Posted on 01/04/2014 9:02:25 PM PST by Ken H
A few days into the experiment, the new world of legal recreational marijuana sales in Colorado appears to be a big success—so much so that pot shops are finding it impossible to keep up with demand.
According to the Denver Post, at least 37 stores in Colorado were licensed to sell recreational pot to anyone 21 or over as of New Year’s Day. The Associated Press and others reported long lines outside Denver pot shops, with some eager customers forced to wait three to five hours before getting a chance to go inside, step up to the counter, and make a purchase.
Prices have been steep—in some cases, stores were charging $50 or even $70 for one-eighth of an ounce of pot that cost medical marijuana users just $25 the day before—and taxes add on an extra 20% or so. Even so, sales have been brisk.
The two operational pot shops in Pueblo collectively sold $87,000 of marijuana on January 1, per the Pueblo Chieftain, and store owners say that if demand persists anywhere near the current high, they’ll be sold out in the very near future.
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“But then they would drain out of somewhere else that they already infest. Net effect is a wash.”
But they will be voting in Colorado...
Just because it is bad is no reason to make it illegal. I live in San Francisco. We have plenty of drugs. But the most pathetic characters on the streets, and believe me we have a world class zoo of disfunctional people here, are actually the hopeless alcoholics. For them plain rotgut is filthier than pot could ever be. And yet ? Can anyone make a reasonable case to ban alcohol ?
And we can go on from there.
The cost in civil liberties and excess government is far greater than the downside of pot could ever be.
Exactly !
A few less crimes, a little more liberty.
But they won’t be voting in Iowa (for example).
Pot is not a “gateway drug”. Cigarettes and alcohol are gateway drugs. I’ve met crack users who said they wish it was easier to get pot than crack. They would prefer the pot.
Our ultimate problem is a God-vacuum.
Banning the junk that people use to try to fill it is a poor, poor second-line, band-aid response.
If we spent on dedicated evangelists what we spent on drug police, our drug problem would (scientific wild arse guess) dwindle dramatically in but a couple of years.
The central question is whether those stores which now sell legal weed will be testing their own employees.
Large enterprises often do have drug testing in CA, dangerous jobs or not. I’m in one of them.
How else to find out if they are smoking the inventory? :-|
Yes, while we mostly jibber jabber about state nullification when it comes to gun control or Obamacare, the potheads just went and got the votes and got the job done. Even if we don’t agree with their agenda, we shouldn’t be too proud to take a few pointers from their successes.
When we had few rules against these things the birthrate was high!
Selling God is going to be needed before we can sell much of what God would want.
Right. You’re not supposed to get high on your own supply. Not many companies have the luxury of being able to test for theft this easily. Besides, I’d expect these stores to maintain certain standards, anyway.
Isolated Barrow Alaska made alcohol illegal and saw a 70% reduction in crime (domestic trouble, fights, etc.). Then a wine drinker sued for the right to order wine on line, and won the case. Don’t know what happened then.
Since it is 21% Hispanic and 4% Black, your prediction will come true.
Even in a Hard Left city like Seattle, where I live, whites vote about 45% Republican.
It is the non-white vote that almost always creates the margin for landslide Democrat victories.
Hey we can not have a LOW CLASS pot joint can we :-|
Really. I don’t consider pot that big a deal, and the demand for it is due in part (not all) to godlessness. And unless we are going to ban softcore porn and all manner of other things that lend themselves to wickedness, I say why bother attacking the problem from that end.
Evangelists will do more for us there than drug police will. IMHO. And by evangelists I mean mold-breaking, military, devil-defeating mission-bent evangelists, not our tame simulacra of evangelists that are in most American churches today.
I think the high prices are just gouging because they know their inventory won’t cover the unexpected demand. Let’s see what the prices look like in a year or two once the economics of it all starts to stabilize.
Tobacco is one of the GOOD drugs. The other is caffeine.
It helps productivity and concentration, improves mood, and relieves fatigue. The cost is statistically shortened life, but in vast majority of cases death happens at a relatively advanced age after the productive years are done. Also, by shorteningbold age it saves lifetime medical expenses and burden on pensions. You may consider that above as my modest proposal.
I have a vision for redneckdom. Rednecks come in many colors. Yellow, red, tan, white, and black.
Seriously. With proper marketing it could be the next cool thing. Ghetto is getting OLD.
Having worked with/on thousands of drug offenders for over 20 years, alcohol was the ‘gateway’ drug for over 80% of them. If nothing else was available, alcohol is ALWAYS there. Its legal. In terms of health issues, alcohol is ‘filthy stuff” compared to weed. Most of the health issues I treated were the result of alcohol + drug abuse. Now as a health care provider there are many things that humans inhale, ingest, inject, insert, so on and so forth that I find ‘filthy’ and ‘dumb’. In a supposed free society people should be free to do with their bodies as they see fit irregardless of my ‘professional’ opinion as to what’s ‘dumb’ or ‘filthy’ as long as they accept ALL the consequences of their actions. Problem is society is being forced to pay for the consequences via increased crime to pay for the habits, increasing court/prison costs, increasing health care costs, exploding police costs including their pensions. Drug abuse is as old as mankind. It will always be with us irregardless of ‘laws’. I guess the question becomes who do we, as a society, want controlling it’s use, the light of the public or the darkness of the ‘underworld’. To the ‘underworld’ more laws mean more risk but greater profits.
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