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Let's replace "smoking pot" with "drinking alcohol"......there has always been a lot of homelessness due to alcoholism, yet no one wants to ban alcohol.
Not entirely true. The Baptists, who are the primary force behind marijuana prohibition, also favor stricter alcohol laws. States like Oklahoma are prime examples of that.
Republicans say they are all about small government, but they have to control what people do in their private lives and they have to prevent them from having vices, even if those vices aren't hurting anybody. And it's all because, you know, Jesus.
Yes, it is pure coincidence that out of 50 states homelessness has to increase by 13% in Colorado while the rest of the country's homeless population is decreasing.
Link? Source? Homelessness soared in America long before the pot legalization movement started. This whole idea that people are leaving jobs and homes to sit on the sidewalk in Denver to smoke weed is just ridiculous, LOL.
Link? Source? Homelessness soared in America long before the pot legalization movement started. This whole idea that people are leaving jobs and homes to sit on the sidewalk in Denver to smoke weed is just ridiculous, LOL.
No, I do not think that it is ridiculous.
Addiction can make a person do alot of things. Feeding the addiction comes before family even.
Yes, there was homelessness before Corado had legalized it.
These accounts by people who live there have seen these changes since dope is legal there.
Not just homeless, but trash on the street, peeing on the street. Business' are loosing customers.
No, I do not think that it is ridiculous.
Addiction can make a person do alot of things. Feeding the addiction comes before family even.
You can get weed anywhere though. So I don't think that the average pothead is going to move to Colorado and be homeless for weed. Weed may be legal but you can be arrested for things associated with being homeless like loitering, public urinating, etc so I don't see the point.
Link? Source? Homelessness soared in America long before the pot legalization movement started. This whole idea that people are leaving jobs and homes to sit on the sidewalk in Denver to smoke weed is just ridiculous, LOL.
And expect it to get worse as all the safety nets are cut. There will be many homeless men, women and children.
Some farmers have expressed alarm over the potential of marijuana growing operations in close proximity to established crops. Plans for a medical marijuana facility in Palisade, a tiny farming town whose main crop is peaches, have peach growers worried about the potential spread of pests, molds and fungi from cannabis to their established orchards. The agricultural implications of the cannabis industry, it seems, were not a consideration at the time it became a legal crop.
The wave of enthusiasm following the passage of Amendment 64 has given way to a drip, drip, drip of unintended consequences. Law-enforcement issues, such as marijuana-intoxicated driving and the illegal movement of vast amounts of cannabis product into other states, are the tip of the iceberg.
Social and law-enforcement issues resulting from the Colorado interstate pot pipeline prompted Nebraska and Oklahoma to file lawsuits against the state, citing the fact that marijuana commerce violates federal law and increases the burdens of law enforcement in other states.
Other symptoms of Colorado’s pot culture include increased use among teens, resulting in educational problems in middle schools and high schools, a spike in “edibles”-related emergency room visits, consumption by children and pets resulting in illness and death and regulatory confusion surrounding public consumption and enforcement.
Colorado’s addiction to cannabis revenue may prove to be the most harmful implication of all. Towns such as De Beque, where cannabis is replacing coal and cattle as a means of income, imperil themselves by staking the future on a substance that is still illegal in most states and that half of Americans still regard as a social evil.
In 2014 and 2015, nearly $6 million in pot revenues have been distributed to local governments. But the cost of increased law enforcement, drugged-driving incidents, fatal crashes, loss of productivity and a huge spike in gang-related crime bring into question the cost-benefit of those dollars.
Teen drug-related school expulsions are also on the rise. And the notion that prisons filled with minor drug offenders would be relieved of overcrowding—a selling point of legalizing marijuana—has been blown to smithereens.
Denver’s homeless population has exploded since Amendment 64 went into effect. And there are indications that finite tourist dollars are going more to pot and less to Colorado’s iconic natural wonders.
Cannabis is an intoxicant, proven to be dangerous to adolescents who use regularly, as well as to adults who are addicted to its calming, high-producing chemical, THC. But building a tax empire on a narcotic substance may be a dangerous proposition for the Centennial State.
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