Pot Tax Funds Prevention Specialists in RF Schools

KDNK | By Raleigh Burleigh

Published January 30, 2018 at 7:59 AM MST

Last year, The State of Colorado gave 9.2 million dollars of tax revenue collected from recreational marijuana towards improving school health. The Roaring Fork School District invested 220,000 dollars of grant money in hiring three prevention specialists, including Sonja Linman. KDNK’s Raleigh Burleigh spoke to Sonja about using pot money to fund prevention education.

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Raleigh Burleigh was raised in the historic floodplanes of Satank. The Carbondale Rotary Club sponsored him as a youth ambassador to Chile the year before his graduation from Roaring Fork High School. He studied International Affairs and Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder then applied those studies traveling throughout South America the following year. Returning to Carbondale thereafter, Raleigh acquired an internship with KDNK News which led to the opportunity to serve as News Director from 2017 to 2019. After another trip to South America in early 2019, Raleigh Burleigh drew deeper into the confluence as Program Director at KDNK. Raleigh now serves on KDNK's board of directors and as editor of Carbondale's weekly newspaper, The Sopris Sun.

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