Own it.
Washington state became a homeless camp shortly after legalization.
An honest person would have to admit that there would be negative consequences. Just like legalizing casino gaming had negative consequences.
What you mean potheads LIED to us to get pot?
What drug user would do something like that?!?
I won’t give you a hard time but who ever wrote this, should not write for a living, so many things wrong with their writing skills it’s like a fifth grader could do better!
Whut?..................
Let me just say this: The scum that were attracted by legalization were scum before they were attracted.
It is legalization in enclaves, inevitable with state by state action, that creates these kinds of scum magnets.
The street idiots you describe were street idiots before, but they lived somewhere else before legalization. They were more evenly distributed.
If legalization was more common, they’d go back to their natural distribution.
You see a similar thing with gambling. Gambling addicts are more concentrated in areas where gambling is legal. But they were gambling addicts, anyway. (Not an exactly parallel argument, I admit, with the advent of internet gambling, but partially on-point. Hell, there’s always day-trading.)
I am a Colorado resident that opposed legalization.
Still do, Mostly for the reasons above.
Don’tcha’ just love the “victimless crime” excuse.
Good Job! Comes to the obvious point, right away. Makes sense out of nonsense. If no tobacco, why dope?
Just doing the jobs our Mexicans used to do.
Drugs or not, we shouldn't be allowed to physically hurt others. Drugs or not, taxpayers shouldn't have to pay people to say poor. Personal responsibility is much more anti-drug than any drug law.
My problem with my fellow libertarian minded peers is they're more pro-pot than they are libertarian on anything else. I'm for government doing what it's supposed to do bigly (i.e. federal government should have a strong military to protect us, local governments should protect us from civilian violence). Keep the government out of our way in other areas, though (i.e. legalize pot).
Seems like an idea case for letting the “states as laboratories of democracy” sort it out. If some states legalize, and it doesn’t go well, then it will be to the benefit of those states that don’t.
I was in Colorado a few months back. A small town.
No grocery stores, no schools, no drug stores, no pharmacies, no banks and 2-3 crappy places to eat.
But it did have a dollar store. And most importantly - -
IT HAD 3 MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES.
https://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20140717/marijuana-paranoia
Study showing a significant increase in paranoid ideation in normal subjects administered marijuana
Can you imagine the uproar if Colorado decided to reverse the clock and MCPF (Make Colorado Pot Free!) again?
“We tried, folks, but it’s not who we really are.
To tell the truth, i’ts kind of a drag! On the economy and on our health”
It would be scary and amusing if watched from a great distance. I’m sure the Hollywood big mouths would have something to say about it too.
What is the Opioid Overdose Death Rate in Colorado?
What is the Opioid Overdose Death Rate in Ohio?
What is the Opioid Overdose Death Rate in West Virginia?
Colorado-9.5
Ohio-32.9
West Virginia-43.6
West Virginia and Ohio have far greater drug problems than Colorado.
What the older Freepers don’t understand is that the modern version of pot is a genetically modified substance that is substantially more powerful than what was around in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. It has long term impact on the brains of its users. Wake up people.
I don't want to support that. Just another land mine to avoid.
In Colorado, where pot is legal, Life Expectancy is 80.
In West Virginia, where pot is illegal, Life Expectancy is 75.4.
In Mississippi, where pot is illegal,Life Life Expectancy is 75.