Former FoCo mayor’s anti-marijuana book draws critics

Former Fort Collins Mayor Ray Martinez is getting guff for his new book, a piece that criticizes marijuana.

Martinez’s book, “The Truth About Marijuana, America’s Snake Oil,” was published earlier this summer. It aims to discredit claims by pro-marijuana groups that the drug is safer than alcohol.

“I’m just trying to destroy the misleading facts that are being put out there,” Martinez told the Denver Post.

As a former undercover drug agent, Martinez crusaded last year to put an end to medical marijuana dispensaries in Fort Collins.

Reviewers on Amazon have disparaged the book as false propaganda and, well, boring.…