Posted on 05/23/2014 12:15:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Nearly five months into Colorados great pot experiment, the early returns are good. In Denver, home to the bulk of the first-in-the-nation retail stores, violent crime fell by 5.6 percent over the first four months of the year, with major property crimes down nearly twice that, according to the citys police. State coffers, meanwhile, are flush with tax revenues from the nearly $50 million worth of recreational weed that was sold through March, the last month for which official estimates are available. Those sales translate into $7.3 million for the state, a number that jumps to $12.6 million when you factor in medical marijuana and licensing fees. Lawmakers are already trying to figure out how to spend future revenues that are projected to reach $98 million this year alone.
Its too soon, however, to call Colorados measure an unqualified success. Officials had long warned of unforeseen problems once the retail stores opened their doors on Jan. 1, and such fears have proved legitimate thanks largely to how people are choosing to get high. So-called edibles are being blamed for an increase in the number of pot-related emergency room visits, including those from a half-dozen or so children who unknowingly ate pot-laced treats. The baked goods and candies also are believed to have played a role in two deaths in the past two monthsproviding opponents with front-page anecdotes that run counter to the cannabis-kills-no-one narrative long trumpeted by legalization advocates. A college student visiting from Wyoming jumped to his death from a Denver hotel balcony in March after consuming six times the recommended dose of a pot-infused cookie. The following month, a Denver man is believed to have shot and killed his wife after eating pot-laced candy, although police concede that he may have had other drugs in his system, too....
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Under ObamaCare, the surgeon will be stoned.
Zippo, track down your old dealers and get your money back.
You've been ripped off.
I'm also tired of the gangsterism that accompanies illegal drug sales. If the price of MJ falls to where it should be, there will be few who could make a living on it. Such people will have to find a real job, flipping burgers or perhaps something that requires that they can read.
Perhaps then it might become safe to explore the Mendocino forest without the threat of being accosted by the guardians of illegal grow operations.
Here in my area the local state rep introduced a bill to tax the he11 out of e cigs, he’s a big tobacco farmer and of course the state want its graft from their sale. I haven’t heard if it has passed but I am using them to quit smoking while keeping my weight down. Even though it saves lives they will still tax it out of existence, they are all still chasing the once mighty dollar.
Quick question salt for our roads went from 62 bucks/ton to 85.40 this year. What % increase is this, my local rag says 20%, I would like to know for sure since I figure in rough numbers in my head, not sure if I can even put it on paper, any help out there before I call and make an a55 out of myself? Looks slightly over 33% to me.
Sounds like 28%
I got almost 38%.
Pretty much a math moron here, but seems to me the calculation is
85.4- 62 = 23.4
23.4/62 = 0.377
So 38% increase.
Does that look right to you?
Yep. I could not figure out the method, as I said I noticed that 62 from 85.4 is 23.4 x 3 the three being 1/3 so I got 33 plus a few %. That is how I figure odd aint it. I never figure anything to the exact figure just rough it out.
I am guessing the genius who wrote the article you mentioned subtracted last year’s rate from this year’s and concluded that $23 must be about 20%.
As I said, I am a math moron, but, if I were publishing an article, I would make darned sure I had researched the math before I made such a statement. But I guess I am just old-fashioned. Today, our so-called journalists don’t even believe in proofreading.
I aint much of a speller but they spelled toys usage as in toys with the idea of running toyes. Don’t look right to me but as I said if it weren’t for spell check everything I write would be incomprehensible. Spell check that.
I am not following your comment. I don’t see “toys” in the piece.
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