Posted on 04/14/2015 11:01:20 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
Sixty-two percent of Colorado voters approve of legalized recreational marijuana, according to a new Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released today.
A similar poll conducted last April showed that 54 percent of Coloradans approved of legal pot.
Quinnipiac polls voters in three states considered to be key in presidential elections: Iowa, Virginia and Colorado. A majority of voters in Virginia also support legalized marijuana, with 54 percent in favor. Iowa was split on the issue, with 47 percent on either side.
In all three states, those polled supported medical marijuana by a margin of 10 to 1, Quinnipiac found.
"Voters in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia often disagree about the big issues of the day — taxes, government spending, gay marriage and abortion. Yet there is one thing that they pretty much agree upon across state lines — medicinal pot," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Poll.
"Young people overwhelmingly favor legalized marijuana, while older folks are not so high on its recreational use," Brown said. "But there is very little gender gap in these three states. Although about half of more voters across the three states support legalization of marijuana for personal use, very few voters say they would partake in it."
Eighteen percent of voters say they've tried marijuana since it became legal on Jan. 1, 2014.
Other results in Quinnipiac's poll show that 52 percent of Coloradans approve of Gov. John Hickenlooper and that 46 percent approve of the job Sen. Michael Bennet is doing. Forty-six percent of voters approve of the job Sen. Cory Gardner is doing.
Mile high state.
Should say, all the interlopers from California approve of smoking dope and screwing up everywhere they go.
Weed making them stupider? Yuck, yuck. Don’t have a horse in that game. In general I would advise against smoking pot more than occasionally but I don’t care what anybody does to their body so long as I don’t get the bill.
The fact is, nobody can tell the difference. Nothing changed.
“Since marijuana legalization, highway fatalities in Colorado are at near-historic lows” - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3190602/posts
“Colorado Teens Smoking Less Pot Since Legalization” - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3190690/posts
“Colorado marijuana revenues hit a new high” - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3215502/posts
“Six Months After Legalizing Marijuana, Two Big Things Have Happened in Colorado” - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3175168/posts: “According to government data, the Denver city- and county-wide murder rate has dropped 52.9% since recreational marijuana use was legalized [...] major property crimes are down 11.5% compared to the same period in 2013.”
“Should say, all the interlopers from California approve of smoking dope and screwing up everywhere they go.”
Do you have evidence that a statistically significant number of Californians have moved to Colorado, more than the normal moving around in this country?
Did your so called “interlopers from California” also move to Iowa and Virginia, to impact the statistics?
Some look back on the history of Prohibition, and see the futility of making criminals out of ordinary citizens, whether they be native sons or “interlopers.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States
Actually Texas is the biggest target for California emigrants. Bringing the blue fever east.
Disaster to their budget that is.
Why are there so many Colorado LEO when the number of crimes being committed is substantially reduced? Over 1/2 of past drug crimes were pot related. That's easily a wholesale reduction in cops focused on drug enforcement of 50%.
When will the clamoring to reduce the cost of law enforcement emerge?
That's what LEO worries about.
The US Census Bureau estimates that from April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2014, 140,000 people immigrated to Colorado (population 5M) from other states: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=PEP_2014_PEPTCOMP&prodType=table . Looks like most of that pro-pot sentiment is native.
Disaster to their budget that is.
How do conservative FReepers not get that law enforcement is as full of featherbedding and power-grabbing as any other government activity?
Man Texas is screwed. Interesting that NY just about broke even on international immigration and domestic emigration.
Oh, please! Murders are down by more than half due to pot?
Why don’t we legalize duels to further reduce the murder rate? Then people can “come out of the shadows” and there will be a safe process for settling disputes with people acting as seconds and so forth.
Drugs disgust me, and shame on you for defending pot.
Why don’t we legalize harder drugs than pot, in order not “to make criminals out of ordinary citizens?”
Your reasoning is absurd because it either involves legalizing everything, or arbitrarily stopping at pot, which will never happen in the real world, just as gays could not keep the “leave us alone” sentiment but have to terrorize people of faith.
And in ten or twenty years, the pot brigade will force Christians to approve of pot or lose their businesses or jobs. Freedom!!
I didn't say it was "due to" - only noted that the facts contradict the predictions of anti-pot zealots who claimed that crime would rise with legalization.
(But since inflating pot profits and restricting them to criminal hands, as pot criminalization does, provides motive and means for lethal conflict resolution, it's at least plausible that legalization did contribute to the drop.)
shame on you for defending pot.
I've never "defended" pot, but only the right of adults to choose to use (or sell) pot.
Specifically what forms would this "approval" take? Are legal pot users asking bakers (Christian or otherwise) to make them pot-leaf-shaped cakes?
We all know that is defending pot. Liberals say they do not defend abortion, just the “right to choose.” You are doing the same here,
Do you use pot yourself?
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