"7 days a week, 20 hours a day, I can't take it anymore"!
Posted on 07/02/2014 11:27:52 AM PDT by Rebelbase
$19 million in new tax revenue.
Marijuana-related arrests, which make up 50% of all drug-related crimes, have plummeted in Colorado, freeing up law enforcement to focus on other criminal activity. By removing marijuana penalties, the state saved somewhere between $12 million and $40 million in 2012, according to the Colorado Center on Law and Policy.
According to government data, the Denver city- and county-wide murder rate has dropped 52.9% since recreational marijuana use was legalized in January. This is compared to the same period last year, a time frame encompassing Jan. 1 through April 30.
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Google “adult arrested alcohol minors graduation party”. Some people are stupid, do we make booze illegal because of that?
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Better yet, legalize crime. Problem solved. |
Nailed it. As so many pro-dopers whine and moan that the WOD is such a failure. Well guess what? The WOM (murder) is a failure too. As evidenced by higher murer rates. Wanna end the WOR (rape)? Legalize that too.
Problem solved.
The real story about what has happened is that the CO pot sellers are suing to be exempt from taxes on their product so their activities can’t be used in any criminal trial. Problem is; one of the requirements of the law and one of the reasons it was passed is the TAXING of pot sales. The law was sold to the midget-brain lawmakers on the basis of high taxes flowing into their state coffers.
Post of the thread!
"Never" is more than six months, true. Marijuana is less addictive than alcohol or tobacco - and there is no 'gateway effect,' just an underlying propensity to alter one's mental state and/or engage in forbidden behaviors.
By then it will be too late. However, there are deaths directly because of the dope and the increase in DUI from dope smoking dopes.
So should we re-ban alcohol, the "I" in the overwhelming majority of DUIs?
I predict more kids using it, more kids dropping out of school or otherwise throwing their lives away, I predict ultimately much more crime as people that grow the junk, sell the junk, etc will be robbed repeatedly, and that to buy the junk, more people will turn to theft to afford it....
not to mention the whole moral demiss of our culture of being stoned....
any financial "gain" will be washed away with an increase in crime, coming soon, increase in ER visits, and an increase in inpatient treatment centers....
and, I want every single "alcohol" related incident to also be investigated for weed use, since I believe a high percentage of the "alcohol" incidents are also weed incidences....
there can come no good by allowing and encouraging people to be stoned, more laid back, less involved in life....no good at all...
"7 days a week, 20 hours a day, I can't take it anymore"!
2 out of 3 murder cases get closed; how many drug "crimes" do you think even get detected: 2 out of 30,000 maybe?
people want to encourage more people to smoke this stuff?....its insanity....
and to think of the decades of the constant diatribe about cigarette smoking and how harmful it is even to non smokers, and weed is so much worse, and yet this is what the govt will do to get a few more upfront tax dollars?...and the sheeple just fall for it every single time...
Because alcohol by itself makes one more responsible and one's reflexes sharper?
It is definitely too soon to be celebrating.
Nope. Try again.
Some people don’t understood how prevalent marijuana is in our society.
In urban and suburban areas more often than not, a person’s neighbor or relatives has or is dabbling with it.
Rural areas, not so much. The stronger family values in those areas tends to mitigate societal taboos...well, except for the acceptable taboos of alcohol and sex.
If one has a habit involving pot or alcohol and not enough income they will be resorting to some sort of stealing.
Stealing to get money for pot or booze or stealing to get the things they can’t afford like medicine or clothes for their kids because they spent it all on the pot or booze.
That’s how the real world operates regardless of whether pot or booze is legal or not legal.
Bet they all drank water, too.
people want to encourage more people to smoke this stuff?....its insanity....
When we ended Prohibition did we thereby "encourage more people to" drink?
and to think of the decades of the constant diatribe about cigarette smoking and how harmful it is even to non smokers, and weed is so much worse
Provide evidence that "weed is so much worse."
OK, I left off white trash meth heads from my rural list.
“If one has a habit involving pot or alcohol and not enough income they will be resorting to some sort of stealing.”
There are more than enough honest drunks to refute your claim.
Imaginings are the foundation of the pro-drug-war position.
"The Colorado Department of Public Safety released data through the end of February indicating that not only has the doomsday scenario that law enforcement officials predicted not come true, but crime has fallen by significant margins.
"Compared to the same time period in 2013, overall property crime fell by 14.6 percent in Denver. Homicide rates, while not leaving the single digits in either year, fell by 66.7 percent while the number of robberies decreased by seven percent." - http://rt.com/usa/colorado-crime-change-legalization-study-017/
The cops can now do what they do best:
Raise Revenue for the Welfare State from innocent civilians attempting to legally go about their day.
I guess the infamous “sin tax” is now considered cool.
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