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Pot seen as reason for rise in Denver homeless
AP ^ | 7/26/2014 | Unattributed AP

Posted on 07/26/2014 4:38:25 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell

Edited on 07/26/2014 4:39:04 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

DENVER (AP) — Officials at some Denver homeless shelters say the legalization of marijuana has contributed to an increase in the number of younger people living on the city’s streets.

One organization dealing with the increase is Urban Peak, which provides food, shelter and other services to homeless people aged 15 to 24 in Denver and Colorado Springs.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: cannabis; homelessness; libertarianagenda; marijuana; mentalillness; pot; wod
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Legal Abandonment of Children and Adolescents to the Glamour Marijuana Culture

Imagine if, when Prohibition was repealed, instead of shielding children from harmful exposure to alcohol, state and federal governments had essentially abandoned them to the glamour drinking culture.

We might have seen documentaries about the social problems by 1938. Socially conservative elements in society might have lamented the situation, given the fact that such conditions couldn’t have prevailed if there were an effective government of laws, not of men.

Eventually, society would have decayed to a film noir alternate reality like that in Dashiell Hammett’s horribly cynical “Red Harvest. The American “City on a Hill” would be well on its way to the complete dominance of brute force portrayed in Alessandro Manzoni’s “The Betrothed”.

This is essentially the situation today, with the news announcement that the US Justice Department will not prosecute any marijuana crimes unless there is indication of organized crime infiltration—as happened in the Netherlands when cannabis and hashish possession for personal use were decriminalized.

The core issue is that underage users are most seriously impacted. There are no public discussions about the effects upon minors of the marijuana gray market. The only group with an organized platform of political agitation is the “medical” marijuana industry, which has substantial incentives for current conditions to remain as they are, including essentially unregulated use by minors.

1 posted on 07/26/2014 4:38:25 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
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To: CharlesOConnell

Unexpected.


2 posted on 07/26/2014 4:42:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: CharlesOConnell
PotKids
3 posted on 07/26/2014 4:42:53 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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Why should they do anything? The government owes them and should pay for a comfortable lifestyle.


4 posted on 07/26/2014 4:43:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: CharlesOConnell

No one in that demographic has ever had any trouble whatsoever buying M.J. in the black market. Many of the homeless are too young to buy pot in the grey market.

A close reading of the article reveals the only reason there might be a link between legal pot, and homelessness in Denver — habitual users migrating back to Colorado, so that they can indulge their habit without fear of arrest (for possession or using).


5 posted on 07/26/2014 4:46:41 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: CharlesOConnell

This should surprise no one. Welfare and crime will also rise. Too bad for families who want a wholesome place to rear their children.


6 posted on 07/26/2014 4:47:55 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: CharlesOConnell

The headline, while accurate, is a little misleading. Pot is not causing people to go homeless in Colorado. Pot is the reason homeless people from other states are moving to Colorado.


7 posted on 07/26/2014 4:48:37 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Spending money on pot instead of bills, perhaps? The imbibers will want this article removed.


8 posted on 07/26/2014 4:49:11 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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“Officials at some Denver homeless shelters say the legalization of marijuana has contributed to an increase in the number of younger people living on the city’s streets.”

Easy to dope, easy to dupe. They have turned young people into good little Democrats. They have made them passive, dependent on others and unable to understnd or care what is going on around them.

EBT cards are being used in the marijuana stores. These young people are sitting around all day, being supported by others and contributing nothing to society. There is little or no reason to believe they will change.

The Democrats have won.


9 posted on 07/26/2014 4:49:25 PM PDT by detective
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Dude, where’s my house?


10 posted on 07/26/2014 4:50:40 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Please $upport Free Republic.)
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To: Veggie Todd

You absolutely nailed it.


11 posted on 07/26/2014 4:50:41 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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This is such a surprise! Who would’ve guessed this might ever happen? /s


12 posted on 07/26/2014 4:51:34 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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“Pot is the reason homeless people from other states are moving to Colorado.”

The article did not say that the entire increase in homeless people was due to people moving to Colorado from other states.

Some of it is. Some of it is locals choosing to get high all day.


13 posted on 07/26/2014 4:52:38 PM PDT by detective
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EBT cards are being used in the marijuana stores

You're not serious, are you?

14 posted on 07/26/2014 4:53:20 PM PDT by grania
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http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/01/21/welfare-weed-colorado-allows-ebt-withdrawals-pot-shops


15 posted on 07/26/2014 4:59:41 PM PDT by detective
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Mygosh, just when I thought crazyworld can't get crazier. The indigent can get stoned instead get food.

If crazy conservative me were in charge, no one would get any gov benefits at all if they tested positive for drinking or drugs.

16 posted on 07/26/2014 5:07:32 PM PDT by grania
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Haven’t they gotten a shipment of “immigrant chillllllldren” too recently?


17 posted on 07/26/2014 5:10:10 PM PDT by uncitizen (Buckle up! We're on the Facism Fast Track!)
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To: Veggie Todd

> The headline, while accurate, is a little misleading. Pot is not causing people to go homeless in Colorado. Pot is the reason homeless people from other states are moving to Colorado

It can’t be true. Others on here say it can’t be so. They say it’s not addicting.../s


18 posted on 07/26/2014 5:10:26 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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And, now Denver would like to “rehab” the Boettcher Performing Arts Center in downtown Denver, to house these folks. Goodbye Symphony, Opera and Ballet.
BTW, the Denver Downtown 16th Street Mall inhabitants look like zombies.


19 posted on 07/26/2014 5:13:18 PM PDT by virgin (Don't screw with me.)
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Total BS from the shelters as they look for easy money.

Bums always come to Colorado in the summer and most will move south like always when it gets cold.


20 posted on 07/26/2014 5:15:57 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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