“Pot driving fatalities in Colorado are up 151 percent!”
Right and let THEM babysit YOUR kids
Big straw-man.
[[ Ten states and Washington, D.C., have now legalized adult use of marijuana.]]
And if you smoke it, in some states, and it is determined that you do, you can never own a gun again-
Medical or Recreational Marijuana Means No Gun Rights
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/11/john-boch/medical-marijuana-means-no-gun-rights/
No one can convince me "parents" should be smoking weed around their young children or that it doesn't have lasting cumulative effects.
Legalizing weed is about dulling and controlling new generations for political power.
I guess no one is safe anymore....
I’m fine with recreational weed smoking. But it should be regulated in public. If they can limit a Constitutional right (firearms possession) in certain space, they can absolutely limit smoking weed in certain spaces.
From what I have been told, the tourists frequent the dispensaries and most locals continue to buy on the black market. The greatest danger from weed are the edibles. It takes a couple of hours to feel the effect, and many become impatient and take way more than they should. It can make you disturbingly high. It’s like candy, and tempting to children. Today’s weed isn’t like the dreck from back in the day. not by a long shot.
Some mid-wive’s and naturopaths are recommending marijuana to alleviate symptoms associated with morning sickness. There is evidence that marijuana usage during pregnancy may have bad effects on the unborn child’s brain development.
Fool. It's not just crime rates that need looking at. What about unemployment rates? What about welfare rates? What about the tax and spending increases that Colorado has suffered with? The lower educational levels?
There are many tangible negatives to legal weed.
It’s a very reliable axiom that you can view any CHANGE in societal rules that the left champions as the ideological opposite of the conservative position.
Where does the left fall on this issue, is what should be examined.
I am hard over opposed to legalizing Marijuana!
In researching the “results” of legalization, I can find no dispassionate, objective statistics supporting legalization or keeping it a criminal act.
Both sides have their own facts and statistics, and both claim to be right!
So, all we can do is follow the money, and the big money people are spending millions to get drugs legalized under the rubric of “Well, they are gonna do it anyway, legal or not, so we may as well cash in and get the criminal element out of the drug business.”
How has that worked out so far?
And, what does legalization of a substance that is known to cause health and behavior problems say about our society?
We are not strong enough to call out evil? We caution against drinking too much alcohol - how much is too much marijuana?
This experiment will not end well for anybody but government and the big money behind legalization.
The poor suffering honest, non-dope smoking taxpayer is gonna get screwed again!
Supporters of America’s long war on drugs said legalization would create disaster. Has it? No.
When pot was illegal the legal consequence was more dangerous than the drug.
Pot might be legal but has consequences: 1. No job if it requires drug test, 2. No gun ownership if honest on background application, etc.
Want to lower rampant drug use? Get rid of welfare including free medical care.
Denver was on the fast track to $h!thole status in the 70s and 80s. I dont think this has helped its trajectory.
There is and will be an entire generation or two of kids who have their still developing brains stunted by pot. It’s why leftists ALWAYS push pot.
pg. 189; para 2.: This calamity has a proximate cause: the addictions of twenty-five million Americans who buy $25-40 billion of illegal narcotics each year, most of it coming in through the southwestern border. Writer Charles Bowden has cleverly labeled this as a case of supply and demand. Every time someone in the United States snorts a line of coke, or courts the muse by smoking a joint, or a group of teens score meth on a dare--each one of these individual acts fuels the cartel machine and resonates back along the supply chain to the borderlands. From the Mexican perspective, America's insatiable demand carries a greater responsibility for the drug wars than Mexico's admittedly imperfect law enforcement and criminal justice systems. And they have a great deal of right on their side.
Pot makes POC rape white women too. I saw it on Reefer Madness.
Don’t hire any Pot people. Work effort is at about 15%
I figured all the undesirables would flock to those states from here. But now our governor supports legalization.