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No, People In Colorado Are Not Using Food Stamps To Buy Pot

State Sen. Vicki Marble (R-CO)
January 13, 2014
Days after Colorado began to allow [ http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/01/01/3108561/know-buying-pot-colorado/ ] recreational marijuana businesses to legally operate in the state, a group of state legislators filed a bill [ http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics/CLICS2014A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/4ECAEFB2253EA4CB87257C300005CAFB?Open&file=037_01.pdf ] to ensure that no food stamps or public assistance funds are used at those shops. The bill comes after a county Republican party committee mistook [ http://coloradopols.com/diary/53090/spoof-site-snares-douglas-county-republicans ] a satirical news report [ http://nationalreport.net/colorado-pot-shop-accept-food-stamps-taxpayer-funded-marijuana/ ] for fact.
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Colorado State Senator Vicki Marble (R), the Senate sponsor of SB 14-037 [ http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics/CLICS2014A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/4ECAEFB2253EA4CB87257C300005CAFB?Open&file=037_01.pdf ], made national news [ http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/08/22/2508261/colorado-legislator-poverty-higher-among-black-race-because-they-eat-too-much-chicken/ ] in August when she made claims that poverty was higher among the “black race” because they eat too much chicken. State Rep. Lori Saine (R), one of the House co-sponsors of the proposal, also made headlines [ http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/09/2589551/colorado-legislator-brings-chicken/ ] when two weeks after Marble’s remarks, she showed up at a committee hearing with a box of Popeye’s chicken (a move decried by Colorado Republican Chairman Ryan Call as an “insensitive and hurtful” endorsement of Marble’s comments).
Last week, the satirical National Report [ http://nationalreport.net/ ] posted a fake story entitled “Colorado Pot Shop Accepting Food Stamps – Taxpayer Funded Marijuana for Welfare Recipients [ http://nationalreport.net/colorado-pot-shop-accept-food-stamps-taxpayer-funded-marijuana/ ].” Other stories on the site include equally false items such as “Colorado Pot Shop Attempts To Disarm Citizens With ‘Weed for Guns’ Buyback Program,” “How Obama’s EPA Is Taking Away Your 2nd Amendment,” and “U.S. Caves to Iran In Nuclear Deal. Sharia Law Now to be Taught in U.S. Universities. Qurans to be Placed in Motel Rooms.” A conservative news site picked up the story [ http://gopthedailydose.com/2014/01/06/colorado-pot-shop-accept-food-stamps-taxpayer-funded-marijuana-welfare-recipients-2/ ], apparently duped. The Douglas County Republican Committee, also apparently believing the story real, linked to the report [

Colorado Pot Shop to Accept Food Stamps – Taxpayer Funded Marijuana for Welfare Recipients http://t.co/S2SF6QuPjP #copolitics #coleg

— Douglas County GOP (@DougCOGOP) January 7, 2014

] on its Twitter feed last Tuesday.
A day later, Marble’s bill was filed in the state Senate. ...
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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/01/13/3152841/colorado-marijuana-food-stamps/ [with comments]

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