Posted on 07/02/2014 11:27:52 AM PDT by Rebelbase
$19 million in new tax revenue.
Marijuana-related arrests, which make up 50% of all drug-related crimes, have plummeted in Colorado, freeing up law enforcement to focus on other criminal activity. By removing marijuana penalties, the state saved somewhere between $12 million and $40 million in 2012, according to the Colorado Center on Law and Policy.
According to government data, the Denver city- and county-wide murder rate has dropped 52.9% since recreational marijuana use was legalized in January. This is compared to the same period last year, a time frame encompassing Jan. 1 through April 30.
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Murder’s down 52.9%, too.
But they are way cuter than the typical stoner, so they get a pass.
Yeah, they were popular when I was a kid too. In the 70’s......
In the 21st Century, we have to add stimulant prescription drugs to treat Attention Deficit Disorder/Hypersactivity in children and adolescents and prescription narcotics and downers in mom and dad’s medicine cabinet to the list of “real” gateway drugs.
Are you equating smoking a joint with murder, rape, and bank robbery?
Who is the victim in the joint smoking?
It’s not the pot smoking itself that displays the harm. Usually all that happens at the time is a relatively peaceful stupor. And if that was it, the concerns would be less. It’s what happens in the longer term as a consequence. THC is not just there and gone; it lingers (brains are largely fat).
This stuff might be the best thing since Jesus’ healings for treatment of severe and chronic pain for all I know, and that’s wonderful if it is and patients should not be denied it, but smoking it gratuitously is an abuse.
Murder rates have fallen in last 40 years. Try again.
Lots more widespread and with the imprimatur of societal approval and a much much stronger drug now.
Morons All
Grew up in MD in the 70s. Cigs, booze, much later, pot.
Actually, it will force more cops onto the streets to make up for lost revenue, by seeking out new sources for citations!
Mental illness, schizophrenia will be skyrocketing soon.
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Is it only legal pot that is correlated (we have zero proof of causality) to schizophrenia.
http://schizophrenia.com/szfacts.htm
Odd, don’t you think that the rate of schizophrenia (approx 1.1% of the population) is pretty much the same country to country year after year. Shouldn’t we have seen considerable spiking of the rate after the late 60s here in the US?
I love how much 1970’s-era propaganda about marijuana is spewed on FR. I watched an old episode of “Dragnet” on Netflix the other day. I heard the same ridiculous Carrie Nation-like preaching from back then that I’m reading here now.
I don’t use the stuff, but good grief. We have bigger problems than adults getting high, whether it be with a weed from the back yard or expensive whiskey from Scotland.
'Sir, you have exceeded the legal limit for fat and sugar purchases this month. Get down on the ground NOW!'
In the 21st Century, we have to add stimulant prescription drugs to treat Attention Deficit Disorder/Hypersactivity in children and adolescents and prescription narcotics and downers in mom and dad’s medicine cabinet to the list of “real” gateway drugs.
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Great point. My son in law and daughter teach and coach sports at 2 pretty exclusive private schools in the Mid Atlantic region, and both of them have said that the % of kids on adderal exceed 75%. And enjoyed recreationally.
Anyone giving it to (or making it available to) kids should be arrested for a felony.
3 things... the place smells real bad.
ok legitimize adultery and infidelity goes away.
nobody is hurt and it feels okey dokey.
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