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Time for some new politicians... Unfortunately you can't put the genie back in the bottle.
Perhaps they will learn from California..and we will learn from them
Money taken in didn't even come close to real costs to society
" Every dollar due" with a green marijuana leaf... They got passed out to us.
Interesting week of training... Nice crew.. several forensic accountants.. several leos.. one ranger.. three building inspectors...one contractor... one forfeiture agent ...The focus is the money.. the permits.. and compliance.. we won't be pulling plants ..we WILL be taking money...
Homeless have been going to Colorado for years. And Pueblo has pretty much been Colorado's murder capital for years, pot or not. Pueblo has issues that go beyond marijuana.
NOTMEOFFICER Denver Post poll asking whether people would vote to legalize all over again showed "YES" By a resounding vote.. This followed another poll with the same result.
So my question to you - is A Did you really not know this when you posted or B Were you not honest enough to post it?
So a bunch of unemployed/under employed people show up, and that has to do with what? So people should be restricted in engaging in an activity because some others abuse it?
This is the same lame argument for gun control, that because a few people abuse the right to own arms, they think everyone should have a restriction on owning them; as if people should face a restriction because some other people are abusing the right/privileged.
Anti-mj arguments do not hold water given alcohol is legal and it creates all kinds of issues.
NOTMEOFFICER Denver Post poll asking whether people would vote to legalize all over again showed "YES" By a resounding vote.. This followed another poll with the same result.
So my question to you - is A Did you really not know this when you posted or B Were you not honest enough to post it?
Hi poster...
I think the comment in my rep points sums it up most eloquently
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oh no..Pueblo Colorado... "Who could have predicted that losers, creeps, and psychos, would pour into a place, once it legalized a drug that turns people into losers, creeps, and psychos? "
Sounds to me like some very frustrated citizens...
From your Colorado forum source
driving through the beautiful mountains of Colorado last week, it was easy to temporarily forget the insanity that has overtaken my hometown.
Since the commercialization of retail Marijuana in Pueblo County, the once family-oriented city has become a haven for gangs, the Cuban cartel and hoardes of homeless folks who panhandle on our street corners.
Many business owners are bereft of the fact that, while there are job opportunities in Pueblo, many applicants cannot pass a drug test.
The most troubling to me, as a retired health care professional, is the number of babies testing positive for Marijuana at birth. In March 2016, nearly half the babies who were tested at St. Mary Corwin tested positive.
According to the 2014 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey, Pueblo County has the highest youth use rates in the state. Approximately one in every three high school students has used Marijuana in the last 30 days.
Many will become addicted and will never reach their God-given potential.
We cannot continue on this road of destruction if we desire Pueblo to have a family-friendly, healthy, safe image. I love Pueblo, but I certainly am not proud of what it has become.
We need to reclaim our territory. Vote Yes on 200 and 300. Opt out of retail Marijuana on Nov. 8"
LOL, using Pueblo as an example of why pot is bad is just dumb to anybody who knows anything about Pueblo. Pueblo has had major drug issues for 30 years, and many of the issues going on now are not because of the legal grows and legal dispensaries. They are directly due to the the fact that there are a ton of illegal grows throughout the whole county, enough that they are busting 4 or 5 a week and have been for 2 months.
Pueblo county was the 1st in line to recruit and bring in as many grows as possible, because it was a very depressed area already. For 30 years the city had been on the decline, with little in the way of jobs and a declining population. Now it is growing quickly, real estate and rent prices are on the same tier of other smaller cities once again, there are a ton of jobs, and the county and city both are seeing tax revenue boosts. Of course they have a drug use problem, but it is not a new thing, I know for a fact that drugs were coming out of Pueblo for decades, and that it was a distribution point for many drugs coming out of Mexico with their high illegal immigrant population.
In Pueblo country they were so welcoming that they ignored the illegal grows for a couple of years, those grows are being sponsored by some criminal organizations, and are dangerous as hell, and of course Pueblo county is just now realizing that allowing them to operate is a big problem. Just 2 weeks ago they caught someone growing 600 plants or so being sponsored by Chinese gangs out of LA and shipped to Texas and New Mexico, where it is illegal. It is illegal for them to grow anywhere in the country for distribution to other states, Pueblo ignored it for too long and now they are paying the price.
From all reports most people do not think proposition 200 will pass in Pueblo, the citizens see the widespread benefits from the legal businesses, but there are plenty that are pissed at their police force for ignoring the illegal activities and then trying to blame everything on legal activities.
So the people in Pueblo are rightfully pissed off because their city has turned into a haven for stoners.
Comes as no surprise. The stoners are now rising out of their stupor to vote on the dope issue. Once that's done the exhausted stoners will disappear into a drug induced fugue.
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Homeless have been going to Colorado for years. And Pueblo has pretty much been Colorado's murder capital for years, pot or not. Pueblo has issues that go beyond marijuana.
Reefer madness has little/nothing to do with facts.
Legalizing MJ is a victory for freedom from the prudes and control freaks determined to make certain that all people are able to be exploited by employers to make as much money as possible. What to you thing "maximum potential" means?
Wow half of babies are born as stoners. So then it doesn't just affect the individual using it after all.
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