Posted on 11/27/2017 12:47:57 PM PST by fwdude
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.
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.
‘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.
Blame Obama.
CBD is not intoxicating in any way. Who cares.
‘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.
Been headed that way for decades.
Paonia Gold??
They just have to infest everything good don’t they?!
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.
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.
Are these red states or blue states?
Yeah I thought so.
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
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!
I’ve always thought of Manitou Springs as a hippie town, so I’m not suprised you saw it there. Lol
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!
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