Stoned: How Colorado's 5 Years of Legal Pot Is 'Devastating Communities'

CBN News ^ | 11-21-2017 | Dale Hurd

[antidisestablishment]

“... more states are saying “yes”, every cycle.“

Imagine that—states trying to raise more revenue from vice. Remember when the lottery was sold to fix education? It’s been roughly 30 since that scam was passed pretty much nation-wide. It’s unbelievable how much that did for education!

I’m all for legalization in the hope that it may start to move the country from its current war against citizens (AKA the war on drugs), but it won’t be a boon to anyone once the novelty wears off. If anything pot will be a drag on the economy, but at least it will help the government gain compliant taxpayers from the poorest areas.

[dragnet2]

I don't even know what state you're in, but I'll bet the productivity and economic numbers in CA are higher than your state or any state in the U.S., by a series of magnitudes.

So?

So? LOL!

Tell me, if pot did CA in, why does CA productivity and economy dwarf your state?

What's up with that?

[dragnet2]

And I saw your slave comment. Total jackassery.

[DiogenesLamp]

Tell me, if pot did CA in, why does CA productivity and economy dwarf your state?

If I need to explain the economics of California to you, I don't think you are ready for this discussion.

But to make it simple, California is rich, mostly because of Geography.

New York is also rich because of Geography.

[DiogenesLamp]

And I saw your slave comment. Total jackassery.

Well thank you. It gets the point across that wealth does not equal knowledge or wisdom or quality.

[wardaddy]

What does your opinion matter ...you only live there

We ...all knowing scold prone freepers ...we know better

I agree in Denver and Boulder that Colorado going legal attracted vagrant millenials

But I don’t think it created them

Colorado was the only legal place for a long time

Now California and Oregon and Washington are too

So younger rainbow tribe urchins have three more states to go to and street live

The irony is the main pot growing outdoor areas of southern Oregon and Northern California with a few exceptions all went Trump

I mean the county Cave Junction and Williams are in....amazing....

The effect of weed on politics and hippie vagrants is hard to peg and defies freeper and CBN conventional wisdom

Most weed today is agri business in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara and. East Denver

Huge huge commercial warehouse grows run by investors and companies

They have issues with quality though

The Dutch are big in LA metro ....corp Dutch

[FreeReign]

Colorado ranks first in the country for marijuana use among teens

Good work Colorado. You must be so proud.

[dragnet2]

I see, CA makes your states economy look like a 3rd rate hot dog stand and it's only because of the geography. Right? The geography did it, not everyone who lives and works in CA.

You didn't build that"! Ya sound just like Obama!

[dragnet2]

Your slave comment was bull shit. I know it and so do you.

Desperate much?

[DiogenesLamp]

I see, CA makes your states economy look like a 3rd rate hot dog stand and it's only because of the geography. Right? The geography did it, not everyone who lives and works in CA.

And why do these people live in California instead of Nevada? Think it through.

[DiogenesLamp]

Your slave comment was bull shit. I know it and so do you.

Well it certainly got a rise out of you, didn't it?

I think Will Rogers said that if you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, you can tell which one you hit because it's yelping.

:)

Money does not equal wisdom.

[george76]

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)

[dragnet2]

So it’s OK for you to spit up cow flop as long as you think it gets a rise out of people? Really? This is your defense and position in this exchange? Ya sure you wanna stick with that?

[morphing libertarian]

You have twisted sense of freedom. you don’t establish freedom by making them illegal. That is the opposite of freedom. If people break the law likes DUI or burglaries to feed the habit put them in prison.

[NobleFree]

Many times more don't go on to pursue harder drugs.

What percentage of our population should we regard as expendable?

"Scientists have long recognized that cigarettes and alcohol raise the risk for later use of illicit drugs like marijuana and cocaine. In a recent national survey, over 90% of adult cocaine users between the ages of 18 and 34 had smoked cigarettes before they began using cocaine." - https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/why-nicotine-gateway-drug

Do you support banning tobacco - or do you regard a percentage of our population as expendable?

[kitchen]

I gather you don't live near a ski town?

[dragnet2]

I tell you CA economy is a global powerhouse economy and you tell me it's because of the geography, implying the millions of people working their asses off here just sit around and smoke pot...lol

Then ya said Californians are nuts because of their wealth. Right?

Then ya said the "Utter mess that is California was not a good enough canary?" suggesting pot destroyed CA.

You say a lot of thing!☺

Did you not know CA politics were liberal prior to them ever legalizing pot? Do ya see where your argument is headed?

[MileHi]

I agree in Denver and Boulder that Colorado going legal attracted vagrant millenials

But I don’t think it created them

Colorado was the only legal place for a long time

I think that is about right. I have also seen reports that disagree with this report. And with the political situation in Denver, it isn't surprising things are going to hell. It isn't just pot heads that are on the rise, so are illegal aliens. And gangs. I call it Detroit on the Platte.

[laplata]

“And here on the western slope of Colorado, I’d never know it was legal”.

Come down to Durango and you’ll know.

[Yaelle]

Nailed it. Federalism is awesome. States can learn from each other. If they open their closed little minds sometimes.