You’re on a conservative board. Try acting conservative and being informed on the issues affecting your own state before you post.
http://www.newsweek.com/unexpected-side-effects-legalizing-weed-339931
...a drip, drip, drip of unintended consequences. Law-enforcement issues, such as marijuana-intoxicated driving and the illegal movement of vast amounts of cannabis product into other states, are the tip of the iceberg.
Other symptoms of Colorado’s pot culture include increased use among teens, resulting in educational problems in middle schools and high schools, a spike in “ediblesâ€-related emergency room visits, consumption by children and pets resulting in illness and death and regulatory confusion surrounding public consumption and enforcement.
...the cost of increased law enforcement, drugged-driving incidents, fatal crashes, loss of productivity and a huge spike in gang-related crime bring into question the cost-benefit of those dollars.
Teen drug-related school expulsions are also on the rise. And the notion that prisons filled with minor drug offenders would be relieved of overcrowding—a selling point of legalizing marijuana—has been blown to smithereens.
Denver’s homeless population has exploded since Amendment 64 went into effect.
Let me see. Hmmm. Sigh. Yes, let’s have someone who lives across the country lecture someone living in the state that has legalized marijuana about what is going on in their state.
Here, right back at you:
I am a small government conservative. That means I want less government. The war on drugs has brought us nothing but big, intrusive, government and transitioned law enforcement into a gestapo organization that views all “citizens” as criminals.
Enough already.
Don’t pick and choose your biased articles. I live here; I even dare to work in Boulder county, the heart of the liberal movement in this state, and in many ways, the country. And guess what. My life has not changed one bit since marijuana was legalized. Crime happened before, people smoked pot before. Crime happens now, people smoke pot now.
But, I don’t have to worry about the “pot” dealer meeting his customers at the park across from my house anymore.