Report from the front lines where “medicinal” pot is legal.
If you have a street analogous to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, you’ll see no change at all. Pot stores can’t afford the rent. So the deleterious affects don’t bother rich people and rich politicians at all.
But in your middle-class to lower-middle-class parts of town? Get ready for nice business districts to be destroyed. Because decent people won’t patronize businesses in the same strip malls or next door to pot collectives. Because jobless dirtbag “patients” hang out all day in the parking spaces, shoving microwave burritos in their gobs from the 7/11 that manages to hang on.
Get ready for the crime rate within a ten-mile radius of any pot store to skyrocket. And yeah, I’m talking about people stealing anything, including bikes off your front porch. Oh, I’m sure pot users aren’t to blame. They’re so non-violent.
Pot isn’t a gateway drug — it’s the gate. To loserville. Ever work with a pot smoker? They suck at their job because they’re slow of thought. And they stink, literally. Pot is evil, evil, evil, and any city that legalizes it, like mine did, will Rue. The. Day. Like my city is doing now.
Hooray. We all get to live in Amsterdam.
Violent crime in general is down almost 2%, and major property crimes are down 11.5% compared to the same period in 2013.
http://mic.com/articles/92449/six-months-after-legalizing-marijuana-two-big-things-have-happened-in-colorado