E-City Beat recently received a photo of Great Falls Mayor candidate Jasmine Taylor holding a half-full weed pipe and lighter – apparently this photo has been making the rounds on social media.
That Taylor is a weed user is not too surprising, recreational marijuana use is legal and there are adults in Great Falls who partake. Taylor seems unconcerned that local voters know about her weed use, here’s a post from one of her campaign Facebook pages:
On October 20 at 7:00 PM the Great Falls Alliance for Youth is co-sponsoring, along with Neighborhood Council 5, a Great Falls municipal candidates forum, which Taylor will presumably attend.
Alliance for Youth states the following on their Facebook page, “Alliance for Youth, through strong stakeholder partnerships, continues to champion prevention and reduction of underage drinking and illegal drug use, abuse and dependency as well as youth engagement in a myriad of other health comprising behaviors.”
With that mission in mind, maybe the Alliance for Youth representative should ask Taylor and the other candidates the following questions at their forum:
- Do you think it’s responsible for civic leaders to give young people in Great Falls the impression that marijuana use is healthy and appropriate behavior?
- Do you think marijuana is a gateway drug?
- Do you support random drug testing, including for marijuana, for City and other public employees who operate work vehicles and equipment?
- Do you think an elected City official who publicly uses, condones, or promotes the use of marijuana reflects the values of a majority of Great Falls citizens?
She won’t get my vote!
No way No how…
If
They Drink Alcohol Legally and it Smoking Marijuana Fallow Legally in Suit There Nothing Wrong with Indulging
My problem with addicts, and I come from a family of addicts, is they want everyone else to pick up the pieces of their lives when it goes to crap. Whether that is family members or society having to pay for their issues financially. I left my family and joined the Navy to get away from all of them. Now the left legalizes weed. They expect people like me to pay for their addictions while saying “its not their fault…its someone elses…” Give me a break. Now this idiot wants to be mayor and make the rest of us pay for the societal ills.
Still has my vote……
I feel like great falls has bigger problems than if a mayoral candidate smokes weed or not. Most of Montana smokes now, hell even my mom has a gummy now and then. Stop grasping your pearls, it’s not the end of the world. Grow up
Setting the record straight on sponsorship of the Oct. 20 NC#5 Candidate Forum.
From the Alliance for Youth Director Thomas Risberg:
“There has been a news article circulating which noted Alliance for Youth as the “co-sponsor” of the Candidate Forum and suggesting our “representative” ask certain questions of a candidate. While we are grateful Neighborhood Council #5 is renting our space for the Forum and look forward to having the Forum in our building, as a 501(c)(3) non-profit we also don’t want people thinking we are co-sponsoring the Forum.”