http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/08/07/pot-use-among-colorado-teens-appears-to-drop-after-legalization
No thrill in the chase, so to speak. Like when alcohol was made legal after prohibition. Now the thrill will be in other drugs that are still illegal (until they become legal).
Well, this explains the drop in traffic accidents.
How does anyone even begin to determine this in such a short period of time especially when those queried are frigen stoners?
Choom gang moved outta CO?
Why would government workers lie, right? ...Right?
Clearly, we need to legalize murder, rape and arson ASAP.
Lol, a likely story. 2% drops? Doesn’t sound like enough data to be concluding anything. More like a political point someone is trying to make.
The teen unemployment rate has been high for several years. More of them are living with their parents, in military service elsewhere or attending colleges in other states with lower tuitions.
When they raised the age for beer and wine consumption in Colorado, traffic accidents went up, and ‘use’ of the illegal booze skyrocketed. Seems 18 - 21 year olds will drink more when they are no longer served in bars, for some odd reason...
That there was a drop when marijuana was made legal doesn’t shock me... Who wants to do what Mom & Dad are doing after their visit to the dispensary?
BS
Colorado is a national embarrassment bump for later...
sure.
Good argument also for lowering the drinking age to 18....less thrill, fewer binges.
Statistically insignificant changes.
I doubt the conclusions.
Small timescale, miniscule change, easily attributable to normal fluctuation in trend lines or the influence of any of a thousand other wider trends.
But that’s not going to stop people from using non-evidence like this to concoct out of whole cloth whatever hair-brained narrative they’d like to believe.
My favorite quote in the whole article:
“While the survey showed a non-statistically significant 2 percentage point reduction in teen marijuana use within Colorado, these results cannot be interpreted as representing an actual decline.”
So a decline is not a decline. Just like almost 18 years of cooling is not really cooling.
The prohibitionists swore that we’d have a steep rise and begged us to maintain the WOD ‘for the children’.
LOL! Dang potheads will say anything to make people think that smoking weed is more popular than being an “openly gay” homosexual these days. Geez.
It’s not so cool since they’ve seen their idiot parents grazing around the fridge.
A 2% change has very low statistical significance.
There is no way this story is true. News has just turned into propaganda.