Posted on 10/21/2016 8:59:49 PM PDT by LouAvul
BENTON, Ark. (KATV) - Medical marijuana is now legal in 25 states and Arkansas could potentially be added to the list.
Two major law enforcement officials from Colorado are urging from their experience that voters say no to legalization in Arkansas.
Former president and current vice president of the Colorado Drug Investigators Association spoke exclusively to Channel 7 on Friday about how marijuana has changed their state and how it could affect ours.
"It's not a good thing for a community to do something like this," Jerry Peters, former president of the the Colorado Drug Investigators Association, said.
Peters said legalizing medical marijuana will only lead to legalization for recreational use like it did in Colorado and other states.
"This has brought an impact to the state of Colorado that's going to be hard to reverse," Peters said.
"I don't see anything that's been positive about legalizing marijuana, whether it's for recreational or for medicinal purposes," Jim Gerhardt, vice president of the Colorado Drug Investigators Association, said.
Gerhardt said it has become an unpredictable industry that has led to major problems in public safety and public health.
He also said they've seen an increase in homelessness, underage use, crime and death. There's also been a 62 percent increase in car fatalities involving marijuana.
"It has not been properly studied by the FDA to be able to say it's safe and effective," Gerhardt said.
Gerhardt said they've also seen more home invasions because of home growing, which is something that one initiative, ballot issue 7, in Arkansas would allow.
"A week ago we had a 14-year-old shot and killed when he jumped into the backyard of a man's house trying to take marijuana out of the backyard," Gerhardt said.
Both Gerhardt and Peters blame the potency of marijuana today. They said in the sixties and seventies marijuana had 3-5 percent THC and now it has 15-30 percent THC.
Plus, marijuana edibles and concentrates can have up to 95 percent THC.
Nah, you got no idea. Nice guess, though.
Druggies are not famous for thinking straight about accounting and home economics and stuff.
That, and lapsing into raving paranoia about scary trees and spiders in drain-pipes.
Well, I suppose not. Sorry about their luck. A shame.
I reside in California. I have not smoked pot in over 35 years and have not had a drink of alcohol in nearly 23 years.
We have semi-legalized pot. It is a misdemeanor ticket.
That said, I find minimal harm in it. Does pot do long term brain damage? Probably. We know alcohol can, in excess. Tylenol can kill you.
I can’t get excited about continuing the “war on drugs” if it means putting pot smokers in prison.
You’re wasting your breath
Drug warriors are like peta people
Fanatical
Druggies are just stupid. They vote Dem too.
Not where I live
90% of my peer group smokes pot from rarely to daily
All bar none are right leaning and will vote Trump
But that said and I know the pot biz in Colorado better then most if not all here ....my advice is to stick with medical cards to smoke and don’t go full rec
In Colorado it’s a lure that brought in transients much like free booze or methadone in Miami would bring in bums and hobo heads
Denver def has a pot bum problem..no question
Medical is to me...a reasonable enough obstacle to deter the transient lure but be available for those who want it for med or just the buzz
Like Michigan is....seems to work there
I know I’m wasting my breath being logical so when you flame back personal I’ll let you own last word
I’m sure someone loves you Clive
Druggies for Trump. Brilliant campaign concept.
Gee Wardaddy, if I may be so very bold, where in Colorado do you live? Or how do you have such knowledge of Co. Me, I listen to Peter Boyles on AM 710 in Co. And I live in Denver. Anyhow, As a courier in Co. I visit the front range towns quite a lot. Just a simple question?...why do so many people line up for Voodoo Donuts every Saturday morning? They can’t be pot heads. It is too early in the day.? If they were smoking at 7:00 am they would be asleep by 8:00am
‘Support for Legal Marijuana Use Up to 60% in U.S.’
http://www.gallup.com/poll/196550/support-legal-marijuana.aspx
Lock your window then.
I don't think druggies should be telling employed people what to do. They are already skating on thin ice.
I live in Nashville area
I own car washes...seven....big ones on good property
I don’t smoke weed now but would if Wifey started back
We’re a real busy family
My main wash equip supplier is in Arvada.....
I’ have had pals in Santa Fe and Aspen and Denver and Telluride and
Monroe and Paonia and Gunnison forever and know many serious weed growers there who do indoor and winterized greenhouse and light dep etc and I’ve toured Cargills huge turnkey greenhouse lease operation in Pueblo....40 acres under glass to the point I have interest in it there but with caveats admittedly
Colorado is the gold rush
Both potus candidates are soft on weed....trump may even be softer than her
If they decriminalize federally it’ll snowball to medical like freedom everywhere is my guess
And the Klondike in Colorado will collapse
I’m seeing medical weed out there now for 400 a qp in the cheap places and 1600 a pound even though outdoor harvest is not yet in really...its trim school and cure time and some is still in ground
That’s really cheap for singles
I went in that big shop in Raton last July just to look and prices were a third of what they used to be
The biz end interests me but not in Colorado so much
The big permit tags in Michigan and ownership of dispensaries is where to be in 2018
I may make a run at one...even though I’m an avowed reb as everyone here knows ..I got kin there already papered up
Like in colorado the medical folks got first dibs on the rec permits
And contrary to what ignorant posters here say....of the two dozen or so pot business folks I know in Colorado almost all are Trump folk
But as I said earlier I prefer medical over rec to soften weed law
I loathe drunks...alcohol is a far worse scourge yet celebrated on thei forum by pot haters
Funny
My oldest boy likely will do th three year petroleum engineering degree program in Gunnison funded by Bob Mosbacher
We love anywhere near uncompagrhe or the San juans jeep trails and pearl pass to aspen
I bet it may still be open
I should hop in my FJ..I could be there by tomorrow nite...lol
Don’t lock your window then.
And I skate on asphalt. There’s no ice in Florida.
1. Marijuana does not induce those symptoms.
2. The 2nd Amendment allows for a suitable response in such cases.
3. Like the other poster said: Lock your window.
Regards,
You do realize that that statistic does not say anything about the absolute number of car fatalities involving marijuana, don't you?
Car fatalities involving alcohol might still be at ten - or a hundred - times that level, you know.
Regards,
I'd rather eliminate all the druggies and leave my window open. Thanks.
Again with the ad hominems!
You have no knowledge of my (or chris37's) employment record, or drug-use record.
Regards,
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