I was just talking to someone that lives in Colorado and she was telling me the “unforeseen” problems associated with legal pot. 1. The bike paths in Denver have become the new homeless habitat. People came for the legal drugs not realizing how expensive it was to live in Denver and wound up homeless. 2. The illegal pot sellers are renting houses in middle class neighborhoods, diverting the electricity and plumbing to establish an indoor pot farm totally destroying the house. 3. Other drug dealers will try to rob these pot houses because they usually have large amounts of cash at the house. Unfortunately they have sometimes broken into the wrong house guns blazing. 4. A significant number of children being rushed to emergency room because they have found their parents stash of pot laced cookies or brownies.
My sister in law lives in Boulder, Co. Last week she was in for a visit & we asked her if she noticed anything since weed was legalized. She assures us (she is the mother of 4 kids, nice lady) that her family has not seen ANY problems related to cannabis legalization. Not on the roads, in the parks or in the schools.
Decriminalize it federally & let the states decide.
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“I was just talking to someone that lives in Colorado and she was telling me the “unforeseen” problems associated with legal pot. 1. The bike paths in Denver have become the new homeless habitat. People came for the legal drugs not realizing how expensive it was to live in Denver and wound up homeless.”
That just reflects a failure of will. It used to be the police would run them out of town.
“2. The illegal pot sellers are renting houses in middle class neighborhoods, diverting the electricity and plumbing to establish an indoor pot farm totally destroying the house.”
That was never made legal. A person can grow a bit for personal use, but an unlicensed pot farm is still a major felony. Further, this has been going on since the sixties, was illegal then and is illegal now, so I don’t see how legalization was to blame.
“3. Other drug dealers will try to rob these pot houses because they usually have large amounts of cash at the house. Unfortunately they have sometimes broken into the wrong house guns blazing.”
And that wasn’t going on before legalization, and doesn’t happen as frequently where pot is prohibited? I have a sense that it was and does.
“4. A significant number of children being rushed to emergency room because they have found their parents stash of pot laced cookies or brownies.”
Haven’t been watching all that closely, but I only remember one case. Of course, that’s not something one ever wants to see, but no one has ever been physically harmed by an overdose of marijuana. This “rushed to the hospital” meme is very deceptive.
Numbers 2 and 3 seem to be caused not by legalization, but by the remaining government regulation, which keeps the black market profitable.
This happened to my landlady with one of her other properties. It was meth, but same damage. They had to completely rewire the house and do massive repairs.
I am very familiar with the pot industry in Colorado particularly at the top end
More so than anyone on this forum I’d wager
And I have not observed any of your allegations except one
I agree legal weed has increased Denvers transient population since it’s basically the nations pot tourism Mecca
Denver has also had an influx of less well off than usual hipsters
The low rent ones basically
But on the other hand it’s a demographic issue
I’ve sat in pot shops in Aspen all day and the customer base was rich Aspen
Whereas go to Edgewater in Denver which is open quite late more than others and it’s a scrubbier crowd
Compare a liquor store in Belle Meade where I used to live with so Bordeaux which is black and sketchier
I’m ambivalent on full rec weed
I think the medical card approach is preferable
For the record
But these states aren’t gonna quit on that revenue now