Posted on 09/15/2019 11:51:37 AM PDT by NobleFree
The good Stoner is a debit to society.
Collectivist twaddle. Guns and drugs are simply none of government's business - and the Constitution gives the fderal government no jurisdiction over either.
No too surprising that crime would drop with more armed security in the area...
“Crime dropping locally appears to be consistent with an increased police or private security presence in or around pot shops.”
More cops, less crime.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/pot-fuels-surge-drugged-driving-deaths-n22991
With the pot vaping and the drugged driving, I think the dea is going to set up the dispensaries once the industry grows a bit more and the government media puts out stories against pot. You know, most banks won’t take the dispensaries’ cash. It’s still a schedule 1 drug federally.
I’m just making an observation. IMO, each state should decide on drugs, not feds. Like healthcare, the States should have sovereignty here. But with respect to firearms, if it’s in the BOR, the states have to respect individual rights, so for example a state can’t pass a law against freedom of speech as well.
False. "The law didn't decriminalize public urination or unauthorized camping. You can still serve up to 60 days in jail for both if you're caught.
"The difference is you previously faced up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $999." - https://www.9news.com/article/news/verify/verify-no-denver-didnt-legalize-public-urination/73-503294787
That's what the U.S. Constitution demands.
From your link:
“marijuana can be detected in the blood for one week after consumption, perhaps leading chronic consumers to be wrongly arrested, critics of the law assert.
“A separate study — also based on FARS data — found that in states where medical marijuana was approved, traffic fatalities decrease by as much as 11 percent during the first year after legalization. Written by researchers at the University of Colorado, Oregon and Montana State University, the paper was published in 2013 in the Journal of Law & Economics.
“Those authors theorized pot, for some, becomes a substitute for alcohol. They cited a recent, 13-percent drop in drunk-driving deaths in states where medical marijuana is legal.”
nothing good has come from the use of those substances, legalizing them won’t change that. However, let us agree to disagree about this matter.
“Collectivist twaddle. “
Which do you not agree with?
Feel free to post links.
are the data without political bias.
So cops never speak out against legalization?
What legalization will change is the monopolization of the market by violent criminals.
Everyone was too high to commit any crimes :)
Actually, I’ve never met a stoner who was a criminal in any real sense of the word, except using pot, which is illegal.
Heroin junkies and meth heads and crack addicts will steal and worse to get money for their drugs.
Stoners might offer to mow the lawn for 30 bucks :)
I agree with you 100%.
Alkies would too - only because their drug is legal, they can scrape together the purchase price without stealing etc. Just sayin' ...
Or result in those violent criminals coercing lawful producers to give them a stake in the legal business. Every organized crime group in the country has always done this? why would it be any different now?
Oh, that’s right. They invented a new lower class charge to protect illegals from deportation.
Thank You for posting NobleFree.
Could happen - but there's no reason to think it could happen enough to offset the loss of market.
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