You didn't build that"! Ya sound just like Obama!
Posted on 11/27/2017 12:47:57 PM PST by fwdude
This week marks the fifth anniversary of Colorado's legalization of the commercial marijuana trade, and the reviews aren't good.
An editorial in the Colorado Springs Gazette reports, "Five years of retail pot coincide with five years of a homelessness growth rate that ranks among the highest rates in the country. Directors of homeless shelters, and people who live on the streets, tell us homeless substance abusers migrate here for easy access to pot."
The paper says, "Five years of Big Marijuana ushered in a doubling in the number of drivers involved in fatal crashes who tested positive for marijuana, based on research by the pro-legalization Denver Post. Five years of commercial pot have been five years of more marijuana in schools than teachers and administrators ever feared."
(Excerpt) Read more at 1.cbn.com ...
“... 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.
So?
So? LOL!
Tell me, if pot did CA in, why does CA productivity and economy dwarf your state?
What's up with that?
And I saw your slave comment. Total jackassery.
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.
Well thank you. It gets the point across that wealth does not equal knowledge or wisdom or quality.
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
Good work Colorado. You must be so proud.
You didn't build that"! Ya sound just like Obama!
Your slave comment was bull shit. I know it and so do you.
Desperate much?
And why do these people live in California instead of Nevada? Think it through.
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.
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
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?
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.
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?
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?
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.
“And here on the western slope of Colorado, I’d never know it was legal”.
Come down to Durango and you’ll know.
Nailed it. Federalism is awesome. States can learn from each other. If they open their closed little minds sometimes.
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