Posted on 12/27/2014 4:02:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Colorado emerged as the state with the second-highest percentage of regular marijuana users as it began legalizing the drug, according to a new national study. The Denver Post reports the study by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health found about 1 out of 8 Colorado residents older than 12 had used marijuana in the past month. Only Rhode Island topped Colorado in the percentage of residents who reported using pot as often, according to the study.
The study averaged state-specific data over two-year periods. It found that, for the 2011-2012 period, 10.4 percent of Colorado residents 12 and older said they had used pot in the month before being surveyed. That number jumped to 12.7 percent in the 2012-2013 data. That means about 530,000 people in Colorado use marijuana at least once a month, according to the results. Nationally, about 7.4 percent of people 12 and older reported monthly marijuana use. That's an increase of about 4 percent.
The survey is among the first to quantify pot use in Colorado since late 2012, when voters approved legal pot use and possession for those over 21. But the survey did not analyze data from 2014, when recreational marijuana shops opened, which means it is not a good indication of the effect of commercial sales on marijuana use.
"I don't think this tells us about the long-term impacts of legalization," said University of California, Los Angeles, professor Mark Kleiman, who studies marijuana policy. The number of medical marijuana patients in Colorado rose over the same time period, so the results are not surprising, Kleiman said.
He told The Post that researchers will have a better idea about pot use in the first state to legalize recreational sales of the drug once they can focus on data showing how many people use pot daily.
Naaaaah!
DUH.
Attention Captain Obvious!!
File this under bottom story of the day
I think we need a tax payer funded Gubberment study to either confirm or deny these findings.
.... and sales of Doritos.
I see your duh and raise you a duh.
Triple duh.
The good news is that they cannot prempt federal law and Colorado and the pot head states will soon be stopped!!! I CANT WAIT!!
There is a reason that the set location of The Walking Dead looks like Colorado.
Was this reported by Capt. Obvious or Giraldo?
“The good news is that they cannot prempt federal law and Colorado and the pot head states will soon be stopped!!! I CANT WAIT!!”
You just CAN’T WAIT for a fedgov that is big, powerful, costly and freedom taking enough to go after Colorado pot users, even after they voted in favor?
Historical Unemployment Rate, Colorado:
Jan 2011: 8.76%
Jan 2012: 8.30% (Pot legalized Nov. 2012)
Jan 2013: 7.30%
Jan 2014: 6.20%
Nov 2014: (latest) 4.10%
They all got jobs at the pot farms, I guess.
Are employers allow to fire workers who test positive for THC?
Feel better after relieving yourself on the Tenth Amendment? You could learn from Dr. Walter E. Williams, a man who respects the Constitution. From July 03, 2013 =>
The heartening news for us is that state legislatures are beginning to awaken to their duty to protect their citizens from unconstitutional acts by the Congress, the White House and a derelict Supreme Court.
According to an Associated Press story, about four-fifths of the states now have local laws that reject or ignore federal laws on marijuana use, gun control, health insurance requirements and identification standards for driver's licenses. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback recently signed a measure threatening felony charges against federal agents who enforce certain firearms laws in his state.
--http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/13/DistrustingGovernment.htm
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