: Oct 13, 2017, 8:29 am<span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <strong>Randy Wyrick<\/strong>, <em> Vail Daily<\/em><\/p>\n<p>EAGLE \u2014 Suicide kills an American every 12 minutes \u2014 44,000 Americans every year and 10 in Eagle County so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink about that,\u201d said Andrew Romanoff, with Mental Health Colorado. \u201cIf someone attacked the United States and killed an American every 12 minutes and wiped out 44,000 of us in the course of a year, we would declare war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some ways, we have declared war, and this is a war we can win,\u201d Romanoff said.<\/p>\n<p>Romanoff was in town Tuesday, Oct. 10, to help proponents kick off their campaign for 1A, the ballot measure that would institute countywide sales and excise taxes on recreational marijuana to fund mental health treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Eagle County passes 1A, it will serve as a model for the rest of Colorado,\u201d Romanoff said. \u201cIt\u2019s local. It\u2019s important. It\u2019s a matter of life and death. If we don\u2019t address this problem, people will die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more of this story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/pot-tax-proponents-open-campaign-to-fund-mental-health-facilities-treatment\/\">VailDaily.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/pot-tax-proponents-open-campaign-to-fund-mental-health-facilities-treatment\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">This story was first published on VailDaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Eagle County, Colorado ballot measure 1A would institute countywide sales and excise taxes on recreational marijuana to fund mental health treatment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,6813,77,5667,9,7300,5019,1,3,1566,2379,61,1736],"tags":[6816,6818,2655,5673,7305,5022,4134,4974],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789"}],"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=7789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}