I used to go around and around with the marijuana advocates on this forum. My wife and I live in Washington as well. Politicians and law enforcement had a very permissive attitude towards marijuana even before legalization, but consumption skyrocketed resulting in all sorts of social problems. My wife and I make a 60 mile round trip commute nearly every day. We have gotten so used to smelling marijuana from the cars ahead of us that we hardly think of it anymore. But the bad driving associated with people intoxicated with marijuana is harder to ignore. And of course, the exploding “homelessness” issue and associated crime is a very visible result as well.
Somehow people who do not work with the public as I did do not realize that marijuana use also has a direct relationship with an increased rate of mental illness. This is to the point that nearly every psychotic individual that we had repeated contact with was a heavy marijuana user and most of those who somehow gave it up somehow were miraculously cured.
The state collected $515.2 million in taxes in 2022 from legal marijuana with a 50% “smuggling rate”. They collected $325 million from tobacco with a 41.6% “smuggling rate”. They collected $480 million from alcohol with a smuggling rate that I could not find. The legal marijuana business in Washington State was $1.4 Billion
“crime is a very visible result as well.
Somehow people who do not work with the public as I did do not realize that marijuana use also has a direct relationship with an increased rate of mental illness. This is to the point that nearly every psychotic individual that we had repeated contact with was a heavy marijuana user and most of those who somehow gave it up somehow were miraculously cured.”
Mental illness accounts for much of today’s crime.
Use of Marijuana before age 26 changes one’s brain—often to schizophrenia.
https://www.verywellmind.com/can-marijuana-cause-psychosis-5200547
There is a definite relationship between marijuana and mental illness and doctors and authorities have been aware of it for years. It is the mental illness that wrecks relationships. Remember when people used to laugh about paranoia caused by marijuana, well paranoia is a type of schizophrenia and it is no joke.
It isn’t just a relationship between marijuana and mental illness, it is also connected to violence. The parents around here used to say that they would rather have their kids high on marijuana than drunk on beer. Then they were surprised when the kid ended up a heroin addict.
My son knew five kids who were arrested for cross border marijuana smuggling. One of them served time in a federal prison and his parents, who were teachers at the school, were named unidicted coconspirators.
We used smell the marijuana on people just walking around Costco, but since vaping became popular, we don’t smell it much any more. People seem to realize that it stinks. I guess part of it was the lock down. People confined their smoking to their houses.
There is a definite relationship between marijuana and mental illness and doctors and authorities have been aware of it for years. It is the mental illness that wrecks relationships. Remember when people used to laugh about paranoia caused by marijuana, well paranoia is a type of schizophrenia and it is no joke.
It isn’t just a relationship between marijuana and mental illness, it is also connected to violence. The parents around here used to say that they would rather have their kids high on marijuana than drunk on beer. Then they were surprised when the kid ended up a heroin addict.
My son knew five kids who were arrested for cross border marijuana smuggling. One of them served time in a federal prison and his parents, who were teachers at the school, were named unindicted co-conspirators.
Remember that the first thing that George Soros did when he went into a country was to mobilize the college students to protest for legalized abortion and marijuana. Abortion destroys the families and marijuana just plain makes you stupid. It degrades your ability for rational thought. Seriously, it lowers the IQ.