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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Where ever mj is legalized, other drug use goes up. OR is getting ruined now. Huge increase in meth and heroin along with increased mj dopers, and of course homelessness, crime, and so on and so forth.
It’s a lie that people switch from other drugs to mj if mj is legalized. It just means a positive drug culture - wheeee it’s all good! more drug use. Oh, and more prostitution, too.
Or are they marginal people who dropped out of life to move to a state where pot was legal and ended up on the streets?
In that case, when other states legalize, maybe some of the offenders or troublesome people might just move back where they came from.
Or is it really the case that Coloradans are giving up their jobs (or not getting jobs) just to enjoy the pot (which they still have to pay for somehow)?
In other words, assuming the reports are true, is people's behavior really changing drastically or are people who behave in a certain way relocating to a state where it's more convenient for them?
“It’s far more detrimental to society than pot.”
As far as I can tell, all the homeless here in California are drunks first. And primarily.
George Soros and the democrat party want this.
A stoned hippie is a democrat forever.
I live in Colorado Springs, CO - and the vagrants are everywhere. But I wonder if several years of mild winters have anything to do with the problem. They can find pot on the black market, from street dealers, etc. In my partying days in the 70’s there was no problem finding pot if you wanted it. That’s probably still true.
A bitterly cold, snowy winter might make these beggars go back to Frisco. We’re at 74 degrees today. We’ve had weeks of mild temps. No snow or real cold in the forecast for another 10 days it looks like.
Now you've gone and done it. Watch the "Libertarians" come out of the woodwork to denounce you and your article!
As far as I can tell, all the homeless here in California are drunks first. And primarily.
The reason I say weed is not as detrimental as alcohol is because marijuana is illegal. And so is used far far less than booze.
Just guessing on my part, but if marijuana and alcohol were equally legal and used in equal amounts, we'd be in deep deep (obama) with the dope problems in this country.
One of the things you can always count on is Libertarian attempts to make prohibition = drug war.
Alcohol has been with humanity for 10 million years. We've evolved to process it. It is part of many cultures and long accepted in Human history.
This ditch weed stuff is by contrast a far more recent event in western culture.
The utter mess that is California was not a good enough canary?
And the Venezuelans are utterly shocked that communism has left them starving and impoverished. They just didn't see it coming.
Is under assault by drug lunatics who will wreck society and make us all less free.
Not a reasonable statement. We have no idea what would happen to society if pot usage was on the level of alcohol usage.
I say look at the history of China between 1840 and 1960. This experiment has already been tried.
And more and more millennials are saying they like socialism.
People are getting stupider with each passing year.
Lunatic Californians leaving the mess they created in California and traveling to a new state to mess it up too.
They are like locusts, but with money.
I’m completely against recreational drug “legalization” but am a staunch federalist about the issue. It should be handled by and in the individual states, not federally.
But there is a real hazard to a patchwork of states allowing it to some degree. States have margins, in which people living there often live in two worlds. What if a person lives in a state straddling city, working in one and living in another? This is a frequent condition. The cross-border risks of criminality when pot is legal in one and criminalized in another is a very real dilemma.
As long as there is no encroachment or demands on a criminalizing state by a neighboring legalized state, I’d be okay with it.
I got sucker punched in the gut by the Catholic High School Principal/Priest for suggesting that was true. 1968
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