Posted on 12/23/2017 9:50:01 AM PST by EveningStar
“Hopefully Kali will draw the homeless away from Colorado who came here for the pot.”
Hey knock it off, we have more so called homeless in California than any state. We don’t need any more!
Welfare in California:
34% Of the nation’s welfare recipients live in California
But only …12% of the U.S. population resides here
How we compare re welfare spending:
California is third among states in per-capita spending on welfare:
$179
New York leads the nation: $256
Idaho is at the bottom: $17
Excerpted, The San Diego Union-Tribune
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/s
Federal law prohibits gun purchases by an “unlawful user and/or an addict of any controlled substance.” In 2011, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms clarified in a letter that the law applies to marijuana users “regardless of whether [their] State has passed legislation authorizing marijuana use for medicinal purposes.” Though a growing number of states are legalizing it for medical or recreational use, marijuana remains illegal for any purpose under federal law, which considers the drug to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that the federal law passes muster with the Constitution, as “it is beyond dispute that illegal drug users, including marijuana users, are likely as a consequence of that use to experience altered or impaired mental states that affect their judgment and that can lead to irrational or unpredictable behavior.”
The court then concluded that it is reasonable to assume that a medical marijuana cardholder is a marijuana user, and hence reasonable to deny their gun purchase on those grounds.
EveningStar tells Where to legally buy recreational marijuana in California starting Jan. 1-—
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Pothead Nation.
Hey good idea! And now they won’t have to do without pot!
CO is NOT a good place to be homeless in winter. I live in Colorado Springs so I know.
So, as a kindly PSA, here it is: the bell curve is real. Depending on the data set being analyzed, it accurately depicts the distribution of characteristics/results across a continuum. With respect to drugs, there will always be a certain percentage who will never partake given any circumstances, and another segment that will always indulge regardless of penalties.
It's the latter category that becomes the issue at hand: the chronic abuser, the ones who create a drag on law & society. Society has two options, both which cost time and money. Once you understand that there's no free lunch or alternative to avoiding the bill, then the discussion can focus on preferences.
Here it is: (a) spend $billions on the criminal justice system; or (b) spend $billions on lost productivity and outreach programs; the total tally will be approximately the same. Option A keeps the abusers off the streets, but compromises basic civil rights and corrupts the very notion of liberty. Option B allows the abusers to congregate in public, creating an eyesore, diminishing property values, and creating a possible public nuisance/local crime problems.
Which one we want/choose should try to eliminate any artificial moral component. Already, we're getting posters complaining about homeless panhandlers; that's the cost of legalization. The cost of prohibition is no-knock raids, asset seizure/confiscation and a huge prison complex.
Up until just 100 years ago, societies since the dawn of time have had to deal with some percentage of the population basically committing "living" suicide. That is, having no purpose or intention of doing anything other than doing nothing, all the while under the influence of some substance. It's human nature - they drew the bad genes.
How we, the actively living, choose to deal with it is simply cosmetic, not fundamental.
No discussion of marijuana would be complete without mention of Ricky Gates, the Poster Boy for marijuana, who drove his Conrail train through 3 red stop signals head on into an Amtrak train in 1987, killing 16 and injuring 174. In a 1993 interview with the Baltimore Sun, Gates said the accident would have never happened if not for the marijuana.
LOL was that Frank Zappa or Cheech N chong?
Cheech and Chong. Frank wasn’t into drugs.
Not in about 6 months, but at least half a dozen various flavors since 2011...
The pro pot lobby is propagandizing this issue harder than any I recall in recent memory (If one excludes the Dem machine).
How the studies showing no negative impact are flawed:
https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/22/surveys-state-colorado-youth-marijuana-use-flawed-critics/
And here’s evidence pot use among high schoolers has risen dramatically:
https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/22/police-across-colorado-questioning-youth-marijuana-use/
“In a survey this year by the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, a federally funded agency that coordinates drug enforcement activities in a four-state region, 86 percent of Colorado resource officers said they believe marijuana use among students has risen dramatically. That’s up from 82 percent who said the same last year.”
Basically, there’s big money in under sampling biased survey information etc. to hide the rise in drug use among high school students in Colorado. Schools get to decide how to deal with it and they have relaxed enforcement. But counselors and resource officers on campus have noticed an uptick and I’ve read another study somewhere about declining graduation rates but that information seems to be deep sixed because the propaganda machine is on and cranking at high speed. Ask yourself how many high school students would prefer to do their homework or get high. Students literally lack sufficient brain development to make decisions at that age but they are instantly all too smart and mature to break any rules about smoking pot in Colorado.
Oh it’s hard to find buried statistics under the pile of propaganda but this article says Colorado’s teens lead the nation in pot use:
“A powerful marijuana industry lobby has emerged that sued Colorado to stop restrictions on advertising to protect children, and is now pushing back against municipal regulations to keep pot stores away from schools and day care facilities in other states,” said Kevin Sabet, president of Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM).
The sprawling metroplex from Ft Collins to Denver to Col Springs to Pueblo is having some issues with pot. I live in the mountains, and you’d never know any difference here.
Drinking and driving is still the biggest cause of arrests here.
Thanks for the ping. Since cannabis has been de-facto legal for many years I’m looking forward to seeing how their retail rollout goes.
Since California screws up so many good things I expect them to mess this up as well.
Dave’s not here...!!
“Remember. If you are recognized as a marijuana user either medicinal or recreational, by the Feds. You lose your right to keep and bear arms. If you get a prescription for same, you will fail a NICS check”
Land of the free...world’s only super power.
“We didn’t’ have no dope of LSD, but a couple of quartza beer....”
kindly psa-
Option C
Private property and individual responsibility.
You damage me or my property, you are responsible to make things whole. Debtors prison/Workhouse for those that cannot.
I can choose who to hire. You’re on drugs? Good bye.
It’s actually quite simple.
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