|
wrap this up. Let's git 'er done.
Posted on 11/30/2014 6:03:08 PM PST by Olog-hai
… The data coming out of Colorado is exhibit A on why voters should reject legalization efforts. Even the Democratic governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper, said that legalizing marijuana in Colorado was “reckless.” As I have written at Heritage, pot-positive traffic fatalities have gone up 100 percent since voters legalized pot in Colorado. This is true despite the fact that overall traffic fatalities in Colorado have gone down since 2007.
A report by a federal grant-funded agency in Colorado found seven specific negative side effects that pot legalization has caused in Colorado:
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
Here we go again...
Color me stunned.
I have a serious question. Are the effects of marijuana increased in high-altitude environments? Does it slow down response time? Because if that’s the case, CO would be about the worst place to legalize marijuana.
Elections have consequences.
|
If the author has so many excellent data points, why doesn’t he use the absolute number instead of the relative change?
If there used to be a whopping TWO mary-jane related fatalities and it increased to FOUR, that would be a 100% increase from danged near nothing to still nothing.
I suspect he’s embarrassed by the paucity of his counts, otherwise, he’d use them.
There’s someplace called anyplace I heard of that is absolutely the worst place to legalize marijuana.
It seems to me that if pot smoking impairs blood flow to the brain, then altitude would increase the effect.
A study should be made before more states legalize.
Whether it is legal or illegal has no bearing at all on whether or not people use it or do not use it.
It is always there regardless of its legality.
People choose to use it or choose to not use it for their own reasons.
If a any given person has this personal demon, then that person will have to battle that demon on his own. Wether or not that battle is won or lost is entirely up to that person and God.
Laws cannot save people from themselves.
It was never about the “medical” aspect as in California, it was about getting high. I know people who are stoned on grass 24 hours a day. I see young high school students smoking pot while waiting for a bus, oblivious to anyone and unashamed. I see people smoking behind gas stations while waiting for their tank to fill, so anticipating the buzz, they cannot smoke the joint fast enough. There are strains that have the “medical” ingredient without giving the user the buzz but it is rejected by proponents, it is the buzz they crave. I could go on but I will not waste my time just as grass is a waste of time and a life.
>>have gone up 100 percent
Is that 2, up from 1?
Percentages without numbers are lies 80% of the time. </sarc>
Altitude could play a part; there are no statistics like this coming from Washington, the other state that legalized.
Have Alcohol related DUIs, etc. showed a corresponding drop?
Typically, this kind of statistic means the total number went from 1 to 2, and that it was a passenger that tested positive.
“It was never about the “medical” aspect as in California...”
Ha!
That’s funny. Someone actually thinks CA MM is not about stoners getting high.
From where will anyone pick up some sort of standard of behavior that can help steer them in life?
Again -- I'm not sure legislation is the very best place for the rule, but if the government shouts out: "Pot's OK!!" you will certainly have more people use the stuff. Then you've gone from government trying to legislate morality over to government basically announcing that there's no real harm in it.
Not sure that's helping our society avoid the slope toward the abyss.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.