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Kayvan Khalatbari

 Name: Kayvan Khalatbari

Occupation: Entrepreneur. Co-owner of Denver Relief, Denver
Relief Consulting, Sexy Pizza and Sexpot Comedy.

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Name: Kayvan Khalatbari

Occupation: Entrepreneur. Co-owner of Denver Relief, Denver
Relief Consulting, Sexy Pizza and Sexpot Comedy.

When and
how did you become a cannabis advocate?

I moved out to Denver from Lincoln, Nebraska 10
years ago. I was looking for something to do. I volunteered a lot back in
Nebraska. I didn’t know anybody when I moved out to Denver. I didn’t know
anyone and I was looking for a way to make some friends. My brother was online
and found a group called Safer that had just passed initiatives on CU and CSU
campuses to equalize cannabis possession with alcohol possession. I heard they
were coming to Denver back in 2005. I met the guys from Safer, and they really
are the heart of the cannabis movement out here. I volunteered for them and
started collecting signatures, thousands of them. I dressed as “Chickenlooper” and
harassed the then-Mayor Hickenlooper at his town hall meetings when he was
going for reelection.

Why did
you dress as Chickenlooper?

We simply wanted to know why he was so
hypocritical. Why he didn’t like cannabis when he has made his fortune and fame
off of selling booze. Something that is much more dangerous. The CDC recently
came out with a study that one in seven Coloradans die from alcohol related
consumption. Whereas, that does not happen with cannabis. His hypocrisy is
damning and that’s why I am getting back out there and doing it again.

How has
cannabis benefited your life?

When I was 15 I was antisocial. I was having trouble
in school, skipping a lot and I started smoking cannabis. After that, I gained
an attention span. I was thoughtful about things and realized there were
potential drawbacks to my actions. Cannabis helped me think in that manner. I
understood the value of what I needed to do in school. Did I love it? No, but I
needed to do well enough to get out of it. It helped me focus. It changed my
life and I’ve been a daily user ever since.

If you
could change one thing about the way cannabis is viewed what would it be
?
I wish I could go to places like Alabama,
Arkansas and Utah and get it over with. Change what we have already changed
here in Colorado, like the idea that cannabis users are lazy, not contributors
and that they have their own agenda. I think that is the furthest thing from
the truth. I have known every profession under the sun, every race, every
socioeconomic status, everybody smokes cannabis. There is no one who is void of
its use. I think people need to know that. That it’s that common. It is that
normal. I hate that word, but it’s that normal. It’s not as harmful as alcohol,
something that considered not be “normal” as well.

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