A dark U. Colorado king has criticized a battle by the school’s School of Public Health as “racist” due to its selection of pictures and “incomplete knowledge”.
Wanda James,” the first Black woman elected to the board in over 44 years” and first African-American to own a cannabis company ( along with her husband ), noted she’s “push]ed ] for years to include more inclusive images” regarding marijuana, but in this case CU used the “most negative connotations”, Westword reports.
According to the report, the images” exhibit a Black infant, child, and teen all dealing with the effects of having a pregnant mother who smoked marijuana.”
They also note marijuana consequences include “impaired mental development”, “lower results in verbal argument and memory”, and” problems with desire power, reading and habits”.
A slide featuring the pictures, since deleted, was shared electronically by the party The Chai on THC, which was founded in 2021″ to suppress young use of focus THC products”.
James said” For sixteen times I’ve been fighting the bad implications of racism in the War on Drugs and, more particularly, cannabis. This day, it kind of hit separately, because I am a king at this school”.
The use of dark characters in the pictures, according to James Corbett of Inititum Health, “was not to convey that knowledge at the cost of other races,” according to Corbett of the company that produced the campaign materials.
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He did, however, understand” the traditional interpretation” and added that were “multiple types” of the slide show featuring characters of various races with the same data.
After January 28th, THC’s conception page changed the figures ‘ races from black to white.
James ( pictured ), said while she’s” not trying to tell pregnant mothers or children to use marijuana”, claimed the campaign’s “information is wrong” and “has been debunked for over a decade”.
She noted the first picture in Tea on THC’s slide state” Research Needed: Cannabis Risks in Breastfeeding Questionable” and” Unknown Effect: Consequences of THC on Infants Unknown”.
James remarked,” This is not befitting a analysis academy to publish information that is not scientific.”
A 2021 assessment connected to a bill from the state legislature examined over 66, 000 marijuana-related experiments, but found “zero related reports related to pregnancy”. Corbett said he backed more research on the subject, but that if we’re unaware of the risks for expectant mothers, we may steer clear of taking the drug when carrying a child.
James expressed her desire for the entire Tea on THC plan to be abandoned and the remaining funds used to fund “grants for weed business owners who qualify for social capital licenses.”
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IMAGES: Westword.com, CU Regent Wanda James/X
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