Posted on 10/21/2016 11:49:18 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
According to the latest reports coming out of Colorado, marijuana is a major cause of homicides in the state, and the problem is only getting worse.
"There is increased crime, sometimes violent crime, associated with legalization of marijuana," Brauchler said. "That's not what you'd expect. You'd expect the harder-core drugs." ... "If cash is the only way to acquire marijuana, crime follows cash," Brauchler said ... Brauchler believes the legalization of marijuana is partly to blame for the rise in crime. "It is easier for there to be black market in a legalized system than there was before," he said.
This all wasn't supposed to happen. The pot legalization advocates told us that legalized marijuana would reduce crime and effectively eliminate the black market. Now we have experienced and respected prosecutors saying they are seeing, firsthand, the exact opposite.
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Oops.
The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Make marijuana related murder illegal then.
Problem solved.
Balderdash.
I do not know if the “official” statistics support it, but my own observations both professionally and personally over the past few years are that the crime situation in Washington has gotten much worse since marijuana was legalized. Whether it is marijuana or the bad influence of Obama’s policies I do not know for certain.
The pot they get from the pot store (skunk weed) is magnitudes stronger than what used to sell on the street.
Strange and somehow counter-intuitive.
Seems like it should be easier to get the stuff and at cheaper prices.
I agree legalizing drugs was suppose to make it so crime would go down because the criminals were to stoned to want to commit crimes.
I just wonder whether there is a clintele for this market Which includes people willing to employ violence to advance their control.
There are still a lot of placess where this is illegal. Could be the violence is because of that.
I dunno. Actually, I would expect it. Prior to legalization the drugs were moving by fairly stable “ known operators”. Think about it, the surrounding states are the “problem”. Not just anybody could become a pot distributor when the source is difficult to get to and return. You had to be committed to get involved.
Legalization in Colorado means anyone within 500 miles can become a “mom and pip” distributor. So you get a sudden entry into the market of a bunch of folks that “aren’t pros”. Say what you will about “dirty cops” but at a certain level of political corruption dirty cops are REQUIRED to keep the amateurs out of the crime business so violence does not escalate.
The best way to deal with such a situation is go back up the food chain and get rid of the corrupt politicians, then get rid of the dirty cops, then prosecute the criminals.
When the surrounding states legalize, the “mom and pop” distributors will go back to whatever they were doing before they got into the “distributing pot for fun and profit” and the tide of crap that washed into Colorado will ebb. Being from Colorado it would be nice if it were that easy to get all the crap that floated in from the coasts to go home. Maybe then I would go home.
The timing also coincides with the migration of liberals to CA.
May be the pot, may just be the natural state of things when liberals take over.
he migration of liberals to CO.
Murder??? Someone must have stole ALL the munchies.
Have you checked the prices for legal marijuana? I did when I visited Oregon and Washington last summer...yikes!
Naw! Now that’s a surprise./s
Indeed it's truly a mystery why widely distributing addictive drugs which rot people's brains would have negative social consequences. I am still scratching my head while pondering this.
Must be state governments passing huge taxes to milk a potential cash cow, as they do with tobacco.
Leave it to the government to f*** up a good thing.
Last year, I recall a story from Denver where some family had come up for a vacation, and the 20-something son (as well as the rest of the family) had gone to a weed-store. He’d bought a number of the gummi-edibles with the content of one joint in each packet. It was clearly written that you should eat and digest one, and give it 30-60 minutes before you feel the effect.
Well, the kid took one....after about 15 min....he felt nothing. His mom was going out for a while. So he said he was going to digest another one, and probably did four of these total.
When Mom returned....he’d had some pretty wild reaction to the joint-”candy” and pulled out a gun and killed himself.
I think we are in a bold new world where the regular effect that was the norm in the 1980s....won’t work with the bulk of society and they are demanding more and more effective joints without thinking of the consequences.
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