Group puts up billboard questioning marijuana potency

DENVER - Anyone who drives by Sports Authority Field at Mile High this week may notice a new billboard about marijuana.

A group called "Smart Colorado," known for opposing legal access to marijuana, debuted a billboard Monday on Federal Blvd.

The billboard reads, in part, "Mom, is today's pot a hard drug?" The group hopes the billboard leads to conversations that ultimately lead to research on THC potency.

"We feel like it's really important to have a national conversation about the increasing marijuana potencies and health effects," Diane Carlson, co-founder of Smart Colorado said. "It's long overdue. It's something that came up in the Democratic debate and we hope it gets asked at the GOP debate in Boulder this Wednesday."

A group with the opposite mission, the "Marijuana Policy Project," made its own version of Smart Colorado's billboard today. It reads, "no son, today's pot is still less harmful than...

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