Posted on 10/27/2020 8:58:09 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
PUEBLO, Colo.—It’s a common story across America: A city loses its main employer, usually a manufacturing company with well-paying, blue-collar jobs (that often go to China). The city’s economy crumbles, and those who can move out, do.
Decades later, and looking peeling-paint tired, the city hasn’t managed to recover, but drugs have found a permanent home.
In Pueblo, Colorado, the manufacturer was a steel plant beleaguered by a market crash in the 1980s and worker strikes in the 1990s. And one drug was given a red-carpet welcome.
For years, Pueblo has been looking for industries to revive its economy, and when recreational marijuana was legalized for retail sale in Colorado in 2014, many saw it as the answer. More people would be employed and the tax money would go to schools and infrastructure.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
You never addressed my statement.
No I do not think cannabis should be regulated. I believe people should be allowed to grow it. To have on their person and to use if they are of legal age.
Yes I have, doubting Tom.
My story here is first hand.
Go pick a fight with a democrat, will ya?
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