“What should we do? Wait 10 or 20 years from the inevitable backlash due to drug addiction, pain and the destruction of families.”
CA has had “medical” marijuana since 1997. That’s time enough for murders to have risen, highways to become deadlier, and ODs to be skyrocketing.
None of that has happened. The murder rate from 1996-2016 went from 9.1/100K to 4.9/100K. It is still below the national average average of 5.3/100K.
CA’s highways are safer than most other states. Eyeballing the table at the link below, CA is tied for 14th safest.
CA also has the 7th lowest rate of OD deaths among the states, and had practically no increase between 2010 and 2016. (Link to CDC table below)
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http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/cacrime.htm
http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalityfacts/state-by-state-overview
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3665634/posts?page=80#80
Ummm...really?? You're holding up CALIFORNIA as some kind of paradise and trying to make the link that it's because of "medical" (in quotes because there's no such thing) marijuana?
CALIFORNIA. The place where leftist mental illness is has taken root, flourished and grown?
CALIFORNIA. The place where homosexuality, child molestation and HOLLYWOOD are rampant?
CALIFORNIA. The place that never met a commie they didn't like??
lol...ok! Good argument!