Cities are selling their soul to the devil, one ounce at a time.
Spending every dime of their “windfall” and then some...
And they will not save a dime of it.
They should look at Atlantic City. The good times come and go quickly.
So I say, I say welcome, welcome to the Boomtown
Pick a habit, we got plenty to go around
Welcome, welcome to the Boomtown
All that money makes such a succulent sound
Welcome to the Boomtown
“”””Colorado continues to provide an interesting experiment in the legalization of a plant that has been demonized by government for decades. “”””””
Good thing the government doesn’t demonize plants. Oh wait, have they heard of a plant called tobacco? They used to say that was just a plant, too.
My son became psychotic after going to college in Colorado and using cannabis.
Google: ‘psychosis’ and ‘cannabis’, and you will find many studies proving a connection.
“They found that those who used cannabis by the age of 15 were more than three times (i.e. 300% higher) as likely to develop illnesses such as schizophrenia.”
“...it was a frightening repeat of an episode a few days earlier when, with no papers to roll a joint, he ate a chunk of cannabis resin and collapsed in a nightclub toilet. ‘When I woke up I heard someone saying: “It’s OK Steve, you can get up now, you’re all right”,’ he recalls. ‘When I looked around, there was no one there...That’s when my voices started and I’ve had them ever since.”
It’s a plant. God grew it, a lot of us smoke it, and that settles it. Don’t like it? Don’t use it.
Denver collected $29 million last year through taxes and licensing fees;
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About 1/2 mill per week in taxes and fees.
What is the tax rate?; what are the gross sales to produce this?
As with all “Vices”, legalize it and tax it.
Put the money to productive, public use.
Those adults that wish to puff the chiba, go ahead.
Those that wish to imbibe their Maker’s Mark, so be it.
Those that ooze at the thought of chocolate covered, chocolate filled, chocolate sprinkled, chocolate caked donuts, have at it.
But don’t make me pay for it.
I have my own vice; my Weiand 6-71 needs premium.
Yeah, ‘funded’...JUST LIKE THEY WERE ‘FUNDED’ WITH CASINOS.
In other words, given a pittance when the politicians didn’t rob the designated fund dry (which is the usual state of affairs) and in return for a bevy of social problems that cost far more.
Propaganda. For my part, I will continue to regard pot users as brain-damaged subhuman liberal idolators who worship a plant through a form of chemical masturbation, worthy only of being the stopping place for bullets or blades.
It’s a good time to sell Ding Dongs, Twinkies and Fig Newtons.
For your interest.
at what cost? Pot smoking leads to mental retardation. It causes people to vote have think liberal. It is intrinsic clear & present danger to our nation that are people, our future
If I recall all the Lottery money was to go to schools. Never happened.
The sloth, crime and heartbreak that emanates from the weed-b-gone community is not a fair trade.
And these panhandlers were all over the main intersections in Colorado Springs.
This is just the beginning and all the other horror stories of how it effecting people. And this is not even discussing the Heroin epidemic in MI, OH, MA and so many other states.
These municipalities are short sighted, what will they do when it bites them in the arse with addiction issues get out of control...
It doesn’t offset the lost productivity of those who now sit at home stoned, don’t go earn more money or do more to help family out.
There is a reason dystopias drug people into complacency and describe it as a good.
Like alcohol or cigarettes, it is not for those under 18-if you are an adult and want to roll a joint or light the bong, go for it-I haven’t had a toke in years, but I like to kick back with a glass of wine and a cigarette now and then. If an adult wants to let their pleasures turn into addictions-whether it is pot, alcohol, tobacco, a dozen chocolate eclairs or promiscuous sex, I really don’t care, as long as you don’t harm or bother anyone, or try to make it anyone else’s problem-if you are becoming addicted, go for therapy instead of whining to be given tax money by claiming your choice is a “disease”...
Ar there any before-after articles? What about http://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2015/02/10/new-study-shows-smoking-pot-permanently-lowers-iq/ ?