[FlingWingFlyer]

Getting the dummies high and taking their money! What a government!

[entropy12]

Those revenues are peanuts compared to savings for:

Less prisons
Less prison staff
Less cops
Less judges
Less bailiffs
Less public defenders
Less court buildings

[Born to Conserve]

I remember watching state lotteries spread across the country. I guess this will be the same. Give legal pot one decade to spread to every state.

[hinckley buzzard]

Dopers on parade. What a proud sight.

[lurk]

As with gambling, the revenue stream has to be taken out of blood veins elsewhere in the economy.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Colorado is going to pot. (Badoom tish!)

[factoryrat]

The mexican drug cartels are going to have to step up their game if they still want to compete. Expect more robberies and murders at growing operations and dispensaries in the near future. Low fruit ripe for the picking.

[JSDude1]

The only good news to this is the brain dead liberals will be even deader, and so the non libs will take over.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Usual note to self: When selling 30 round AK and AR magazines out of the trunk of your car, DO NOT EAT THE LOCAL PRODUCE! Bring your own food from out of state.

[MacMattico]

There was a time when I didn't care either way if Pot was legal or not. But in working with HS kids I've recently decided I'm against legalization. With it being legal in some states, kids see this as meaning acceptable. I've had kids tell me flat out that they smoke because it's going to be legal here anyway so what's the big deal? I've seen them go from productive and active to potheads in a short period of time. We have more emergency calls then ever before in my little town and in the increased cases smoking pot is usually involved. And about the tax revenue thing— kids can't buy it legally and many others won't pay the extra taxes. Illegal sales have gone up, not decreased. My daughters childhood friend got so stoned she woke up somewhere not knowing what happened to her or how she got there. When rumors spread around school she took an entire bottle of Tylenol and posted it on Facebook. A parent saw it and called 9/11. She was hospitalized for three weeks. Now back home she's quit school and is high almost everyday. She considers my daughter a “prude”. It's now becoming “cooler” in HS to be a stoner then an athlete. It's sad. A stupid kid goes out and gets drunk and throws up all day the next day usually decides I don't want to feel this way everyday. Kids that smoke tend to think it's ok to get high several days a week regularly.

[ltc8k6]

Why does that sound like it’s not much?

[aquila48]

This is going to be mighty tempting for the politicians of all the other states to follow suit.

I hope at least some of them will be wise enough to wait until the Colorado and Washington experiment (which I don’t mind) is further along, to get answers the following questions...

- Does the number of users increase?
- What is the impact on:
* crime
* jail population
* traffic accidents
* employer’s experience with workers using pot
* school attendance, performance
* birth rates
* use of harder drugs
* state finances

And other unintended and unforeseen consequences.

I would want to give that experiment at least 10 years and then see whether:

1. it is harmless, like the libs and pot head claim (I may be repeating myself)

2. A net positive, like the libertarians claim

3. A net negative, like conservatives claim

Anybody want to make an early guess as to the outcome?

[EC1]

How is the state going to get the money?

Last I heard, while pot may be legal in Colorado and Washington, the pot shops have an impossible time getting banking facilities under Federal rules.

Maybe that has changed, I don’t know.

[Gaffer]

Liberal government doesn’t care where it gets the money from, only that it gets it.

It never saw a fee, transfer tax, sales tax, SPLOST, bond tax, income tax, school assessment tax, property tax, use fee, licensing fee or any other money stealing scheme that has ever existed that it did not like and use.

[stars & stripes forever]

This country has gone to pot.

[Linda Frances]

Many of the cities in Colorado do not sell pot, like Colorado Springs because of large military presence.

We were in Colorado a few days ago and got to see what happens when potheads feel free to be stoned in the great outdoors. In Manitou Springs we watched a guys surfing on a curb stop while dancing. He wiped out.

[oldtech]

What about Colorado’s responsibilities to neighboring states where law enforcement problems are multiplying because of Colorado’s legal marijuana?