In before the Paultards throw a little hissy fit.
I heard that Texas state troopers are lined up at the border of CO crossing into TX to write tickets and whatever. MaryJane is not legal in TX.
The only good coming out of Colorado and Washington’s legalization is the “living laboratory argument.”
People moan about the astonishing increase in autism and learning disabilities of all sorts in American children. Yet it is rarely mentioned that over the last fifty years the use of marijuana, cocaine, barbiturates, amphetamines and other toxins has increased dramatically by people of child bearing age. The real cost of legalized marijuana in Colorado is yet to be seen.
The nice thing is that Colorado and Washington get to be the guinea pigs.
* This is the way it is supposed to work, yall. The article was a bunch of scaremongering. Let us see what kind of benefits result from the Free Market getting to work on the wonderful marijuana pharmacopia. There are some VERY interesting compounds in this particular plant.
* I know I benefit from it. I am a beat-up old hillbilly with a fair amount of chronic pain due to a wild and reckless life. A little smoke now and then is just the thing.
NOTE TO SELF: When in Colorado selling AK and AR 30 round magazines out of the trunk of your car, DO NOT eat the local prepared foods. Bring your own in cans from out of state!
The article is intellectually disappointing, relating tragic anecdotes associated with marijuana use, and treating them as if they reflect a trend (and as if traffic deaths, suicides and violence never occur without marijuana).
The best study shows that traffic fatalities decline after states legalize marijuana.
Google:
Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption
I fail to understand that states that are banning tobacco smoking in any public place and even private businesses, spending millions to stop people from smoking tobacco and taxing tobacco heavily ostensibly so people do not smoke are now embracing pot smoking. We know that inhaling tobacco smoke has serious health effects and health nannies are telling us that second hand and even third hand smoke is deadly, but the the health care community seems to be absent from this pot smoking debate. I can’t believe that inhaling pot smoke is any less a health hazard than tobacco.
The government in NYC can regulate soda size but the government in Colo can’t regulate marijuana safely?