Results of Colorado Marijuana Legalization 4 Years Later

[goodwithagun]

On January 1, 2014, Colorado legalized the medical and recreational use of Marijuana. They claimed that it would add millions of dollars to the state’s revenue via state taxes which includes a 2.9% sales tax, 10% special sales tax and 15% excise tax, meaning the state would collect $27.90 for every $100 of recreational marijuana sold in the Rocky Mountain state.

In April 2014, 19 year old foreign exchange student Levy Thamba plunged off a hotel balcony and died after eating legally purchased marijuana laced cookies. After eating just one cookie, Thamba became agitated and ran out onto the balcony and over the edge, falling to his death. The pot-laced cookies were legally purchased by a 21-year-old present at the gathering.

In September 2015, 47-year-old Richard Kirk purchased Pre 98 Bubba Kush Pre-Roll joint and Karma Kandy Orange Ginger, a marijuana laced candy. Shortly after eating the pot laced candy, Kristine Kirk, 44, called 9-1-1 to report that her husband was hallucinating and frightening her and their three children. During her call, she told the police dispatcher that her husband had asked her to get the gun from their safe and shoot him. When she refused, she told the dispatcher that he was retrieving the gun. Twelve minutes into the emergency call, the dispatcher heard a gunshot over the phone and then the line went dead.

Read more here https://barbwire.com/results-of-colorado-marijuana-legalization-4-years-later/

[Dexter]

Have you ever used marijuana before?

[goodwithagun]

Have you ever used marijuana before?

Are you my mom?

[mountaineer]

Mr. Non Sequitur.

[Dexter]

Are you my mom?

No, but if you haven't used marijuana before it's hard to understand how in pretty much every way imaginable it is safer than something like alcohol (the REAL gateway drug.)

[goodwithagun]

No, but if you haven't used marijuana before it's hard to understand how in pretty much every way imaginable it is safer than something like alcohol (the REAL gateway drug.)

Did you read the full article?

[jmyrlefuller]

I have this suspicion that the author is cherry-picking the worst examples he can find.

Colorado is not going to be the typical case study for marijuana legalization. Because it was one of the first and got the most publicity for it, it earned a reputation as a "pot state," meaning that when people think of legal pot, they think of Colorado and go there first. Any time you have an influx of people anywhere, for any reason, you're going to have increased home prices and crowding issues. Usually that's portrayed as a good thing for economic growth in the long run, since more people is usually a sign of good economic health.

Most of the problems Colorado has in regard to marijuana are because it draws every pothead that wants to go to a pot-legal state. Most other states that are going to legalize it aren't going to have that kind of an influx. It's just like casinos: people still go to Vegas for the glut of casinos, and when they started opening them in other parts of the country it didn't bring the kind of development that it did to Las Vegas (though that's largely because in many cases they only allow one casino for miles around to protect the owners' profits, and that's totally the opposite of the Vegas model).

[DB]

Have you ever used marijuana before?

I've done both marijuana and alcohol. Your point?

I've seen both destroy peoples lives.

Are you trying to make the argument that if you haven't done it you don't know what your talking about?

Where does that argument end? You don't know what its like to shoot yourself in the head until you try it?

[Gefn]

Ask Randy Marsh

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[txradioguy]

Did you read the full article?

@goodwithagun you're asking way too much of him.

[txradioguy]

I've done both marijuana and alcohol. Your point?

I've seen both destroy peoples lives.

Are you trying to make the argument that if you haven't done it you don't know what your talking about?

Where does that argument end? You don't know what its like to shoot yourself in the head until you try it?

QFT

[mirraflake]

Have you ever used marijuana before?

Every and I mean every regular pot smoke I have ever known is not worth a damn.  Yes, I have smoked pot on occasion.

@Dexter

[Dexter]

Every and I mean every regular pot smoke I have ever known is not worth a damn.  Yes, I have smoked pot on occasion.

@Dexter

I smoke pot every day. I am stoned right now in fact, usually am when I post here. It's the best anxiety medication I've found.

[txradioguy]

I smoke pot every day. I am stoned right now in fact, usually am when I post here. It's the best anxiety medication I've found.

And that explains and confirms a lot of what we already suspected about you.

Thank you for being exhibit one of why pot is bad for your brain.

[Dexter]

I bet you've all met a lot of useless alcohol users too, and T.V watchers. Oh, and candy eaters.

[bigheadfred]

Every and I mean every regular pot smoke I have ever known is not worth a damn.  Yes, I have smoked pot on occasion.

@Dexter

I only smoked pot twice in my life. Once for 11 years, and once for 15.

I'm not surprised by the black market angle. Gotta be easier to cross a state line with a load of pot than the southern border.

I also wonder if, or how, the potency factors in.

[Dexter]

And that explains and confirms a lot of what we already suspected about you.

Thank you for being exhibit one of why pot is bad for your brain.

Do you think I'm stupid or that pot turns people left? Both?

[Dexter]

I'm not sure I could do my work without pot.

[bigheadfred]

I'm not sure I could do my work without pot.

I wouldn't try to do mine high. I like having fingers, hands, arms.

[goodwithagun]

I'm not sure I could do my work without pot.

I’m not being a smart ass right now, I’m being truly honest: If you can’t do your work without weed, is the work you do really worth you doing it?

I don’t know what you do and you do not have to share that. I mean what I typed in honesty and not in criticism.

[Dexter]

I’m not being a smart ass right now, I’m being truly honest: If you can’t do your work without weed, is the work you do really worth you doing it?

I don’t know what you do and you do not have to share that. I mean what I typed in honesty and not in criticism.

Y'all probably wouldn't believe me if I told you how I make my money, but yes, I think so. I think I'm helping to make the world a better place.

[thackney]

I smoke pot every day. I am stoned right now in fact, usually am when I post here. It's the best anxiety medication I've found.

That would help explain your inability to follow a logical thought process.  Also explains the ease in which you ignore that which you don't want to believe.  Facing reality often takes a clear mind.

[Dexter]

That would help explain your inability to follow a logical thought process.

Ironically enough that is exactly what pot helps me do.

Also explains the ease in which you ignore that which you don't want to believe.  Facing reality often takes a clear mind.

Pot clears my mind.

[truth_seeker]

No, but if you haven't used marijuana before it's hard to understand how in pretty much every way imaginable it is safer than something like alcohol (the REAL gateway drug.)

Some people become very paranoid, on strong weed. It is mind-altering.

It is very likely the "gateway" drug for countless heroin addicts, too. Plus meth, cocaine.

One in ten people that drink, wind up with alcohol trouble.

I'm sure the number is higher for drugs. Claiming weed is not addictive, is part of the mythology, advanced by proponents.

With pot, a fraction of users WILL wind up with drug trouble.
 

[Dexter]

Some people become very paranoid, on strong weed. It is mind-altering.

It is very likely the "gateway" drug for countless heroin addicts, too. Plus meth, cocaine.

One in ten people that drink, wind up with alcohol trouble.

I'm sure the number is higher for drugs. Claiming weed is not addictive, is part of the mythology, advanced by proponents.

With pot, a fraction of users WILL wind up with drug trouble.
 

Making weed illegal doesn't make anything about the situation better. It only makes things worse. We should have learned our lesson after prohibition.