I voted for marijuana legalization, and I'm glad it passed. It's none of my (or anyone else's) business if someone wants to use pot, any more than it is if they use alcohol.
I think it is some kind of door way to the demonic realms
"Demons"? Really?
Posted on 08/03/2018 12:00:16 PM PDT by beaversmom
So... alcohol is harmless?
Yep, I remember those, too. It’s been going on for a while.
No, I would say that used to be California, but the nut jobs have destroyed that. The author fails to mention the legalization of marijuana and what effects that has had on his state. I dont think it can be discounted. And the Colorado liberal streak goes back decades - they declined the 1976 Winter Olympics. At Aspen, you have the super-rich driving out the merely rich. The Colorado the author cites... did it even exist the last fifty years?
So they finally split CA...
America has freedom of movement. You can’t tell people they can’t move to a state. Colorado attracts physically active people who come to live close by the fabulous outdoor activities and beauty available.
The Front Range is urban and lousy, like all urban areas. The area and town I live in on the western slope is great. You wouldn’t even know pot was legal here. No pot stores, no overt use, no hang-abouts on the streets. Business is booming.
There are more summer tourists in the county than I’ve ever seen. They’ll be gone soon. Then the hunters will come, they spend a lot of money.
I’ve been here 42 years and it’s great, no plans to leave.
Drugs in our nation our certainly a problem. I have conflicting feelings on mj, and I don’t know all the consequences of legalization here in CO and elsewhere, but meth and heroin are destroying lives, families, and the decency and souls of people. I’m going to post a short video report on that next.
lol!
Rename it Colofornia!
I grew up on the Western Slope and loved it. But I am looking at Utah or Idaho as retirement draws near. Can’t wait to leave California.
Sorry that title has already been taken by New Mexico now known as The Peoples Republic Of Eastern California.
bump to that!
The marijuana is a draw for ex-Californians.
I would do the Western Slope or Utah or Arizona. I know every place has problems. I love the front range. I’ve been here since 75. But there are problems. And I foresee even bigger problems the bigger we get here.
Ahhh...shoot. Where are they heading in NM? Santa Fe? ABQ? Or other parts?
I voted for marijuana legalization, and I'm glad it passed. It's none of my (or anyone else's) business if someone wants to use pot, any more than it is if they use alcohol.
I think it is some kind of door way to the demonic realms
"Demons"? Really?
True enough...
Noteworthy that James Dobson’s Focus on the Family moved from a Los Angeles suburb to Colorado Springs because it saw California as becoming more intolerant and hostile to Christians and family values. It looks like California belatedly followed them.
I spent my junior high days in Littleton just south of Denver (suburb where the Columbine High School massacre took place) in the late 1960s in a sprawling ranch house between the distant South Platte River on one side and the lush mountains on the other.
My sister relocated to the hogback southwest of Denver back in the 1980s and the land of that big ranch home had been subdivided into numerous homes with an artificial fishing pond added onto the property. The Centennial horse race track was gone and much of the sprawling land around the house had been built up with homes.
To me, the charm was lost then. The open western charm has vanished, replaced by suburban sprawl. If you want to reclaim that lifestyle, best to move to Wyoming, Idaho or Montana but they, too, are working through their own California invasion.
In Iowa we are actually advertising in Chicago to bring us your welfare dependent people. It is our own fault but it sure isn’t how we voted.
“The common denominator is marijuana “
I don’t care if people smoke marijuana (not my children, though), but I tell people all the time that it has changed the culture in Colorado, which we visit 4-5 times a year. It’s all about marijuana in Colorado- it has taken over the culture in many places there. States should be very careful making the decision to legalize it!
Moved to Colorado Springs in 1980..left in 2001...to many people...
In 1980 there was nothing from the Air Force Academy to the Denver Tech Center
Now it has houses both sides of the interstate...Except the ranch on the East side north of Colorado Springs..State owns it sort of..
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