What increases? In what kinds of crime? In what parts of Colorado? As compared with crime rates in what other parts of the country?
An unsupported claim like that has no place in a reasonable discussion.
Regards,
“Since 2012, the year when Colorado voters passed recreational marijuana legalization, the number of crimes in Denver has grown by about 44 percent, according to annual figures the city reported to the National Incident Based Reporting System.”
The Denver Post is trying to explain it away:
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29527800/marijuana-legalization-unlikely-blame-denver-crime-increase
Alaska is noticing crime increases after legalization, too:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/violent_crime_rate_rises_in_aftermath_of_alaskas_medical_marijuana_legalization.html
Regards.
“More domestic pot means economic growth — jobs. It means fewer unlucky Americans will be incarcerated for a victimless crime tens of millions of other Americans have committed without penalty, including the last three presidents. And it means that the Mexican drug cartels are losing market share to non-violent American businesses.”
I think ou are smoking rose-colored-glasses pot. Hospital visits, some fairly violent episodes in robberies, pot growers, etc. are telling us a different story.
Having spent elenenty gazillion dollars being told that smoke is bad for you, now it’s OK. There is no reliable way to judge purity or strength of most marijuana and this isn’t the crap we smoked in the 60’s.
Every generation thinks they have made a big discovery with pot. Ironic, that the moderate to even heavy smoker of years ago no longer smokes. Just a personal anecdote. As for my other observations, my first experimentation was many, many years ago. I never thought it was a problem. But given the increase in potency (bound to ramp up in a legal market) and the potential for graft, more governmental oversight and bigger government for inspection etc., (what does the T in ATF stand for) I do not share your enthusiasm. I order a vodka made with a proof that I know, I know what will happen to me (more or less) but a bag of Eat Me First brownies doesn’t tell me anything, does it? And really, doesn’t wine always go well with pot? Unless you are stuffing your face with pickles, I guess.
“They believed that they can compensate for any effects of marijuana, for instance by driving more slowly or by allowing greater headways,” the GHSA report said. “They believed it is safer to drive after using marijuana than after drinking alcohol.”
That right there should worry anyone. Every alcoholic in history has used that same line.
This is a good article, I think, because it is even handed.