Reporter's scary experience with legal Colorado pot (medical, work, television)
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Some people seem to be under the impression that the problems disappear if it is legalized.
No. Just problems like shootouts with smugglers, gang turf wars, prisons crowded with people on petty beefs for possession, riding up LE to kick in doors cuz someone's growing a few plants....you know. Little stuff.
The police tried to charge the homeowner with capital murder for fatally shooting the deputy who broke into his home. A grand jury rightly disagreed and dismissed the murder charge.
I saw a television show on people addicted to it and harder drugs moving to Colorado to work in the marijuana industry. All I can say is they are welcome to them. It shouldn't take long for it to look like Seattle with young potheads everywhere.
Some people seem to be under the impression that the problems disappear if it is legalized.
The idea of not criminalizing someone for consuming it, and wasting taxpayer's money on a failed war on a plant brought to us by special interests spewing a bunch of BS propaganda, because they feared loss of profits is good enough for me. Will there be problems? I suppose, because nothing is really 100% harmless. However; plenty of people smoke regularly with no serious issues. A lot of it depends on the individual, as well as the strain, and how it's consumed. At any rate, legalization, and NOT decriminalization will significantly reduce the black market around cannabis, because it will be legal to cultivate, and distribute obviously with provisions that I imagine would be similar to tobacco and alcohol. With only decriminalizing it and the fact that while it is only legal in certain states on the state level, and not on a federal level, you've still got the black market in play.
I saw a television show on people addicted to it and harder drugs moving to Colorado to work in the marijuana industry. All I can say is they are welcome to them. It shouldn't take long for it to look like Seattle with young potheads everywhere.
"Potheads" young and old have always been around. Of all of the illegal substances cannabis is already the most widely used, most popular, and to quite a degree socially acceptable despite its current status under federal law. While at social functions it is still out in the open, you'll always find a segment of the group that will sneak off to fire up a doobie. I suppose that being that it's illegal, even though others in the party who don't partake are cool with it is still why people don't do it out in the open. I guess when legalized that would probably change, because there would be no reason to hide it.
Some people seem to be under the impression that the problems disappear if it is legalized.
I think there's been enough experience with wide-spread dope smoking over the last 50 years that most people have a reasonably accurate picture of the problems associated with it. This includes various states' experiments with both formal and informal (we won't enforce) decriminalization. The public judgment increasingly seems to be that the problems associated with criminalization are less acceptable than those associated with legalization.
The reporter was an idiot. She says that she was not a regular marijuana smoker yet she decided to drink chardonnay on top of eating a marijuana infused candy bar. Then she was shocked at how intoxicated she became. Moron.
Did the candy wrapper inform her of any risks? No. The morons here, would be the legislators who rushed to gave the green light for a drug that could do this to a person.
No. Just problems like shootouts with smugglers, gang turf wars, prisons crowded with people on petty beefs for possession, riding up LE to kick in doors cuz someone's growing a few plants....you know. Little stuff.
Why didn't crime stop in places where it has already been decriminalized/legalized? Crime skyrocketed in Holland and Portugal, so the prisons are still full.
I saw a television show on people addicted to it and harder drugs moving to Colorado to work in the marijuana industry. All I can say is they are welcome to them. It shouldn't take long for it to look like Seattle with young potheads everywhere.
Good. I hope as many welfare potheads as possible move from my State to Colorado.
Very strange an adult as old as she is didn't have enough sense to ask questions before consuming the whole thing!
Nothing like a "first timer" judging the product by her own stupidity!
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Then she was shocked at how intoxicated she became. Moron.
