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co-localnews2Carlos Santana was at Marisol Therapeutics in Pueblo West, Colorado on November 16. The meet and greet was used to help promote Santana’s new cannabis inhaler called Santana Smooth. This clever name plays off one of Santana’s most popular hits, “Smooth.” The singer is also known for songs like “Black Magic Woman” and “Maria, Maria.”

Santana spoke with 7 News while at Marisol Therapeutics. He shared how his mom used to make a cannabis salve using buds and alcohol in a jar. Santana stated, “My mother, she asked me one time if I could score some weed for her, and I was like, ‘Mom!’”

Santana also shared how effective cannabis can be at healing ailments like arthritis and rheumatism, and it’s been something that people have known for a long time. “It’s not new,” Santana stated. “People have been doing these things since before Christopher Columbus landed in here.”

Santana’s mission in joining the cannabis industry goes beyond making a profit. His new line of cannabis inhalers will ultimately make life better for those who choose to imbibe. “In the long run we want to affect consciousness with healing and give people a better quality of life physically and psychologically,” Santana said. “The world needs to know that there’s a difference between medicine and drugs. Humans make drugs in laboratories. Mother Nature makes medicine.”

“In the long run we want to affect consciousness with healing and give people a better quality of life physically and psychologically. The world needs to know that there’s a difference between medicine and drugs. Humans make drugs in laboratories. Mother Nature makes medicine.”

The dispensary was offering three different deals on the cannabis inhalers that also included edibles, wax and a hoody or t-shirt signed by Santana. While this is Santana’s first cannabis business endeavor, it definitely isn’t the first time Santana showed his alliance with the cannabis industry in both Colorado and nationwide.

Santana asked all registered voters in Pueblo County to vote against Question 200, which some refer to as Amendment 200 and was attempting to shut down cannabis businesses in the county. In a Public Service Announcement video, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Musician said, “Hi, I’m Carlos Santana, and I invite your from my heart, my sisters and brothers, vote ‘no’ on Amendment 200. Let’s go forward. Let’s make it possible to bring more education and more expansion of awareness so that every sister and brother of any age can be successful in this lifetime.”

This PSA wasn’t the first time Santana has spoken about how cannabis legalization could create funding for education. In 2009, Santana shared that he was a cannabis activist during an interview with Associated Press. “There are three things I would say to Barack Obama . . . Bring the [armed forces] brothers home and the sisters home now, legalize marijuana, and take all that money and invest it in teachers and education,” Santana said. “And you will see a transformation in America that is what is going to reunite us. I really believe that as soon as we legalize and decriminalize marijuana, we can actually afford a really good governor who won’t keep taking money away from education and teachers.”

As an outspoken advocate and new cannabis entrepreneur in Colorado, Santana joins many other celebrities who have created their own line of cannabis goods.

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