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Colorado Is Consuming Way More Pot Than Anyone Ever Believed
Time Magazine ^ | July 10, 2014 | Maya Rhodan

Posted on 07/12/2014 2:55:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: dangus

Waiting for the STOP sign to reverse itself and say POTS.


41 posted on 07/12/2014 5:55:41 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Popman

Aren’t you making an argument for alcohol prohibition?


42 posted on 07/12/2014 5:59:03 AM PDT by sakic
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To: sakic
Aren’t you making an argument for alcohol prohibition?

Considering how well it worked last time / S

No...

My point was once the barn door is open, the cows are out...

Tax dollars revenue will drive the pot legalization debate rather than health issues...

43 posted on 07/12/2014 6:01:48 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: twister881

No dude the O man is back on the pipe big time. He has a funny grin and half the time he has no ideal what is going on around him. The whole world is looking at you so you go play pool and drink beer and make jokes? You got to be hammered to act that way in public.


44 posted on 07/12/2014 6:02:57 AM PDT by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!)
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To: Popman
Tax dollars revenue will drive the pot legalization debate rather than health issues...

I think you are right about that.

And I think that pot legalization goes hand-in-hand with a permanent welfare state, which might be slightly trimmed at the edges but (sans revolution) will never, ever go away.

45 posted on 07/12/2014 6:04:54 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Popman

Chickenpoophead has said all the revenue from pot sales will not be enough to cover all the additional costs. Maybe if enough dumbass graphics artists become stoners some of these companies will have to look toward older experienced artists and i can get some work


46 posted on 07/12/2014 6:09:28 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: Popman
Considering that the main reason pot is moving toward legalization is driven by the tax revenue generated...

How much tax revenue can be generated by people who have no incentive to work?

While marijuana's deleterious effects can be observed after fairly short-term, light use, alcohol and tobacco only cause health issues after years of heavy use. Meanwhile, people who drink and smoke are still able to work and produce, meaning that they remain profitable to the government for a long time. Marijuana users are far more likely to become a liability than to generate much in the way of taxes.

47 posted on 07/12/2014 6:11:12 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: samtheman

You’re welcome.


48 posted on 07/12/2014 6:11:43 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Uncle Chip

“Colorado is lost —”

So, we in Colorado all turned to potheads because it was made legal? Wrong.

The report just simply shows that pot use was far higher than thought. Nothing has really changed at all. Those that didn’t smoke pot didn’t start.


49 posted on 07/12/2014 6:18:09 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Popman

Money drives everything 100% of the time.


50 posted on 07/12/2014 6:25:24 AM PDT by sakic
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To: exDemMom
How much tax revenue can be generated by people who have no incentive to work?

Work... Seriously ?

Getting income to buy dope is done the same way the parasites of society today do it...entitlements

Out of your and mine pocket...

I was talking about the tax revenue generated by selling pot legally...

51 posted on 07/12/2014 6:26:34 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: exDemMom
"How much tax revenue can be generated by people who have no incentive to work?"

How much tax revenue will be raised by a tax that is easily avoided? The odds are that the government will heavily raise the tax on marijuana like they did on cigarettes and alcohol. But unlike cigarettes and alcohol, marijuana is easily manufactured (cultivated) and I see the heavy users doing exactly that to avoid what will soon be an onerous tax.

Whatever revenue is generated will then be consumed on policing efforts to prevent home grown or black market pot. I assume the black market has already started.
52 posted on 07/12/2014 6:27:16 AM PDT by KamperKen
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To: Popman

Money drives everything 100% of the time.


53 posted on 07/12/2014 6:30:02 AM PDT by sakic
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To: exDemMom

Well stated...Wonder how long before we see chronic pot abusers qualify for Disability payments...


54 posted on 07/12/2014 6:32:08 AM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: PastorBooks

We were at the grocery store last night and the checker had to have been stoned. There was a “mexican” couple there who thought the way you shop is to have the wife stand at the checkout stand and the hubby run around the store and get stuff. Of course, she didn’t like what he brought, so she sent him back.

This went on for quite awhile to the distress of everyone in line.

Except the checker.

I am not to distressed by the population being high. Makes my and my son’s future prospects very bright indeed.


55 posted on 07/12/2014 6:33:08 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: exDemMom

Seems like you would be shocked to learn that there are quite a few potheads that are huge earners and quite a few in the workforce smoke pot.


56 posted on 07/12/2014 6:33:13 AM PDT by sakic
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To: samtheman

I remember a trip to Chuck E Cheese with my kids to a birthday party. the waitress was obviously stoned. She stood around smiling (at nothing) with glassy eyes and didn’t do anything that anyone told her. I am sure she got herself fired because everyone else in the place as bustling around, busy busy.


57 posted on 07/12/2014 6:44:01 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: exDemMom

I have a cousin who is and always has been a pot head. He is 60 yrs old and has never done a productive thing in his life. He has been on Social Security Disability for many many yrs now. Dirt poor and still spends most of the money he gets on pot. Found out yesterday he has laryngeal cancer. He’ll still smoke pot.


58 posted on 07/12/2014 6:52:47 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Popman
Getting income to buy dope is done the same way the parasites of society today do it...entitlements

Out of your and mine pocket...

I was talking about the tax revenue generated by selling pot legally...

If the potheads are using entitlement money to buy pot, then there are no net tax profits to the government for taxing marijuana sales. Spending $100 dollars to provide entitlements to get back $10 in sales taxes is hardly profitable.

59 posted on 07/12/2014 6:57:56 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: sheana
Found out yesterday he has laryngeal cancer. He’ll still smoke pot.

Pot is more carcinogenic than tobacco. It's a shame your cousin has wasted his life in this way.

60 posted on 07/12/2014 6:59:47 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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