Yesterday’s Colorado report by the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area finds marijuana-positive traffic fatalities, hospitalizations, marijuana use and illegal market activity have increased since legalization:

• Drug-driving went from killing roughly 1 person every 6.5 days to every 2.5 days
• Marijuana deaths doubled
• Regular marijuana use among the general population rose 45%
• Marijuana use in Colorado is over 85% higher than the US
• Youth marijuana use is 54% higher than the national average
• Highway seizures of Colorado marijuana rose 39%.