Posted on 09/26/2015 1:20:15 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The results of a new study about the impact of Colorado’s marijuana legalization is raising troubling questions for parents. The study cites a significant increase in marijuana-related traffic deaths, hospital visits and school suspensions.
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When Trump becomes president, he’s gonna ban pot and throw all these brain-damaged smokers and criminal dealers in jail.
And Coloradans are surprised by this........why?
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I think that’s the bigger surprise...what did Colorado think would happen?
Other than specific medical uses ( Charlotte's Web comes to mind for children with seizure disorders ) via prescription this whole Medical Marijuana experiment is not a slow road to hell but a fast one. What is worse is the other states wanting to sign up for this lunacy.
It is looking like we are Rome in it's last days...
President Obama says that marijuana and alcohol are the same.
Has anyone asked him what the AMA daily allowance is for marijuana?
Sounds good to me.
Ah yes, Drug Warriors, fighting to keep their government jobs.
“Activists say it’s the way pot is marketed and sold that has started to create some serious problems.”
Yep...that’s it right there. Blame the advertising.
How much of the increase, in each case, was marijuana-related?
The study states that over 11 percent of Colorado’s 12 to 17 year-olds use pot — 56 percent higher than the national average.
What was the percentage two years ago, or five years ago?
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I do not favor recreational drug legalization, use, or advertising. I just get annoyed at the ignorant, or corrupt, parading of random statistics.
In a perfect world, of course we don’t want our kids to abuse pot.
But in the real world, this is a plant that a child can grow and you will NEVER stop it. I was in school when pot was unpopular and very illegal. Yet anyone was still able to buy it right in school after about the 7th grade.
Today I tutor high school kids and we are FAR from a legal state. Yet ALL of them can buy pot easier than beer. Right in the classroom.
You will NEVER stop people from growing a plant easier than basil that sells for it’s weight in gold. NEVER EVER.
The ONLY thing outlawing does is make the market unregulated and full of dirty/laced pot sold by criminals.
Personally, I’d rather have clean known pot available. Instead of my kids smoking moldy garbage sprayed with Chinese chemicals.
Right NOW in the ghettos, we have an epedemic of people smoking that fake pot. They smoke these leaves sprayed with research chemicals and damage themselves 1000 times more than pot ever will. Because this synthetic crap is made artificially cheaper than pot.
People are literally dying and having seizures on the streets due to our stupid pot laws!
Keep in mind that The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program (HIDTA) is a drug-prohibition enforcement program run by the United States Office of National Drug Control Policy.
It will get rid of the lowbrows that think it is cool to get stoned. Weed them out!!
“When Trump becomes president, he’s gonna ban pot and throw all these brain-damaged smokers and criminal dealers in jail.”
So you want another dictator just not Obama. It sounds like you’re the one who’s brain damaged. Why don’t you let people run their own business and you mind yours. Oh, and stop hiding behind ‘the children’.
I see what you did there, and I think it’s clever!
Wow, who’da thunk anything bad would come from legalizing pot?!?
Yeah...I had heartbreaking talk with my best friend last night...her 25 yr old son is back to heroin ...he just doesn’t care...gets food stamps...money to go to school...no incentive to work....and this is Not how he was raised...
“Colorado Teens Smoking Less Pot Since Legalization” - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3190690/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.”
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