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Stoned: How Colorado's 5 Years of Legal Pot Is 'Devastating Communities'
CBN News ^ | 11-21-2017 | Dale Hurd

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."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Colorado
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To: fwdude
Five years of retail pot coincide with five years of a homelessness growth rate that ranks among the highest rates in the country.

Colorado's real estate market has also been absolutely booming during that same time period. Perhaps a lack of affordable housing may play a role?

Directors of homeless shelters, and people who live on the streets, tell us homeless substance abusers migrate here for easy access to pot.

So, picking up and moving to Colorado when you otherwise have no money is easier than finding weed where they once lived? This one doesn't even pass the smell test.

41 posted on 11/27/2017 1:22:46 PM PST by gdani (Everyone is a snowflake these days)
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To: Ros42
I️ was at the big holiday craft show in Denver about 10 days ago. There were at least 2 booths selling cbd oil and other products. At a holiday food and gift show....
42 posted on 11/27/2017 1:24:13 PM PST by Mom MD ( .)
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To: fwdude

Some bad things seem to be happening in Colorado but I’m not seeing it in eastern WA State. I guess there might be more positive blood tests for THC but THEY BARELY DID ANY TESTING before mj was legalized. Of course there are more positives now. My impression is that pretty much the same people use it now as used before.


43 posted on 11/27/2017 1:27:13 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: fwdude

‘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.’

Editorials do not ‘report,’ they editorialize.

That’s why they are called ‘editorials’ and not reports.


44 posted on 11/27/2017 1:29:22 PM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: fatez

Blame Obama.


45 posted on 11/27/2017 1:29:41 PM PST by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Teacher317

46 posted on 11/27/2017 1:30:21 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Mom MD

CBD is not intoxicating in any way. Who cares.


47 posted on 11/27/2017 1:30:32 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: gdani

‘So, picking up and moving to Colorado when you otherwise have no money is easier than finding weed where they once lived? This one doesn’t even pass the smell test.’

It is as if they believe that people are abandoning their actual homes in Waco, Texas and moving to Colorado where they will be homeless.


48 posted on 11/27/2017 1:32:55 PM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: Newbomb Turk

Been headed that way for decades.


49 posted on 11/27/2017 1:32:59 PM PST by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Paonia Gold??


50 posted on 11/27/2017 1:33:29 PM PST by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: Mom MD

They just have to infest everything good don’t they?!


51 posted on 11/27/2017 1:34:03 PM PST by Ros42
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To: Teacher317

52 posted on 11/27/2017 1:34:15 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Ros42

I moved far away from Colorado because of the influx of Californians. The Colorado folks always complained about the Texans. That was supposed to be about their behavior.
The complaint I had with Californicators is their beliefs and their goal to change Colorado.
It is too late now. I moved out in 1993.


53 posted on 11/27/2017 1:34:37 PM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: fwdude

Pot is bad. Like drinking is bad. Neither is generally helpful to the human condition, since both tend to find large numbers of abusers. Both find more abusers when legal.

I’m noting this as the son of an alcoholic and a bystander in WA where legalization of pot is creating havoc ... just like excess drinking does.

My school teacher wife reports of so many problems with parents who either drink or smoke dope. With welfarism, they are the common threads.


54 posted on 11/27/2017 1:36:53 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (IT'S OKAY TO BE WHITE.)
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To: Teacher317

Are these red states or blue states?

Yeah I thought so.


55 posted on 11/27/2017 1:37:24 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: fwdude

Let’s see, the “article” starts with quoting the opinion piece in the Gazette here:
http://gazette.com/editorial-the-sad-anniversary-of-big-commercial-pot-in-colorado/article/1614900 that’s all this “article”

So lets go thru the opinion piece at the Gazette. The author makes some anecdotal claims that the smell of “pot” is all over the place. Author makes a fallacious suggestion the homelessness that exists in Colorado & legal cannabis are somehow tied together. Then there is a claim from “homeless shelter directors” that “people who live on the streets, tell us homeless substance abusers migrate here for easy access to pot.”

I stopped reading at this point because it’s pure BS, IMO. If people decided to migrate to Colorado for “easy access to pot”, doesn’t that say more about their poor judgement & lack of personal responsibility than cannabis being legal? Reminds me of how progressives demonize SUVs in the news. It’s never the “driver of the SUV did X” it’s “3 people died when a SUV went off the road...”, like the SUV is sentient. Cannabis is just as sentient as SUV’s are lol.

I swallowed my disgust & finished reading the whole “article”. As in many opinion pieces there’s lots of FUD and no way to actually verify their claims. Claiming unnamed “experts” predict this & that. Reminds me of anti-Trump articles that were in abundance ON FR with all sorts of fallacious claims that in the end were refuted after we took the time to verify their accuracy or the lack thereof.

Sad to see CBN posting prohibitionist nonsense. Just my 2 cents. YMMV


56 posted on 11/27/2017 1:39:22 PM PST by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: fwdude

Democrats are the worst people on the face of the earth. In Louisville, KY, the opiod epidemic is out of control along with meth and fentenyl.

What do the lefties think is needed to make up the massive budget hole in the pension crisis?

Legal pot and/or casinos.

Dam them!


57 posted on 11/27/2017 1:41:28 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: HereInTheHeartland

I’ve always thought of Manitou Springs as a hippie town, so I’m not suprised you saw it there. Lol


58 posted on 11/27/2017 1:41:29 PM PST by Ros42
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To: BatGuano

I had never seen such an influx of people as the Californians into the Denver area back then! About 3 years ago when we moved I saw a large amount of Illinois license plates there.. they are probably there for pot and politics!


59 posted on 11/27/2017 1:50:06 PM PST by Ros42
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To: unixfox
And all this time I thought it was Trumps fault for the homelessness.

We kinda suspected that the legalization of smoking weed in our high schools was going to lead to criminal behaviors from our young men and young women. The ones that are smart say a big "No" to weed smoking.

They get too addicted to smoking the weed that all they want to do is veg out everyday.

It is no wonder that we noticed there were not too many folks attending at a recent college football game. It was a bit chilly so maybe they did not attend because of the weather or the weed smoking?

60 posted on 11/27/2017 1:52:20 PM PST by TheConservativeTejano
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