Posted on 06/11/2019 9:08:58 AM PDT by fwdude
A bill to legalize recreational marijauna in Illinois needs only the signature of Gov. J.B. Pritzker to become law. Colorado has had legal recreational marijuana since 2014. The Colorado Division of Criminal Justice last year came out with an analysis of the effects of the state's legalization of retail sales of marijuana since it went into effect in 2014. It found teen use had not increased, but hospital visits and fatal accidents associated with marijuana use increased. The authors cautioned that many factors can influence the statistics in the report, including people's willingness to admit marijuana use now that it's legalized in the state. Here is a rundown of some of the major findings.
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I studied a lawsuit in Seattle which tests the same and the motorist tested toxic even two weeks after his last smoke
After pot was legalized last fall in Canada, our condo board’s insurance premiums for the property went up considerably. Correlation -> causation?
Well, no, it probably has a lot more to do with the two damaging wind storms we had last summer than damaged roofs and knocked down trees.
Interesting.
On a related subject, never mind pot not being meth, it’s not even alcohol where driving impairment is involved. I know how much I need to drink over what period to reach the legal limit (about 5 12 oz beers over the period of an hour or so), and my impairment level from that is way above what just about any amount of dope could do to me.
If they had actually read it they likely would not have posted it
It’s not quite up to narrative
I’ve spent a lot time in colorado
Sadly it’s not the colorado I knew as a boy....a cowboy state with Denver as it’s Dallas
Then the California folks came
Then the Hispanics streamed in
Now it’s like California
The eastern prairie and western slope are only place remotely like I remember from fifty years ago
When colorado went medical it brought in pot transients was first thing I noticed
Then when rec came that increased
Colorado is now not alone and I’d guess the draw has slowed
I have said here before I preferred medical laws which made it available but more restricted
Rec brought more tax revenue though
So it is the Mango Sorbet of stoning.
No, in 2018 State Farm -alone- paid out 600 million in hail claims. And that was up 37% from the year before which was also bad.
Hail is driving this, not those wind storms. Especially when speaking of auto insurance.
Correlation -> causation?
Exactly. Correlation isn’t causation. Every time I break wind, 18 people in China fall dead of a heart attack. But my gas isn’t killing Chinamen.
Nothingburger:
“The Healthy Kids Colorado Survey of more than 50,000 middle and high school students found that the percentage of youths using marijuana in the past 30 days remained unchanged between 2014 and 2017, at 19 percent.”
“Researchers say it’s unclear to what extent marijuana caused the increase [in hospitalization rates with possible marijuana exposures, diagnoses or billing codes], or how much the rise was due to people coming in for other reasons who happened to have also consumed pot.”
I don’t doubt you, I was just supporting the repudiation of the correlation equals causation fallacy.
Statistics can be useful if you’re really looking for truth and willing to spend the intellectual effort to understand what they may really mean. OTOH, if you’re just looking to bolster some pre-determined point of view... they’re also useful when misused.
Just keep telling yourself that. We know the truth.
Were the levels of thc measured in thier umbilical cord toxically high? What were the numbers.
I can’t tell you how many times people cite.. my kids were born after i regularly took lsd.. That is not science and it doesn’t have comparable data sets.
It would however land you a great job at the ipcc predicting global warming.
Unfortunately, data comparison is my 30 year career... so it’s not skepticism, it’s a job hazard.
"Toxic" defined how? Researchers have never managed to kill a single lab animal larger than a rat with THC.
> hospital visits and fatal accidents associated with marijuana use increased
That’s because of edibles.
-SB
Read today that in calipornia the legal pot sellers are up in arms over the illegal ones and want the cops to come down hard on Dem!
I have had my medical license for many years- long before we had legal pot. I don't smoke weed but have found relief with CBD and THC oils, tinctures and salves. States that have medical weed available have lower rates of opioid use and seniors are a huge consumer of weed products.
Everyone just needs to keep their minds open on all this. As with any big change, there are bumps in the road. Overall, I think it has been a positive experience for Colorado and I support it.
LOL, they would propose something like that anyway on the grounds that they are dangerous and besides so few people have the needed permit it would only harm the ‘crazies’. They are vindictive like that. The type of people who would harass a baker with requests to make a cake depicting a devil in an act of sodomy, then sue him when he refuses.
Well you probably also want to dump it out before you drive, because a load of bong water spilled on the carpet of your car is not ideal.
“Uptick in folks getting too high and running to the emergency room having a panic attack...”
The problem isn’t smoking or dabbing, it’s the edibles. Idiots refuse to listen when the guy in the dispensary warns them that “one gummie bear is enough”, and then end up thinking they are going to die when they start tripping.
True. Looked pretty dirty, though. And they stayed a while after that. Mostly they just look at the lake, talk, and laugh like idiots.
I myself warn newbies to try one first even though I don’t smoke
Cause like the North I remember
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