Posted on 10/21/2016 11:49:18 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
According to the latest reports coming out of Colorado, marijuana is a major cause of homicides in the state, and the problem is only getting worse.
"There is increased crime, sometimes violent crime, associated with legalization of marijuana," Brauchler said. "That's not what you'd expect. You'd expect the harder-core drugs." ... "If cash is the only way to acquire marijuana, crime follows cash," Brauchler said ... Brauchler believes the legalization of marijuana is partly to blame for the rise in crime. "It is easier for there to be black market in a legalized system than there was before," he said.
This all wasn't supposed to happen. The pot legalization advocates told us that legalized marijuana would reduce crime and effectively eliminate the black market. Now we have experienced and respected prosecutors saying they are seeing, firsthand, the exact opposite.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
When I checked I found it was in a medical marijuana grow zone.
I took the place off my list.
Might as well hang out a "please rob us" sign.
If I was a pot smoker I would just grow my own. My neighbor does.
alcohol...cigs...gambling...now pot....
With this great insight we can aim the law at gambling, drinking and prostitution.
I think I might like to see the stats on that. Living in the midst of all this crime and murder, I haven’t seen any change at all. If there was, it would be all over the papers.
no matter what the idiots who voted for this deserve to be robbed of their stuff....
It’s just another remake of “Reefer Madness”.
Being potheads, they possibly thought that "legalized" weed implied free weed.
Nothing has changed.
The rot is only in the Denver/Boulder are. Nuke ‘em.
That was a good film. Everyone in Colorado should watch it a couple dozen times.
We did. Then we voted to legalize it. lol
There are two schools of thought. One says people will obey the government regardless of what they say. They other says people will tell the government to fvck off and do what they want.
I think the second is much more common, and the more government infringes, the more people tell them to fvck off.
Long term potheads that I have had the misfortune of running into were all hopelessly addicted and even electro-shock therapy with cattle-prods wouldn’t keep them away from weed. So yes, pot is addictive and in fact anyone who says it’s not is, well, like the potheads above, who deny being addicted.
And that makes them want to murder people?
Or:
And so you know what's better for them than they, themselves? So the State should step in and regulate their behavior "for their own good."
Just making a simple observation is fine... but what course of action are you insinuating?
Regards,
Living in pot-legal Oregon I have seen this in my little town.
The real problem is the rules about selling marijuana. Because it is illegal at the federal level, banks will not give accounts to mj stores, and all transactions must be in cash. The money quote from the article is "crime follows cash", which is absolutely true.
Think about this. If the stores could take checks and Visa cards, there would be a lot less cash to attract criminals. They could pay the rent with a check instead of a stack of Benjamins, and would not have to worry about being held up on the way.
If we took some other item, auto parts, for example, and made it illegal to sell auto parts for anything other than cash, there would be lots of stories about how auto parts stores lead to increased crime and how we have to eradicate this scourge from our society.
The problem is not what is being sold, but that it is only sold for cash money.
I look at the legal pot industry and have to laugh.
Right now it looks like there is lots of money to be made, but in a few years prices will come down to a little bit over the cost of production, and there will be a huge shakeout.
So a business with cash is a target for robbers. Who would have guessed?
"It is easier for there to be black market in a legalized system than there was before.
So it must be easier to have a black market in alcohol since it's been relegalized.
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This idiot is a 'respected prosecutor'?
Are you referring to alcohol?
Regards,
Yeah, but auto parts don't cause brain damage or turn people into paranoid lunatics. Or maybe they do.
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