And all this time I thought it was Trumps fault for the homelessness.
Isn’t this from CBS? They are the libs that are reporting it. Maybe they missed the memo.
Oh, CBN. Not CBS.My bad.
Mr.Leroy would give it the old college try. If he were here.
whodathunkit ...
Legal Marijuana was inevitable the moment Alcohol was legalized. Even Americans can’t put up with that level of hypocrisy. Though God knows we gave it a good try.
More jobs for my kids!
I live in the Springs. I am telling you that homelessness in the Springs just a few years ago was not that bad (I have donated time / money to the CS Rescue Mission in the past). Now I literally see fights between homeless to camp out at their favorite intersections begging. It is getting real bad.
Between the school system and legalized pot, we moved out of Colorado.
A whole era of anti - war, anti Vietnam, Beatles, Peace protesters grew cup on this diet... and now they are government officials.
What could possibly go wrong???
I think it was a poor decision to legalize it.
But as an intended federated union of the several states, this is precisely the sort of state-level legislation that I would like to see. Imagine the two scenarios:
#1) Colorado has had legal marijuana for some years. Tax revenue to through the roof! Drug-related crime is down! Agriculture is booming! Everybody is happy!
#2) It’s been a disaster! Crime is up! Welfare is up! Homelessness is up! Tax revenue can’t keep up with the rising cost of social services. This is awful!
Once you get real evidence that either #1 or #2 is the outcome of legal marijuana, then other states can decide on how they want to handle such legislation. Until it is put into practice, all you have is opinion: “It’s gonna be awesome!” or “Those darn kids will ruin everything!”
For better or worse, I see Colorado as the canary in the coal mine.
That’s exactly what the intention was. To create more parasites to take money from those who don’t f*ck up their brains and who actually go to work to pay exorbitant taxes.
I’m shocked! Who would have thought that pot legalization would lead to more people smoking pot and the abuse that goes along with it?
My wife and I often try to get to Durango, CO. We love that town and the mountain biking is great in that area.
We were there before and after legalization of pot. What a huge difference we noticed after legalization. There were groups of 20-somethings begging on street corners. In Durango, really? One of the store owners told us that people just started to show up and some even started sleeping in their store doorways. While the owner was generally for legalization, she was shocked how many people just flooded to Colorado and she believed they didn’t think about getting jobs to pay for their pot. Jersey is next — an uglier version of Colorado.
So... it isn't creating homeless substance abusers, it is merely attracting them... which means that the numbers for every other location are dwindling. Yet another benefit of legal pot.
Further, if they are switching from harder drugs to pot, because it is legal, this is a truly massive benefit in the War on Drugs. Yet another benefit of legal pot.
And here on the western slope of Colorado, I’d never know it was legal.
I know the libs (ertarians) will soon be along to deny these reports, but it is what it is.
These marijuana threads tend to attract comments in two major categories. One is the libertarian opinion, that marijuana should be legal, based on people’s own personal responsibility and personal desires whether or not to use pot.
The other is that marijuana use can be dangerous, that it was made illegal for a reason, and that legalization/commercialization gives a societal and government endorsement of drug use.
And then people argue back and forth, with libertarian types saying they have the right to use any substance they want, and nanny staters have no right to restrict them. Then others say that marijuana use/abuse imposes great social costs on all of us, and thus such use should not be legal for those reasons.