Posted on 07/12/2014 2:55:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
And most is consumed by a minority of daily users.
About 9% of Colorado’s population consumes marijuana, according to a market demand study conducted by the state department of revenue’s Marijuana Enforcement Division and the state’s Marijuana Policy Group. And those users, it’s estimated, will get through about 121.4 metric tons of pot every year.
According to the report, that consumption — calculated through survey results, demographic data and source data — is “31 percent higher than a recent department of revenue assessment, 89 percent higher than a study by the Colorado Futures Center, and 111 percent higher than an older study by the Colorado Center for Law and Policy.”
The state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division analyzed the market demand for the drug, which Colorado began selling for recreational use in January, in an effort to “effectively manage production within the regulated industry,” according to a press release.
According to the study, published Wednesday, the bulk of the demand for the drug comes from the most frequent users....
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Don't be naive. Ready availability and social (and legal) acceptance of the drug is going to create new users. Primarily among young people who are already desirous of peer acceptance.
What I have seen for 50 years is the pot smokers who are not addicted, yet will do anything to secure their pot, even when it meant a felony for possession (for instance in Texas when pot was first breaking out). People who risk their careers and and jail and reputations to do something that didn’t mean anything to them supposedly.
Imagine that! I wonder how much the study cost to come up with that earth-shattering discovery?
The steady leftward slide of the state’s Demwits continues to puzzle analysts.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
That's OK...as long as they democrat.../S
Government and profitable are oxymorons...
Make that "vote" democrat
Where there’s smoke...there’s Colorado.
Mission accomplished.
Many people will switch from other habits and intoxicants to pot, so yes there will be new pot users.
The silver lining of the pot smoke cloud is that it makes America’s problem more obvious. When life seems to get so unbearable and pointless that one’s chief desire is to drown one’s sorrows in pot, something that is in some ways less acutely harmful than alcohol, it will now become obvious.
I hope it will become more obvious that people need to be high, but high on God. God will also make you do things that the world says are stupid. God will make you generous when the world says you should fight those who grab things from you. God will make you love people who have treated you ugly, and yet not in an unhealthy way that makes you dependent upon them. God will take the unnecessary self-caused stress out of your life. In fact, God gives every good thing that could plausibly be ascribed to pot smoking, but without the stupor.
2 Mile High City.
Maybe you should parent better and stop blaming everyone else for your kids doing pot.
The same ones who turn a profit in the 50 states where alcohol is legal and widely used.
There is measurable reduction in reaction times and the like for 12-24 hours after use. More than alcohol - but certainly too thin a reed on which to hang legality for one versus a complete ban of the other.
if 10%, 20%, 30% or more people become permanently non-productive
I see no reason to expect that.
Actually, last I heard the most serious lung ailment that had been conclusively linked to marijuana was bronchitis. (Not that I'd be shocked to learn it causes cancer.)
But converting $100 dollars of federal entitlements to $10 in state sales taxes is profitable- for the state.
You've got me confused with someone who cares what dopers think.
Your observations aside, I know two immensely successful potheads. One was the number 2 at one of America’s largest corporations.
And yet a majority of Americans agree with libertarians that pot should be legalized. Go figure.
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