Posted on 12/19/2015 7:08:57 AM PST by rktman
As another month goes by in Colorado's marijuana legalization experiment, Denver's 2015 crime wave cranks up yet another notch.
November's crime data is out for the city, and it doesn't tell a pretty story. There were another eight murders in Denver during November, bringing the year-to-date total to 50, which is more than 72 percent higher than last year's numbers.
Across the board, other violent crime in Denver is also skyrocketing this year. The number of rapes has increased 16 percent, robberies are up 13 percent, and aggravated assaults are up 14 percent based on the UCR standards and up 15 percent using the NIBRS definition.
Overall violent crime has increased 14 percent. Total crimes are up almost 4 percent.
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I would want to know if marijuana had any role in the increased crime rate. Are more people driving under the influence of marijuana? Is there more public intoxication? Are people high on drugs committing violent crime?? I just wonder if we are seeing cause and effect here.
I’m no expert on weed; I’ve never even tried it. But when I talk to people over on reddit who have relationship problems, one common theme I always notice is this: they’re miserable with their family/lover/roommate or whatever, but they don’t have the money to move out. They “can’t” work. They have too many “issues” to work. They “need” weed to stay calm. They play games and smoke weed during most of their free time, and some of them report paying up to $400 a month for the weed. So legal or not, I can see how it contributes to people’s problems.
No you’re not.
Yeah, a lot more info would be needed to connect the pots. I mean dots.
While I don’t think marijuana use itself is causing the increase in crime, the legalization is attracting a criminal element.
But, according to them, the weed is not the problem.
There are a lot of factors that need to be controlled to be able to say if this is related to legalized pot. One is just simply that the population of Colorado is growing by leaps and bounds. Another could be immigrants.
Marijuana use is linked to the development of psychosis, especially in those who use it before brain development is complete (at about age 25). Psychosis is closely linked to criminal behavior. That could contribute to the crime wave.
While I am no fan of marijuana, I’m trying to figure out the direct correlation. What scares me about weed legalization is that I know people who say they would never drive drunk, but claim they can drive fine while ‘high’. I can see that as more of a threat than other crimes.
The legalization of pot is not, and never has been a good idea. This extends to other drugs too.
I understand the libertarian argument, and simply disagree.
No, it’s not going to make you insane as “Reefer Madness” implied, but it is...without question a gateway drug that opens the door to other substances.
Stoners are not laid back, especially with modern pot. Paranoia and irrational rages, in fact, have long been known as side effects of heavy or regular marijuana use. Many (if not most) of the perps of these current crime waves have the active ingredient of marijuana in their blood at the time of arrest, and this is also true in the case of DUI arrests now, Where marijuana impairment exceeds alcohol impairment.
One of the other problems is that legalization is considered approval, and furthermore, has meant that little attempt is made to enforce minimum age limit laws, etc. This has resulted in a huge surge in adolescent marijuana use. Someone I was talking to when I was in Colorado this fall told me she is taking her children out of public school precisely because marijuana use among the students is so tolerated there. Pot is very easy to get now, and the kids literally stand in front of the school taking up before class.
Good question. What percentage of these crimes were committed by those under the influence of marijuana?
“... it’s not going to make you insane....” Uh, you seen Willie Nelson talk about uncle bernie and the hildebeast? He thinks they’re great. So,.................. :>)
I don’t thin it’s the weed, it’s the lowlifes it attracts. Not all potheads are lowlifes, but the scumbags are everywhere.
Toking up, that would be...my autocorrect didn’t approve of it, LOL!
Incidentally, the state is so tied to the money it’s getting from marijuana that a real attempt is made to hide these statistics and what is known about their connection with pot use.
Weed-delivery driver carjacked in San Francisco
Coming soon to weed delivery service near you?
A few interests with visions of immense profit tried that in OH. Amazing.....OH voters actually read what it was, a money grab by the gov for taxes and some connected folks who would benefit from a profitable protected monopoly. It was voted down, and it wasn't even that close.
Even the stoners "got it" that "legalization would give the gov control over even more aspects of their lives. One provision was that people could grow something like four marijuana plants, for their private use. But they'd have to register, which would give the gov an excuse to inspect the marijuana plants in their home.
And if they were caught with marijuana that someone grew, or couldn't prove it was state sanctioned, they were criminals.
Pretty scary, huh? Some even hypothesized that growing or buying legal marijuana, because it's registered could lead to the loss of second amendment rights.
I have no doubt it’ll pass in NV come November.
Oregon is next...pot shops popping up EVERYWHERE
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