We’ve ot years of infomtaion from states that have legalized.
But all we get is partisan explications of the data.
Wish someone would try to give a fair evaluation.
That goes for both sides of the debate. Neither seems to try to be fair.
I believe this article is quite fair and well documented with a variety of sources.
I live in Colorado. The positives were brief. Mexican cartels initially went away since illegal pot wasn’t popular anymore.
Black market weed went out of style quickly, but the massive taxes and legal costs caused black market weed to return, as did the crime.
Robberies of the cash-only stores skyrocketed. (Pot places cannot take credit cards.)
DUI on pot skyrocketed, which also has the effect of causing all our car insurance rates to go up.
Homeless came here looking for pot. Homelessness skyrocketed. Downtown Denver is a mess right now, capital of teen aged runaways.
Illegal grow houses for export out of Colorado has gone nuts. It is legal to grow some pot for yourself, but these grow houses are for export, which is illegal. Mexican mafia returned.
Teenagers in mental health facilities has skyrocketed. Wife runs inpatient hospitals. They could easily use 100 times the number of beds available.
Number of pot toking idiots in public has skyrocketed. Employers are concerned since so many employees cannot function. I hire enterprise level architects and engineers, and we’ve lost a few to pot smoking. About to lose another one. Seems he smashed into a bunch of cars high on pot and tried to speed away.