It’s not conservative to only care about what happens to YOUR life. That’s the liberal way.
The war on drugs has in no way made the government view all its citizens as criminals. That’s nothing but pure paranoia speaking. No law enforcement activity related to drugs has affected me one bit. The only thing that has affected me is random checkpoints for drunk drivers. Yet I’m not so selfish and extreme that I would suggest legalizing drunk driving.
If there’s a certain aspect of enforcement that you feel affects you, you can pass a law to change that without throwing out the whole law. No illegal activity gives the police carte blanche to enforce it in any way they choose. There’s a vast difference between rewriting the laws on enforcement powers vs. just legalizing everything that you think might’ve been enforced in a bad way at some point.
You are delusional if you don’t think th WOD hasn’t fundamentally transformed our police departments, our law, and our liberties. How does sending a 20 yr old kid to prison for possessing pot make us a better society? How does restrictions on how you handle money make us a safer society? How does proving your ID just to buy meds that can be used illicitly make us a better society? All fallout of WOD.
And, as a conservative, I not only believe in a restricted government that doesn’t trample my (or your) liberties, I believe in personal responsibility.
Funny how someone can prove the opinion piece you wrote was propaganda, so you run to another tact.
Here is reality, CO has probably the hottest economy in the nation right now, proudly touting a 4% unemployment rate, and the hottest real estate market.
Yeah, all of those negative impacts of legalized marijuana.
Yes, there are bums on the street in Denver; there have always been bums on the street. People smoked pot here before 2012 (we had legal medical marijuana), and we functioned. People legally smoke pot now, we function.
If anything, your support of nanny-state government leads to hells like the current state of Mexico.
The idea that keeping something illegal will keep us safe is the same mental illness that gun control advocates have.