Colorado legal marijuana backfiring: Triple-homicide in Boulder County latest in string of marijuana policy gone bad (Canada, Denver)
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That's what makes it so awesome. Conservatives hoped and prayed that legal pot would turn Colorado and Denver into a cesspool of violence. Murder, rape, assault. City on fire, SWAT teams in the streets.
NOPE. None of that happened. Not only did crime in Colorado not go up like conservatives had hoped, but the economy is booming. Denver has the 2nd highest housing market in the USA, after San Fran.
Tourism is booming. Downtown Denver's skyline is filled with cranes and construction. more and more people are moving to Denver from all over the country.
But legalizing pot in Colorado has the economy here exploding. Denver and the surrounding suburbs can't build houses,aapartments, and expand highways fast enough to keep up with the growth.
Yup, it also opens people up to new drugs. They are always chasing that better high. Just look at all the heroin now that we have this national drug push.
Wrong again. Another huge fail.
100 million people have tried pot. About 4 million have tried heroin and About half million heroin addicts.
With the "gateway theory" propaganda you're trying to push there should be 100 million heroin addicts.
A MASSIVE surge? Those are hardly upticks over the 5/6 year span.
How do these numbers square with population increase over the same period?
This isn't even getting into the fact that while legal in Colorado, it is an all cash business because of the fed. Who would have thought, companies with HUGE amounts of cash on hand, people having to house this money and occasionally transport it, would be robbed/killed by greedy individuals looking to make a fast buck?!
A 67% increase in homicides could be a massive increase or it could be insignificant, it depends on the original rate that is being modified by 1.67 - The reason this is true is because a measure of the rate of change of the murder rate is a meta stat (stat about other stats). And thus it's relevance depends on the primary stats it is measuring.
Scenario 1)
If there are 10 murders in a town of 100,000 and there is a 70% increase in the murder rate you have gone from a .01% murder rate to .017% leaving an actual increase in the odds of getting murdered by .007% which is pretty insignificant. It took a total of 7 murders to equate to a 70% increase. So, one serial killer in this town could raise the entire murder rate of the town by 70% by themselves.
Scenario 2)
If there are 1000 murders in a town of 100,000 and there is a 70% increase in the murder rate you have gone from a 1% muder rate to 1.7% leaving an actual increase in the odds of getting murdered by .7% which is fairly substantial as far as murder rates go. This time, it took a total of 700 additional murders to equate to the same 70% increase.
TL;DR
When you already have a tiny number of murders relative to the population the rate of change when deviances from the norm occur is much higher.
Scenario 1 needed only needed 7 extra murders to exhibit a 70% increase.
Scenario 2 needed 700.
No, it's not backed up by anything, literally. Mine is backed by simple logic. An illegal hallucinogen was found in the blood of two people who ate other people's faces off. But you would have us believe that it's all a coincidence and the real culprit is some other invisible substance.
The signature of marijuana can be detected for as much as a month after the last time the substance was used. That does not mean they are under the effects anymore than a fat person must have a cake in their stomach.
Also, even if the face eating was caused by marijuana, there are an estimated 40 million regular users of marijuana in the US. Let's say, conservatively, that they smoke 4 times a week on average, that is 160 million instances of marijuana usage per week. over one year, that makes 8,320,000,000 instances of marijuana usage per year.
8,320,000,000 : 2
That is the very definition of an anomaly. You are actually far more likely to have your face eaten by a cougar or a bear than a marijuana user.
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