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While Democratic policies are ushering in diseases of the medieval ages to California, they are bringing the Wild West Back to Colorado.
Amazing, how under Bill Owens in late 1990s and early 2000s the state was a beacon of conservative success and had an excellent quality of life.
Now, it's just a state trying to be San Francisco with it's ultra-leftist flower shipping and e-birthday card tycoon governor and legislature that would make Califonia liberals blush in envy.
Looks like the internet flower and birth day card tycoon Democratic governor and legislature has been great for Colorado.
A state with a dismissive open-air drug culture that is celebrated. Now, they are talking about legalizing mushrooms and they would have opened heroin injection cafe's if the feds would have allowed it.
Seems like Colorado is in excellent place to live in 2018. Denver, Aurora Colorado Springs have sky-high crime. Huge heroin issue, especially in Democratic Pueblo and Southern Colorado and suicides rates that are twice the national average.
Odd, how conservative Nebraska which is supports our commander and chief and President Trump has so few problems compared to Colorado.
67 homicides in Denver last year more than double the number of 2000 and 2010
49 homicides in El Paso County which includes Colorado Springs
Violent crime skyrocketing in Aurora, Pueblo and Lakewood
Simple math. Denver has a population of 704,621 people. With 67 murders, that adds up to a murder rate of 9.5 murders per 100,000. Wild West ,huh?
Tulsa, Oklahoma, a conservative city: About 64 murder murders, not all that much lower than Denver in terms of raw murders. Population, 401,800. Murder rate: 15.9 murders per 100,000.
Oklahoma has one of the highest incarceration rates in America. It hasn't stopped its drug problems, especially in Tulsa. Oklahoma is conservative. Tulsa is a Republican city.
Colorado Springs (which is in El Paso county) is also known for being pretty conservative. It's the home of Focus on the Family, the Air Force Academy, and several military bases. So the 'liberal policy' argument doesn't really work there.....
Your two words have been a great thing for Colorado, because thousands of people are no longer having a War waged against them. The number of careers, homes, cars, and intact families saved is incalculable.
and I thought consuming pot was supposed to mellow people out?
It might do that in the users, but legal drugs attract the wrong kind of people. Same thing happened in Holland. The decriminalized pot, and crime families poured in and brought all kinds of crime with them.
The murder rate in CO is still not high (many conservative cities are mush worse), but it is important to note the increase.
Which again, doesn't really quite explain Colorado Springs/El Paso, since as of a month ago, there are only two recreational marijuana stores in El Paso county:
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