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Colorado Is Consuming Way More Pot Than Anyone Ever Believed
Time Magazine ^ | July 10, 2014 | Maya Rhodan

Posted on 07/12/2014 2:55:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

And most is consumed by a minority of daily users.

About 9% of Colorado’s population consumes marijuana, according to a market demand study conducted by the state department of revenue’s Marijuana Enforcement Division and the state’s Marijuana Policy Group. And those users, it’s estimated, will get through about 121.4 metric tons of pot every year.

According to the report, that consumption — calculated through survey results, demographic data and source data — is “31 percent higher than a recent department of revenue assessment, 89 percent higher than a study by the Colorado Futures Center, and 111 percent higher than an older study by the Colorado Center for Law and Policy.”

The state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division analyzed the market demand for the drug, which Colorado began selling for recreational use in January, in an effort to “effectively manage production within the regulated industry,” according to a press release.

According to the study, published Wednesday, the bulk of the demand for the drug comes from the most frequent users....

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TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Government; Local News
KEYWORDS: cannabis; colorado; libertarians; marijuana; medicalmarijuana; pot; rockymountainhigh; wod
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To: CodeToad
Those that didn’t smoke pot didn’t start.

Don't be naive. Ready availability and social (and legal) acceptance of the drug is going to create new users. Primarily among young people who are already desirous of peer acceptance.

61 posted on 07/12/2014 7:00:03 AM PDT by LouAvul (If government is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

62 posted on 07/12/2014 7:03:01 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: jacknhoo; samtheman

What I have seen for 50 years is the pot smokers who are not addicted, yet will do anything to secure their pot, even when it meant a felony for possession (for instance in Texas when pot was first breaking out). People who risk their careers and and jail and reputations to do something that didn’t mean anything to them supposedly.


63 posted on 07/12/2014 7:04:05 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
According to the study, published Wednesday, the bulk of the demand for the drug comes from the most frequent users...

Imagine that! I wonder how much the study cost to come up with that earth-shattering discovery?

64 posted on 07/12/2014 7:09:54 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: sakic
I have never observed a successful pothead. In my place of work, it would be difficult to have a drug addiction in any case, since my employer does random drug testing. Marijuana will continue to show positive results for weeks after a single use.
65 posted on 07/12/2014 7:13:19 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

The steady leftward slide of the state’s Demwits continues to puzzle analysts.

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.


66 posted on 07/12/2014 8:05:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: exDemMom
Spending $100 dollars to provide entitlements to get back $10 in sales taxes is hardly profitable.

That's OK...as long as they democrat.../S

Government and profitable are oxymorons...

67 posted on 07/12/2014 8:45:45 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Popman
That's OK...as long as they democrat.../S

Make that "vote" democrat

68 posted on 07/12/2014 8:49:03 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where there’s smoke...there’s Colorado.


69 posted on 07/12/2014 9:20:06 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: NonValueAdded

Mission accomplished.


70 posted on 07/12/2014 9:20:46 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: LouAvul

Many people will switch from other habits and intoxicants to pot, so yes there will be new pot users.

The silver lining of the pot smoke cloud is that it makes America’s problem more obvious. When life seems to get so unbearable and pointless that one’s chief desire is to drown one’s sorrows in pot, something that is in some ways less acutely harmful than alcohol, it will now become obvious.

I hope it will become more obvious that people need to be high, but high on God. God will also make you do things that the world says are stupid. God will make you generous when the world says you should fight those who grab things from you. God will make you love people who have treated you ugly, and yet not in an unhealthy way that makes you dependent upon them. God will take the unnecessary self-caused stress out of your life. In fact, God gives every good thing that could plausibly be ascribed to pot smoking, but without the stupor.


71 posted on 07/12/2014 9:29:53 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DPMD

2 Mile High City.


72 posted on 07/12/2014 9:30:14 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: LouAvul

Maybe you should parent better and stop blaming everyone else for your kids doing pot.


73 posted on 07/12/2014 2:27:48 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: PastorBooks
What company in their right mind is going to want to open up shop in Colorado after they hear this?

The same ones who turn a profit in the 50 states where alcohol is legal and widely used.

74 posted on 07/12/2014 2:44:45 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: samtheman
I do believe there is a long-term carry-over into memory and productivity with pot

There is measurable reduction in reaction times and the like for 12-24 hours after use. More than alcohol - but certainly too thin a reed on which to hang legality for one versus a complete ban of the other.

if 10%, 20%, 30% or more people become permanently non-productive

I see no reason to expect that.

75 posted on 07/12/2014 2:49:49 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: exDemMom
Pot is more carcinogenic than tobacco.

Actually, last I heard the most serious lung ailment that had been conclusively linked to marijuana was bronchitis. (Not that I'd be shocked to learn it causes cancer.)

76 posted on 07/12/2014 2:53:03 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: exDemMom

But converting $100 dollars of federal entitlements to $10 in state sales taxes is profitable- for the state.


77 posted on 07/12/2014 3:15:09 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: CodeToad
You know, FR used to be a decent place till you libertarian fools infested it. You've got no national voice because you're idiots, yet here you are.

You've got me confused with someone who cares what dopers think.

78 posted on 07/12/2014 4:25:54 PM PDT by LouAvul (If government is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: exDemMom

Your observations aside, I know two immensely successful potheads. One was the number 2 at one of America’s largest corporations.


79 posted on 07/12/2014 8:04:49 PM PDT by sakic
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To: LouAvul
You've got no national voice

And yet a majority of Americans agree with libertarians that pot should be legalized. Go figure.

80 posted on 07/13/2014 1:25:17 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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