Colorado Ballot Initiative Would Ban Smartphone Sales to Children

In February, Colorado dad and Denver-area anesthesiologist Tim Farnumformed the nonprofit PAUS (Parents Against Underage Smartphones) with a few other medical professionals and began drafting a ballot initiative that, if passed, would make Colorado the first state in the nation to establish legal limits on smartphones sales to children. Farnum’s proposal, ballot initiative no. 29, would make it illegal for cellphone providers to sell smartphones to children under the age of 13.