Posted on 09/26/2014 10:07:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Legal marijuana is luring pot tourists and business entrepreneurs to Colorado, and it’s also attracting another demographic: the homeless, some of whom trek to the state in hopes of landing a job in the industry.
“There’s an enormous migration, even a homeless movement, so to speak,” David Spencer, a homeless man from Tennessee, said. “I figured this would be a good place to start over.”
While shelters across the metro area are willing to open their doors, they’re quickly running out of room.
“We were averaging 190 (homeless) last year. We’re now averaging 345 a night,” Murray Flagg of the Salvation Army said.
Tom Luehrs, the executive director of St. Francis Center, says the top reason many homeless are moving to Colorado is work, especially in the new legal industry.
“People see that the marijuana business has been flourishing here,” he says, “so they match up good business … and jobs must be available, which they are.”
Space is tight at St. Francis Center, too.
“We’ve seen as many as 45 new people in one day,” Luehrs said. “I think it was one of the unintended consequences of the marijuana legalization,” Luehrs said.
Colorado law requires an employee in the marijuana business lives in the state for one year before they can be hired.
Colorado: the Land Of Pot.
The Last Frontier.
Gee, looking for work I’m sure.
People are now coming for weed instead for gold!
Never seen anything like it since the land rush boom ended in the 1890s.
Yeah, right... Looking for work. Yeah, that’s it.
Its a step up from being a street bum.
At least its not the Dust Bowl they’re migrating from.
This will spread itself out when the rest of the country accepts pot as legal. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
On the good side of things, by Colorado being a magnet for such trash, it does potentially help cleanse my own state of these cretins. On the bad side, I always did like Colorado as a state, and I hate seeing it so degraded.
Hey, they’re working and paying taxes instead of sleeping under bridges and panhandling.
Things could be far worse.
They aren’t working, though. They have to be residents of the State for 1 year before they can work in the industry. And they think they are a good match for the industry, but they won’t be able to keep those jobs anymore than they could keep a “normal” job, because... well, potheads are more interested in getting and staying high than they are in showing up on time and acting in a professional manner.
Oh come on curmudgeons....
Made in the USA !
A Green Industry !
Creating jobs for Rif Raf !
(Will work for Buds)
Where’s the “bring jobs back to America guy?”
Man, I came to Colorado because they’re supposed to have premium weed here. Best deal was they’ll pay me in dope to grow it. Now I can be permanently stoned all the time. How cool is that?
My half brother in Denver says all this has actually driven-up the price of illicit weed and helped that business for some reason.
New research has emerged that may shed some light on the conundrum surrounding marijuana and strokes. While a French study linking cannabis use to strokes appeared in the media last month, a recent investigation into the effects of marijuana in relation to these cerebrovascular accidents, commonly referred to as strokes, indicates marijuana users are actually less likely to suffer the wrath of this disease.
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