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.
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.
Sister in law (a non-cannabis user) lives in Boulder, Co. She’s lived in Colorado for 25+ years. A couple of months back she was in to visit & I asked her what if any differences she could see since cannabis was legalized. She assured us she has seen zero change in the community since cannabis was legalized. She has kids in public school & in college. If this kind of stuff was really happening to the degree the article claims, she’d see it.
Vote Trump 2016
Colorado becoming a failed narco state?
Once you let the genie out does he ever go back in the bottle?
Coming soon to all 50 stateds of the soros nation .
But they said legalization would take away the profit motive and chase away the criminal element.
“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.”
IN many ways it does. The federal demand that MJ sales must be cash, no credit cards, no checking accounts allowed for merchants, etc., has led to the crime wave, not the MJ sales.
“It is easier for there to be black market in a legalized system than there was before,”
Through the grapevine, I have heard a great number of Colorado potheads continue to buy from their regular dealer than the stores simply because it’s cheaper and better. The idea was to provide a product that would be superior in quality, safer, and at a competitive price, but government gets greedy and can’t understand why people try to thwart it.
Lol! Way to go, potheaded colorado!
And who could not see this coming.
We are passing through Colorado soon and I have been concerned about it. The thought of a pot laced population on the highways does not inspire thoughts of safety or comfort. Some associates who were partakers in the 70s have tried to convince me other wise but we called them stoners for a good reason. A mind under the influence of a drug, any drug including alcohol is not normal.
Of course there are no alcohol related murders cause alcohol is legal everywhere
I’m not sure this is accurate. I’d like to believe these prosecutors but I don’t think much crime is committed to get $ for pot, any more than it might be committed to get electronics. We can’t ban Xboxes because people want to steal them. Marijuana doesn’t make you sick from not getting it. You don’t HAVE to keep smoking it. Not the same with caffeine, cocaine, opiates.
Also, talking about criminals testing + for pot is maningless if the tests show positive if you’ve smoked in the last three weeks (they do). They even show + if you take CBD oil for pain or nausea and never once get high.
I’m not buying this.
It’s a cash basis because the feds won’t allow access to banking system to cannabis growers / merchants.
BTW, ‘marijuana’ IS racist because it was used by the Hearst papers to tie cannabis with lazy Mexicans in its ‘Reefer Madness’ campaign. Necessary to protect investment in forests by Hearst because hemp makes better paper for less cost, and a hemp harvesting machine had just been patented.
Hey Joe, where you go’n with that gun in your hand?