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Here is the kicker, you can't buy 50-100 lbs of pot at a time.
Backdoor sales? LOL.
The math doesn't even work on this made up tale. 100lbs = 1600 ounces, good indoor growers can produce maybe 5 ounces per plant of top shelf product. So a legal grow facility is going to need to produce about 320 plants to serve one of these supposed black market bandits with product worth about 500k. Having seen the financial records of several dispensaries and grow facilities, it is laughable to even suggest that much product and cash can just disappear and leave no trace. It is like saying that 30-50% of the beer made by Coors is being sold tax free out the back door.
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Originally Posted by BongoBungo
Look at all that tax revenue. That number isn't even taking into account the hundreds of millions in dollars saved in the criminal justice system by not having to arrest, charge, try, and imprison marijuana users.
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Originally Posted by zzzSnorlax
Don't bring numbers into it, this thread is about unverifiable second hand personal anecdotes only.
Exactly. But the OP would do their very best to convince people that Denver is on the brink of anarchy. LMAO!
You have the right to do anything that doesn't infringe on the rights of others. Possessing or smoking a plant doesn't infringe on anyone's rights. Making it illegal does.
The way some people act nd the decisions tbey make while under the influence of pot does infringe on other people's rights.
Tell me something, Atalanta. Everywhere that medical marijuana has been legalized, the Medicare Part D prescription costs drop significantly in that area. How are you going to twist that into a bad thing?
Oh goodie! Another snowflake, fake news conservative thread I can tear apart with facts!
Unlike the OP Atalanta, I actually live in Colorado. Been here since 2011. I work downtown Denver, I see every day what pot has done to the Denver metro area.
Legal marijuana, while it had some help from the housing market boom, has a lot to do with Denver doing so well.
Currently, Denver metro has the lowest unemployment rate in the United States. 2.7%. That is unreal! Anyb of my fellow Denver C-D posters can attest to this, but the skyline of downtown is littered with cranes. Condos, townhomes, and new developments are going up in the city and all of the surrounding suburbs. The Denver housing market is the 2nd hottest in the country outside of San Fran.
Why is Denver doing so well? Well, legal pot has a lot to do with it.
- Nearly $300,000,000 tax revenue generated from pot sales
- Of that, $38,000,000 was given directly to Colorado Public Schools
- 17,000 full-time jobs have been created in Colorado by the legal marijuana industry
- Denver tourism is at an all-time high, bringing in tens of millions of dollars to the local economy. This is thanks to what they're calling "pot tourism," with people all over the country coming here to smoke Denver's finest legal herbs.
Many conservatives prayed (literally) that legalizing pot would bite Colorado in the ass. They hoped that it would turn Colorado into a crime-infested craphole and that downtown Denver would be overrun by thugs and drugged out zombies. They wanted to be able to point at liberals and say "see?! look what you've done! Colorado is falling apart!"
Unfortunately for conservatives, that didn't happen. At all.
The economy here in Denver is on fire. Colorado is bursting at the seams with new money.
There has been zero negative impact on Colorado since legalizing pot.
Oh goodie! Another snowflake, fake news conservative thread I can tear apart with facts!
Unlike the OP Atalanta, I actually live in Colorado. Been here since 2011. I work downtown Denver, I see every day what pot has done to the Denver metro area.
Legal marijuana, while it had some help from the housing market boom, has a lot to do with Denver doing so well.
Currently, Denver metro has the lowest unemployment rate in the United States. 2.7%. That is unreal! Anyb of my fellow Denver C-D posters can attest to this, but the skyline of downtown is littered with cranes. Condos, townhomes, and new developments are going up in the city and all of the surrounding suburbs. The Denver housing market is the 2nd hottest in the country outside of San Fran.
Why is Denver doing so well? Well, legal pot has a lot to do with it.
- Nearly $300,000,000 tax revenue generated from pot sales
- Of that, $38,000,000 was given directly to Colorado Public Schools
- 17,000 full-time jobs have been created in Colorado by the legal marijuana industry
- Denver tourism is at an all-time high, bringing in tens of millions of dollars to the local economy. This is thanks to what they're calling "pot tourism," with people all over the country coming here to smoke Denver's finest legal herbs.
Many conservatives prayed (literally) that legalizing pot would bite Colorado in the ass. They hoped that it would turn Colorado into a crime-infested craphole and that downtown Denver would be overrun by thugs and drugged out zombies. They wanted to be able to point at liberals and say "see?! look what you've done! Colorado is falling apart!"
Unfortunately for conservatives, that didn't happen. At all.
The economy here in Denver is on fire. Colorado is bursting at the seams with new money.
There has been zero negative impact on Colorado since legalizing pot.
Eh? Where is your link to your numbers and worded facts ???
Colorado's legal MJ is fueling the black market as well.
That's because there wasn't a full statewide legalization. You've got "wet counties" and "dry counties." California is making the same mistake, giving the locals too much power to opt out. Legal in one city but illegal in another just fuels illegal over-the-fence selling. Same thing with tobacco. Same states put high taxes, others don't; it creates an incentive for the black market to take advantage. Even wine has a black market; California wines get shipped illegally to states with high priced state run stores.
The only way the black market will be eliminated is with full national legalization. That's true whether it's dope, cigarettes or alcohol.
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