Somebody roll out Reefer Madness!! Throw all the hippies in jail, that's the solution!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esfKfTBGadg
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Somebody roll out Reefer Madness!! Throw all the hippies in jail, that's the solution!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esfKfTBGadg
No DA's have been shot since the legalization!
http://www.denverpost.com/2008/08/28...t-denver-home/
The amount of calls for service I've had, solely because someone was smoking weed, is a small handful compared to the amount of people I've spoken with who have told me that they moved out here specifically for the weed. I have no problem with marijuana, I don't use it, but I've seen the research that can highlight it's benefits. I'm anti-people-smoking-it-in-public/anti-people-adding-it-to-already-volatile-situations/anti-people-smoking-pot-and-driving. As with EVERYTHING, the problem is the people who choose to break the law.Quote:
Originally Posted by GilpinGuy
http://reason.com/blog/2016/10/28/wh...-so-much-moneyQuote:
Originally Posted by Erni
as I said, they are spending tons of money to keep weed illegal.
My agency has handled over 20 mj related homicides this year. Those directly related to legal or illegal grow operations or those suspects who moved here for the weed.
The gov's office announced recently the state budget is short $227-$300 million for next fiscal year, primarily due to medicare increases and increases for k-12 funding requirements (Amendment 23) and the slowing of the energy economy. Why do you think there are increases to social services? Possibly low or no income people moving here for the weed?
As it is with a lot of things. Only (IMO) the same people who supported the law (. elected officials) are now trying to lay blame on an object, rather than the person using the object.Quote:
Originally Posted by osok-308
Which i "think" may be a sign the same .gov folks will sit by when the feds / IRS swoop in. Confiscating everything (as they did in CA) under the guise of ill gotten gains. Rinse & Repeat
I will have to agree. While I do see a great number of crimes committed by illegals (which has probably always been the case) the majority of citizens that I contact who are illegal (also a large number) on a daily basis appear to be people who want a better life and don't want any trouble, from criminals or law enforcement. However I would say the crime rate may have more of a mixture of things including the side effects of legalizing marijuana. And not crimes like possession, MIP, smoking in public. DUI drug related arrests and deaths have gone up everywhere significantly for one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Definitely not.Quote:
Originally Posted by HBARleatherneck
I think this is a hilarious over-simplification, but you're on the right track. It's no coincidence that the minute Amendment 64 was passed, California and New York plates started polluting every lane of traffic from Wadsworth to Tower Road. And once the riff raff realized they could pay the same price to live in less congested cities AND smoke herb all day and night without legal interference, they came a flocking.Quote:
Nothing to do with the ever increasing flow of illegals?
Legalizing weed won't inherently increase crime; the problem is that we were the first ones to open the "haven". As such, we got the first rush. Hopefully marijuana will be de-criminalized federally so that we aren't seen as a destination anymore. Take away the motivation for people to move and the pilgrimage ends.
Unfortunately, Denver is one of the best job markets in the nation right now, and despite the ungodly increase in the cost of living since 2013, we're still cheaper than Chicago, Boston, NYC, LA, et. al. The increase in our cost of living won't be ending any time soon, me thinks.
It almost doesn't even matter that it was marijuana that was legalized. If Colorado cigarettes completely free, you'd still have people move here to utilize that benefit. The thing is, if you're the kind of person who can reasonably pick up your whole life and move to another location just for a hobby, then you probably aren't exactly a desirable transplant in the first place. I imagine ski towns must have seen this with ski bums moving in to teach ski lessons every winter and then bum around the rest of the year.
This x1,000. I would gladly vote for a bill that gave a surf board, and a bus ticket to anyone who wanted to leave Colorado for San Diego or LA.Quote:
Originally Posted by funkymonkey1111
Velocitas, Opprimere,
Violentia Operandi
I think you are on to something there. Why not just skip the middle men though? Start a fundraiser that straight up buys ONE WAY plane tickets or bus tickets for any Colorado resident that wants to move to California. Drop them off right in Santa Monica at the pier!Quote:
Originally Posted by MOLON LABE
I would donate to that cause!
Did anyone see the 60 minutes segment on Colorado weed?
Pueblo was already a shithole, now so much more with illegal grow operations being conducted by cartels, Russian mafia, etc. trying to blend into the legal ops.
Worst part was Dickenpooper telling other states to, "take it slow and don't legalize yet, see how things work out in Colorado." WTF?
I thought Pueblo was a shit hole because of the meth.Quote:
Originally Posted by brutal
^^ THIS ^^Quote:
Originally Posted by foxtrot