Posted on 05/29/2016 1:06:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Cities are selling their soul to the devil, one ounce at a time.
Spending every dime of their “windfall” and then some...
And they will not save a dime of it.
They should look at Atlantic City. The good times come and go quickly.
So I say, I say welcome, welcome to the Boomtown
Pick a habit, we got plenty to go around
Welcome, welcome to the Boomtown
All that money makes such a succulent sound
Welcome to the Boomtown
“”””Colorado continues to provide an interesting experiment in the legalization of a plant that has been demonized by government for decades. “”””””
Good thing the government doesn’t demonize plants. Oh wait, have they heard of a plant called tobacco? They used to say that was just a plant, too.
My son became psychotic after going to college in Colorado and using cannabis.
Google: ‘psychosis’ and ‘cannabis’, and you will find many studies proving a connection.
“They found that those who used cannabis by the age of 15 were more than three times (i.e. 300% higher) as likely to develop illnesses such as schizophrenia.”
“...it was a frightening repeat of an episode a few days earlier when, with no papers to roll a joint, he ate a chunk of cannabis resin and collapsed in a nightclub toilet. ‘When I woke up I heard someone saying: “It’s OK Steve, you can get up now, you’re all right”,’ he recalls. ‘When I looked around, there was no one there...That’s when my voices started and I’ve had them ever since.”
It’s a plant. God grew it, a lot of us smoke it, and that settles it. Don’t like it? Don’t use it.
The tax $$ aren’t all that great. What? $50 million, $100 million. Big deal. Probably less than half a percent of the general revenue for the state.
Denver collected $29 million last year through taxes and licensing fees;
= = =
About 1/2 mill per week in taxes and fees.
What is the tax rate?; what are the gross sales to produce this?
As with all “Vices”, legalize it and tax it.
Put the money to productive, public use.
Those adults that wish to puff the chiba, go ahead.
Those that wish to imbibe their Maker’s Mark, so be it.
Those that ooze at the thought of chocolate covered, chocolate filled, chocolate sprinkled, chocolate caked donuts, have at it.
But don’t make me pay for it.
I have my own vice; my Weiand 6-71 needs premium.
Yeah, ‘funded’...JUST LIKE THEY WERE ‘FUNDED’ WITH CASINOS.
In other words, given a pittance when the politicians didn’t rob the designated fund dry (which is the usual state of affairs) and in return for a bevy of social problems that cost far more.
Not a Paxton?
Propaganda. For my part, I will continue to regard pot users as brain-damaged subhuman liberal idolators who worship a plant through a form of chemical masturbation, worthy only of being the stopping place for bullets or blades.
It’s a good time to sell Ding Dongs, Twinkies and Fig Newtons.
He needs to stop. Yes, drugs can have mental side effects such as what you have described.
Those side effects will cease with time if he quits.
[ Its a plant. God grew it, a lot of us smoke it, and that settles it. Dont like it? Dont use it. ]
The problem is that Cronyism in the 1930’s caused the government to ban it which drove the breeding of it into a more potent form that is far more destructive than the strain that “God Grew”.
So now that it is legalized it is certainly not the “ditch weed” that it was over 75 years ago...
God also grows hemlock, sharpshooter.
[ Cities are selling their soul to the devil, one ounce at a time. ]
People said the same about booze before prohibition.
Now I will never touch the stuff, but if some fool wants to ruin their life with it, I am fine with it, just don’t tax me to clean up their wrecked lives.
How sad.
Unfortunately, cannabis causes brain damage in users whose brains are still developing. That means in anyone who is age 25 or younger. It just so happens that young people who are the most vulnerable to the damaging effects of cannabis use are also the prime targets of drug pushers.
This experiment with legalizing marijuana will not last long, but by the time it is finished, I’m afraid that the social burden of the damaged users is going to be quite heavy.
I hope that your son refrains from further use, and that he eventually recovers.
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