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The True Cost of Marijuana: A Colorado Town That Went All-In
The Epoch Times ^ | 10/27/2020 | Charlotte Cuthbertson

Posted on 10/27/2020 8:58:09 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants

PUEBLO, Colo.—It’s a common story across America: A city loses its main employer, usually a manufacturing company with well-paying, blue-collar jobs (that often go to China). The city’s economy crumbles, and those who can move out, do.

Decades later, and looking peeling-paint tired, the city hasn’t managed to recover, but drugs have found a permanent home.

In Pueblo, Colorado, the manufacturer was a steel plant beleaguered by a market crash in the 1980s and worker strikes in the 1990s. And one drug was given a red-carpet welcome.

For years, Pueblo has been looking for industries to revive its economy, and when recreational marijuana was legalized for retail sale in Colorado in 2014, many saw it as the answer. More people would be employed and the tax money would go to schools and infrastructure.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: busybodies; cannabis; drugaddiction; godsplant; marijuana; medicine; miracleplant; nannystate; pot; wod
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To: nickcarraway

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41 posted on 10/28/2020 5:19:20 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The NYT commits acts of violence with their words.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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42 posted on 10/28/2020 5:20:00 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The NYT commits acts of violence with their words.)
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To: Sequoyah101

And New Jersey is about to legalize it after it is voted in during this election. I’m sure of it.


43 posted on 10/28/2020 5:20:36 AM PDT by sgt_lau (Being tolerant to the most intolerant people on the planet is a losing proposition. Reject islam.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Not a claim, but a fact of present day life & historically.

The dosage should be determined by the patient & their doctor only.

Medicine is not a one-size-fits all box you just fit people into to satisfy some nanny-state need to be in control of what other people do.


44 posted on 10/28/2020 5:57:50 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: Lazamataz; Blood of Tyrants; LouAvul; ronnie raygun
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Waiter, I'll have some of what he's having. Plus a bag of Funyons.

45 posted on 10/28/2020 6:08:41 AM PDT by Jonah Hex
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To: nickcarraway; CaptainK

The OP maybe got their feelings hurt?

It’s just wrong for JR to do that.


46 posted on 10/28/2020 6:15:32 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“So economically, it’s been a benefit to the city,”

Yeah... the POLITICIANS.

Having traveled the country for my job, I’ve seen first hand what this has done for cities.

Used to love going to Colorado because the towns were nice little towns. Then the 0bama thing happened and then they legalized pot.

Now I hate going there. So many areas of those SAME nice little towns are unkempt and lots of vacant storefronts. And all along the way are dregs camped out like gangs. You can smell the burning bud and they come out like the walking dead to hit you up for money.

And the politicians who got the town “hooked” on legalization are NEVER gonna be able to get the town off this addiction.


47 posted on 10/28/2020 7:13:14 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: joethedrummer

Pretty much what happened in Europe. I do CBD and the benefits are amazing IF it works for you. I found the “pain benefits” of weed also exist with CBD. I never liked getting stoned but the sleep benefits are tempting especially as you age. They should legalize it more for older people. I’d love to grow a few plants as my son has a hemp farm and he knows how to do it.


48 posted on 10/28/2020 7:42:08 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: TheStickman

“Medicine is not a one-size-fits all”

No, but clearly there are dangerous levels of THC. Should you just be able to buy ANY drug at whatever strength you want even if it far above the safe level?


49 posted on 10/28/2020 8:22:20 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (If the meanings in the Constitution can change, why did they bother writing it down?)
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To: Sequoyah101
Pot heads are useless slackers just like drunks and druggies.

Because drunks are useless slackers, should we ban their drug? I say no.

50 posted on 10/28/2020 10:58:58 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Lazamataz

Oh yeah... wait... uh, what were we talking about?


51 posted on 10/28/2020 11:13:46 AM PDT by Pennsyltucky Boy (bitterly clinging to our constitutional rights in PA P)
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To: polymuser
“Yeah, they should just stick to harmless tobacco and alcohol.”

No no no. Add another drug. Then, another. Then, more. Let sober foreigners take all the jobs and degrees from our drug-fogged populace.

If adding drugs by legalization is bad, wouldn't subtracting the drug alcohol by criminalization be good? Do you support criminalizing alcohol? I don't

52 posted on 10/28/2020 12:00:04 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree

So you like drunks and all they do as well?

I don’t.

This is not a conservative site, it is libertarian for a lot.


53 posted on 10/28/2020 12:43:05 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

You have zero experience in determining what is too much for any individual consume. I highly recommend you educate yourself with people who use cannabis daily as a medicine. Better to speak with certain knowledge and experience than reciting propaganda and paid for garbage.

Just another freeper-Nanny stator (barf)


54 posted on 10/28/2020 2:01:10 PM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I have a suggestion.

Quit posting.

55 posted on 10/28/2020 2:37:25 PM PDT by Osage Orange (TRUMP!!!)
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To: Sequoyah101
Because drunks are useless slackers, should we ban their drug? I say no.

So you like drunks and all they do as well?

No - but I like even less how substance bans give a lucrative monopoly to criminals, thus increasing their means and motive for violence.

This is not a conservative site, it is libertarian for a lot.

JimRob has shown no interest in banning consistent advocates of limited government; if ypou don't like it, you know where the door is.

56 posted on 10/28/2020 3:40:18 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: TheStickman

You know nothing about me, dopehead. But the article is about the dangers of unrestricted RECREATIONAL use. Not prescribed by a doctor.


57 posted on 10/28/2020 4:33:29 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (If the meanings in the Constitution can change, why did they bother writing it down?)
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To: joethedrummer
Used to love going to Colorado because the towns were nice little towns. Then the 0bama thing happened and then they legalized pot. Now I hate going there. So many areas of those SAME nice little towns are unkempt and lots of vacant storefronts.

Have you ever actually been to Colorado?

58 posted on 10/28/2020 5:02:36 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

We have had legal pot in MA for a while. The buildings still stand. The streets are not any worse. And there are hardly any lines at the pot store anymore.


59 posted on 10/28/2020 5:05:04 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Name calling shows is evidence of a weak vocabulary & a weak mind.

I feel very sorry for you.

Nanny-state authoritarians are no different in my book than Nancy Pelosi & ChuckU “we know better than you what you should & should not do”.


60 posted on 10/28/2020 5:39:58 PM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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