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Colorado: Pot leaves users and dealers high and dry
« on: June 12, 2024, 05:59:23 pm »
EDITORIAL: Pot leaves users and dealers high and dry
    The Gazette editorial board
Jun 12, 2024
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Other states look to Colorado as the pot pioneer. If properly informed, they will run from proposals to replicate this mess. They will discard the misrepresentations of politicians who claim victory for going where no state had gone before. ...

“Colorado set the standard for legalizing cannabis. The results have been overwhelmingly positive, and now Congress must follow suit by removing cannabis from Schedule I classification,” says Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., on his Senate website. ...

An article in Politico published Sunday begs to differ. “Colorado’s weed market is coming down hard and making other states nervous,” says the headline.

They should be nervous, for insidious reasons far worse than failed business plans. They include:

• A crime-rate surge from 2012 to 2022, up 21.6%, as eight neighboring states saw crime rates plateau or decrease.

• Traffic fatalities increased 57% over the past decade.

• A decadelong increase in marijuana-related hospitalizations, emergency room visits, poison control calls and fatal crashes involving drivers impaired by THC, based on data from the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice.

• Suicides increased by 23% since legalization.

• Suicides among Colorado adolescents ages 15-19 have nearly doubled since legalization. ...
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Re: Colorado: Pot leaves users and dealers high and dry
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2024, 07:33:02 pm »
Careful.

They will double down again and make pot use mandatory.

When Marijuana was legalized in Denver, a colleague moved out. He said that police stopped responding to calls over property crime (theft, burglary).

No response means no report, which means the crime, for statistical purposes, never happened.

Crime stats went down that year...because reports were not being written up.

When the gorilla takes up the whole room, you can't ignore it any more.

Oh, and I recall reading estimates that half of the 'action' in the state was done 'unofficially' (which means the state didn't  collect any of the lauded tax revenue off of it).
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Re: Colorado: Pot leaves users and dealers high and dry
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2024, 08:13:09 pm »
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• Suicides among Colorado adolescents ages 15-19 have nearly doubled since legalization. ...
and that is what discredits the whole thing. You have to be 21 to even legally get Marijuana in Colorado,  and there were obviously a lot of factors totally unrelated to that in those intervening years.
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Re: Colorado: Pot leaves users and dealers high and dry
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2024, 08:58:49 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on June 13, 2024, 08:13:09 pm
and that is what discredits the whole thing. You have to be 21 to even legally get Marijuana in Colorado

How old do you have to be to illegally buy marijuana in Colorado?
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Re: Colorado: Pot leaves users and dealers high and dry
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2024, 09:38:04 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on June 13, 2024, 08:58:49 pm
How old do you have to be to illegally buy marijuana in Colorado?

About the same age you have to be to illegally buy beer or cigarettes. What do I win?
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Re: Colorado: Pot leaves users and dealers high and dry
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2024, 12:10:48 am »
Quote from: Bigun on June 13, 2024, 09:38:04 pm
About the same age you have to be to illegally buy beer or cigarettes. What do I win?

The internet.
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