Posted on 04/29/2014 6:21:54 AM PDT by rktman
Colorado and Washington are the first states to legalize recreational marijuana. In my state of Colorado, Amendment 64 was passed by 55 percent of voters by ballot referendum last year and took effect on January 1 of this year. State government officials are giddy with the prospects of increased revenue from marijuana sales. Marijuana tourism is booming in Colorado, giving new meaning to “Rocky Mountain High.” Now, four months into this new experiment, it may be worth looking at some of the unintended consequences.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Touché
Dan Jenkins wrote a very humorous book, “Baja Oklahoma,” about the habitues of a North Texas bar. It was made into a terrible TV movie.
From my native Texan dad...
How do you find Texas if you are lost?
Go south until you smell it and west until you step in it.
I don’t think CO and TX share a border ...
They don’t but its just a hop and a skip because both Oklanoma and New Mexico are located on it’s corner borders and Colorado is almost directly diagonally across from it. Trust me, the Texas DPS Troopers are going to enjoy all the extra revenue they make off the stoners coming into Texas from Colorado and because their politics are now diametric opposites I wouldn’t expect any sympathy or reciprocity anytime soon. Colorado will go to pot soon and the effects will be plainly seen, probably just as President Choom expected and planned. A docile and high population is easier to control. You know Soros is involved somehow and will be able to make money off the process somehow. Its what he does. Politics for profit.
NOTE TO SELF: When in Colorado selling AK and AR 30 round magazines out of the trunk of your car, DO NOT eat the local prepared foods. Bring your own in cans from out of state!
They will have to pass through NM or OK first!
The article is intellectually disappointing, relating tragic anecdotes associated with marijuana use, and treating them as if they reflect a trend (and as if traffic deaths, suicides and violence never occur without marijuana).
The best study shows that traffic fatalities decline after states legalize marijuana.
Google:
Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption
Care to discuss the drugged out people taking cocktails of legal, doctor prescribed acid trips?
See that border line that goes from Texas up to Colorado. You stay right smack in the middle of them and travel it to go from Texas to Colorado...j/k
There is a real small corner of Oklahoma that you can travel through to go from Texas to Colorado. Its either a FM or STHWY and it’s a lot of scenic desert type open country with tumbleweeds and cacti plus a bunch if eroded creekbeds that clearly show how the Grand Canyon probably started.
“A picture says a thousand words....”
Most of those words are “Duh!”
A Mexican on his way to Oklahoma....
There has been unimpeded access to all illegal drugs for decades. 40 years and a trillion wasted dollars did not even slow down drug availability.
55% of Coloradans decided the cure (WOD) is worse than the disease. That is why Colorado used the political process to change the law.
Are you expecting me to defend Dr. prescribed acid trips? That tells me we have a culture that’s 180 deg from where it should be. I’m confident that legalized pot will exacerbate the problems we’re facing. However, I would talk about legalizing pot if it meant shrinking the government to a constitutional size. I would never agree to do legalization before shrinking. Because it’s, frankly, stupid. Big government + legal drugs = codifying and affirming drug use.
But if you truly believe legalization doesn’t lead to more use, all this is just a rattling sound to you. You’ve abandoned reason and experience in favor of either a lifestyle or a theory.
You and I are in agreement on this. Getting government back to Constitutional limits is precisely why I voted for this referendum.
I’ve lived in CO all my life. Denver was a $h!+ hole long before pot was legal.
If you tried hard enough, I think you could find more nuance in the conservative position than that.
I am an auto mechanic with 35 years of experience. In the process of working on cars I see lots of stuff. Roaches in ash trays, pipes, bags of weed and lots of other stuff. I have observed this for 35 years. There is no change in the percentage of cars with stuff in them.
Colorado and Washington are going to prove one of us right. Just like the Founders intended.
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