Amendment 64: Marijuana Legalization and Implications for Schools
Harvard & Yale Education Speaker Series
Coloradans are just beginning to see the complexity of implementing Amendment 64, which proves to be one of the most radical marijuana laws in the world as no other modern nation has ever legalized commercial marijuana production. While voters approved marijuana legalization to provide much needed revenues for our schools, the regulation and implementation of laws may prove too costly. Will schools and Colorado tax payers end up financing increased marijuana use? How will the wide-spread legalization of "adult-use" marijuana impact our students and communities? Come be apart of this important public policy issue.
Speakers include:
Diane Carlson-Robinson, HKS'85
Dr. Christian Thurstone, Amendment 64 Task Force member
Representative Jonathan Singer, House District 11, and member of the Joint Select Committee on the Implementation of A64 Task Force Recommendations
Date: March 28 THURSDAY
TIME: 6:30PM - 8:00PM
Location: Colorado Free University: 7653 E 1st Pl, Denver, CO 80230
(registrants will receive an email with directions, parking, and room instructions)
About Harvard & Yale Speaker Series
Harvard & Yale Education Speaker Series was recently established to focus on critical education-related issues in Colorado. Our goals are to
- Provide a space for our alumni and friends to engage in a lively and invigorating discussion, and
- Identify areas where we may be part of the solution.
Location will be announce on Tuesday, March 26 to registrants. It will be held around Lowry.
We invite all Ivy alumni and concerned citizens to join and contribute to the conversation.
We look forward to having you there!
Speaker Bios
Diane Carlson-Robinson, HKS’85
Diane is the co-founder of Bravetracks, a Colorado nonprofit committed to connecting teens and young adults to opportunities and empowering information. Diane has extensive experience in private and public initiatives, coalition building, coaching, counseling and leadership training for youth and adults. She founded and ran a successful human resource staffing company based in New York City for more than 12 years. After relocating to Colorado, she has held executive positions in several nonprofit organizations and has joined and led initiatives to support the state’s public school systems.
Dr. Christian Thurstone
Chris is board-certified in general, child and adolescent and addictions psychiatry. He is medical director of one of Colorado’s largest youth substance-abuse-treatment clinics and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Denver, where he conducts research on youth substance use and addiction. In 2010, he completed five years of mentored research training through the National Institute on Drug Abuse/American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry K12 Research Program in Substance Abuse. Chris currently serves as president of the Colorado Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Society and as a team physician serving the National Football League. In June 2012, the United States Congress awarded him the title: U.S. Army Major. He is honored to treat American service members who need mental healthcare as an Army Reserves officer in the Combat Stress Unit of the 807th Medical Command.
Representative Jonathan Singer
Representative Singer has spent the last 16 years working with Colorado’s most vulnerable families, most recently with child protections and family services in Boulder County. Prior to working with Boulder County, he worked for the Denver Office of Economic Development, helping to get families back to work and off of government assistance. Having worked with Colorado’s most vulnerable, Representative Singer has seen first hand how Colorado families are hurting and he brings that experience in protecting our kids, serving the elderly, and assisting families in need to the State Capitol.
A graduate of Colorado State University, Representative Singer earned his bachelors in 2001 and his Master's in Social Work in 2003. He has been a volunteer in the community for most of his life — from sitting on the Longmont Planning and Zoning Commission to volunteering for organizations such as the CSU Drug and Alcohol Task Force and the Boulder County Safe House. He met his wife, Allison, while volunteering at the Boulder Public Library while they were both in high school.