Letter from Denver District Attorney on Marijuana and Crime

[Mazin]

Yes California please legalize pot and take back your people moving here. While your at it tell New York and other states on the east coast to follow suit.

Brought to you by the "GTFO Colorado Foundation".

[MarkCO]

I will never be in favor of legalization of drugs, but it is also clear that the "War on Drugs" and the way in which most large urban cities deal with it does not work either.

This solution is one that is intriguing and one I wish more people would consider, regardless of their personal view of drug use. There is obviously more than just this cover story, but when there is no benefit in crime for those on either side, I see that as reasonable policy.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10301780.html

[Gman]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10301780.html

Interesting note from an associated photo piece on where drugs are or aren't legal that I didn't seen mentioned in the linked article;

In 2001, Portugal became the first country in the world to decriminalize the use of all drugs, and started treating drug users as sick people, instead of criminals. However, you can still be arrested or assigned mandatory rehab if you are caught several times in possession of drugsGetty

[MarkCO]

Interesting note from an associated photo piece on where drugs are or aren't legal that I didn't seen mentioned in the linked article;

Portugal decriminalized drugs, not made them legal. There is a difference. They basically treat them like traffic violations and if someone has a problem, like a health issue.

[asmo]

There is a giant political push (eg. multiple millions of dollars) by the Democrats to get California to say NO to the Marijuana law there. It is a calculated strategy to get the left leaning folks to go to other states and influence elections there (e.g. what happened to Colorado).

[Irving]

Even with full legalization in the entire US, Colorado will still be cursed with being Colorado. If you can get high anywhere in the US, would you rather move to Oklahoma or Colorado?

[Great-Kazoo]

There is a giant political push (eg. multiple millions of dollars) by the Democrats to get California to say NO to the Marijuana law there. It is a calculated strategy to get the left leaning folks to go to other states and influence elections there (e.g. what happened to Colorado).

if that were true CA, would become a ghost town within the month. There's millions of dollars riding on the ballot in CA with anyone heavily involved dropping $$$$

[osok-308]

So mj caused all of the crime? Nothing to do with the ever increasing flow of illegals?

It would be easier to read if the he could proof read it for spelling errors. Its not very professional.

It's not just illegals. It also stretches to the amount of legal people we have moving here. I can't tell you how many times I speak with people whose main reason for moving here was for the legalized weed. Correlation does not always mean CAUSATION. That being said, more people moving out here causes an increase in population. More people = more potential criminals and victims, which, = higher crime rates. I'm not stating that weed is causing increases in crime, I'm stating that increase in population leads to an increase in crime. People moving out here for the weed may cause an increase in crime. It's not the weed, it's the people that come here FOR the weed.

[GilpinGuy]

It's not the weed, it's the people that come here FOR the weed.

Hmmm, almost sounds like "Guns don't kill people, people kill people."

[wctriumph]

Here is the deal with MMJ. As I have said before, my wife has a MMJ card as prescribed by her former doctor for management of her chronic pain. However, her doctor retired and her new pain management doctor has said that she can't treat my wife if she tests positive for MJ. They test her every month as per the regulation in the affordable care act. It is against the law to treat her if she uses MJ, even if legal in the state. She suffers because of it and the doctor can't do anything about it and because of the regulations in the law to deter the abuse of prescription drugs, the .gov monitors what she can and cannot use.

It is a fucked up situation.

On that note, I completely believe that crime has gone up significantly with the legalization of recreational MJ.