The true source of the crime is that the marijuana business in CO has been locked out of the banking system so they have to use cash and that means that there is a lot of cash.
Saturday Evening Post in January 1951: “Someone once asked Slick Willie Sutton, the bank robber, why he robbed banks. The question might have uncovered a tale of injustice and lifelong revenge. Maybe a banker foreclosed on the old homestead, maybe a banker’s daughter spurned Sutton for another.
Sutton looked a little surprised, as if he had been asked “Why does a smoker light a cigarette?”
“I rob banks because that’s where the money is,” he said, obviously meaning “in the most compact form.” That eye for the simple essential may be the secret of a singular success.”
All of the “war on drugs” warriors are no better than the Prohibitionist on the 1920s and 30s. They have some valid points but they are not above lies, propaganda, and violence. For instance there is credible evidence that the FBI deliberately poisoned alcohol during Prohibition: https://sites.psu.edu/shivensblog/2014/02/20/fbi-poisoning-alcohol-during-prohibition/
Okay, so legalizing it in Colorado wasn't enough, those poor pot-smoking druggies can't stop committing crimes until pot is legalized at the federal level. On the other hand, maybe (just mayne) it's not laws that force druggies into a life of crime, but perhaps something else. Like brain damage, or addiction? Or impaired moral reasoning?