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Nobody here in Colorado said illicit drug use is tolerated. You might want to look up stats and stop the propaganda. Hep C is prominent through out the country but you don't want to mention that because you have a special kind of hate towards Colorado.
The hate isn't necessarily Colorado, the hate is on freedoms and the rights of the individual.
While most recreational users of opioids/ opiates began their journey's with alcohol and pot, most drinkers and pot users do not use opioids/ opiates , recreationally.
I have very mixed feelings about legalizing marijuana for recreational use.
I do not understand the desire to use substance to relax, take the edge off, numb, feel better or different or more social.
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Prescription pills are the gateway to heroin, NOT marijuana.
Conservatives will be quick to blame anything that happens in Colorado on marijuana legalization because they can't live with the fact that people actually have the right to feel good in that state. Sorry, Baptists, but public opinion is moving against you and it will be legal in all 50 states by 2050.
Behind nearly every recreational pill popper is someone who began their journey with alcohol and/ or pot.
Most drinkers and pot users do not move on to hard drugs.
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If you want to attack Colorado prison healthcare, fine.
But don't try to push your agenda saying that "Colorado's liberal drug policy" (legalizing marijuana) has ANYTHING to do with the heroin problem.
Last I checked, heroin is becoming an epidemic across the country, not just Colorado. But the OP, in attempts to push a conservative agenda, tried to sell the idea that Colorado has a heroin problem because of legal weed.
The OP failed to mention that Colorado has the lowest unemployment in the country, and much of that has to do with legal marijuana. Doesn't fit their anti-liberal agenda.
If you want to attack Colorado prison healthcare, fine.
But don't try to push your agenda saying that "Colorado's liberal drug policy" (legalizing marijuana) has ANYTHING to do with the heroin problem.
Last I checked, heroin is becoming an epidemic across the country, not just Colorado. But the OP, in attempts to push a conservative agenda, tried to sell the idea that Colorado has a heroin problem because of legal weed.
The OP failed to mention that Colorado has the lowest unemployment in the country, and much of that has to do with legal marijuana. Doesn't fit their anti-liberal agenda.
Exactly!
I am a Colorado voter who voted in favor of marijuana. I personally do not use pot, but I respect the freedom of those who choose to do so.
It's interesting that the OP tries to paint Colorado as some crumbling, druggie wasteland when in fact, the opposite is true. If anything, the economy here is so hot that I wish it would slow down a bit so that housing and infrastructure can catch up. OP, we appreciate your concern, but trust me... we are doing just fine here in Colorado.
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I just died of hep c from injecting 6 marijuanas.
Funny the Reefer Madness crowd trying tie this into Colorado's legalizied cannabis considering some of the worst areas for opioid addiction like NW Ohio have no such cannabis available and is hardly a liberal state.
Colorado also has a very high rate of heroin users so I am not surprised that there are so over 2,200 inmates with hepatitis C.
Now, the state seems to be denying effective treatment to people with highly-contagious hepatitis C behind bars
Colorado basically opened a big can of worms by basically telling the nation and world that illicit drug use is tolerated, so now they are up to 2,200 inmates with hepatitis C and the state is refusing effective treatment.
The law of unintended consequences is that Colorado wanted to be ultra-liberal and tolerant when it came to drugs so it is full of gateway drug users who slip into heroin and the corrections systems is falling apart because the state is so overwhelmed with heroin addicts in prison.
So I see you are using the prison population as an indicator for trends for the whole state. That's an interesting statistical sample.
While most recreational users of opioids/ opiates began their journey's with alcohol and pot, most drinkers and pot users do not use opioids/ opiates , recreationally.
I have very mixed feelings about legalizing marijuana for recreational use.
I do not understand the desire to use substance to relax, take the edge off, numb, feel better or different or more social.
The dirty little secret of opioid addictions is that most began with a legitimate prescription.
Colorado also has a very high rate of heroin users so I am not surprised that there are so over 2,200 inmates with hepatitis C.
Now, the state seems to be denying effective treatment to people with highly-contagious hepatitis C behind bars
Colorado basically opened a big can of worms by basically telling the nation and world that illicit drug use is tolerated, so now they are up to 2,200 inmates with hepatitis C and the state is refusing effective treatment.
The law of unintended consequences is that Colorado wanted to be ultra-liberal and tolerant when it came to drugs so it is full of gateway drug users who slip into heroin and the corrections systems is falling apart because the state is so overwhelmed with heroin addicts in prison.
One in 34 baby boomers have Hep C. It is curable, but the treatment costs $100,000.
If you want to attack Colorado prison healthcare, fine.
But don't try to push your agenda saying that "Colorado's liberal drug policy" (legalizing marijuana) has ANYTHING to do with the heroin problem.
Last I checked, heroin is becoming an epidemic across the country, not just Colorado. But the OP, in attempts to push a conservative agenda, tried to sell the idea that Colorado has a heroin problem because of legal weed.
The OP failed to mention that Colorado has the lowest unemployment in the country, and much of that has to do with legal marijuana. Doesn't fit their anti-liberal agenda.
Also, heroin is a huge problem in other states where marijuana is not legal, just as Ohio and Appalachia. If there is a desire to end addictive substances, where is the call to end alcohol consumption?
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The dirty little secret of opioid addictions is that most began with a legitimate prescription.
Absolutely true.
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One in 34 baby boomers have Hep C. It is curable, but the treatment costs $100,000.
It doesn't have **** all to do with marijuana.
True.
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crowd trying tie this into Colorado's legalizied cannabis considering some of the worst areas for opioid addiction like NW Ohio have no such cannabis available and is hardly a liberal state.
