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 ...
Are you still on your anti-marijuana crusade? You are the ‘Dudley Douchebag Drug Warrior’ of the Nanny State and the Prison Planet. It is a damn plant that at its worst makes you lazy and stupid, not violent. For ever marijuana user put in jail there is a murderer, rapist, or violent felon running free. Do you think that the US can afford to lock everyone up? Sod off.
Bttt
Do you see nut on other thread proposing executing drug addicts?
Does that include drunks too?
He hates Pat Buchanan too and south bashes
A jbtbl troll
Indeed
Charlie Manson liked smoking pot.
Part of the problem is that the country has a short memory. Drugs of all sorts used to be legal in the U.S. The problems were so bad that these “recreational” drugs were made illegal. Marijuana is often compared to alcohol. One major effect that occurs with both is to decrease your inhibitions. A major difference is that when the alcohol is gone, so is this effect. When the THC is gone, some of that effect remains and it is cumulative. It especially affects the young, below 26 years old. This is because the prefrontal cortex is still in development. This is the part of the brain that helps you keep from doing stupid or illegal things.
You like talking about people without pinging them. I’m sure this sort of M.O. got you plenty of well-deserved smackdowns when you were in prison.
I just look at long term marijuana users and I have all the evidence I need to form conclusions about them and about marijuana.
[As a LEO, I have never been called to a bar fight where everyone was smoking pot. Now there might be an issue at the 7-11 snack aisle, though.]
I’m a Parole officer. My experience is the opposite, but I deal almost exclusively with pot/meth/coc/opi users. 90% of my caseload is example after example of all of the fun things that recreational drug use offers you.
Drugs and crime go hand in hand. It’s not some mystery.
And Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian...
Regards,
“migration of liberals to CO”
You may be on to something here. Often we say x causes y when it turns out that x is related to a lot of other stuff that may have contributed to y.
We will find out soon enough—presumably a few more states will legalize it—and if it really is liberals that are the problem that factor should be reduced.
Okay, so legalizing it in Colorado wasn't enough, those poor pot-smoking druggies can't stop committing crimes until pot is legalized at the federal level. On the other hand, maybe (just mayne) it's not laws that force druggies into a life of crime, but perhaps something else. Like brain damage, or addiction? Or impaired moral reasoning?
So does Rush Limbaugh, Bill Gates, Clarence Thomas....
Are you willing to put nearly half of Americans in prison?
From Gallup August 2016:
• 13% report being current marijuana users, up from 7% in 2013
• 43% of U.S. adults say they have tried it
• Use and experimentation differ by religiosity, age
Source: http://www.gallup.com/poll/194195/adults-say-smoke-marijuana.aspx
What’s the difference in price before/after legalization?
I thought one of the premises of legalization was that it’d bring the price down and thereby decrease the tendency towards crime.
But if the gov regulated and taxed it to the point of making it cost the same or more than the prior street price, I would imagine the concentration of addicts into the region would increase crime.
I know a few pot-heads, and they mostly just sit around and get high.
The notion that they are going to get motivated enough to commit violent crimes is very hard to believe.
Meth addicts?—yeah, dangerous as can be.
LSD?—Might jump out of windows and land on someone.
But Marijuana—not buying it.
I think ECO is the type that carries around a bible all the while he has a gimp locked up in a sex dungeon at home. Something dark going on there.
Why isn’t medical weed sold in pharmacies like other medical drugs?. In Co where we have a summer cabin I spoke to a marijuana seller and asked about his training and he said he has a fold out brochure he uses.
Most of the price is tax and that’s why it’s gone underground. We have a peaceful spot on top of a mountain in southern Colorado with 3 houses on the street. A guy bought a house a couple years ago and started running the stuff out of his house. Now traffic is a problem. My neighbors dog just got run over and she may have to be euthanized. Mexicans are the biggest customers. Cops don’t care, they know about it and turn their heads because someone’s relative is involved somehow. It’s a mess.
I suppose that's just as good as a 6 year Pharm.D diploma.
“Indeed it’s truly a mystery why widely distributing addictive drugs which rot people’s brains would have negative social consequences.”
It is indeed a mystery that millions increase their risk of dementia every day taking prescribed xanex, ativan, klonopin & valium. Thousands die from opioid addiction or spend years the prison system costing society billions over the years. Add to that the millions of people on anti-depressants for decades that never really get any better.
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