When Trump becomes president, he’s gonna ban pot and throw all these brain-damaged smokers and criminal dealers in jail.
And Coloradans are surprised by this........why?
Other than specific medical uses ( Charlotte's Web comes to mind for children with seizure disorders ) via prescription this whole Medical Marijuana experiment is not a slow road to hell but a fast one. What is worse is the other states wanting to sign up for this lunacy.
It is looking like we are Rome in it's last days...
President Obama says that marijuana and alcohol are the same.
Has anyone asked him what the AMA daily allowance is for marijuana?
Ah yes, Drug Warriors, fighting to keep their government jobs.
“Activists say it’s the way pot is marketed and sold that has started to create some serious problems.”
Yep...that’s it right there. Blame the advertising.
How much of the increase, in each case, was marijuana-related?
The study states that over 11 percent of Colorado’s 12 to 17 year-olds use pot — 56 percent higher than the national average.
What was the percentage two years ago, or five years ago?
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I do not favor recreational drug legalization, use, or advertising. I just get annoyed at the ignorant, or corrupt, parading of random statistics.
In a perfect world, of course we don’t want our kids to abuse pot.
But in the real world, this is a plant that a child can grow and you will NEVER stop it. I was in school when pot was unpopular and very illegal. Yet anyone was still able to buy it right in school after about the 7th grade.
Today I tutor high school kids and we are FAR from a legal state. Yet ALL of them can buy pot easier than beer. Right in the classroom.
You will NEVER stop people from growing a plant easier than basil that sells for it’s weight in gold. NEVER EVER.
The ONLY thing outlawing does is make the market unregulated and full of dirty/laced pot sold by criminals.
Personally, I’d rather have clean known pot available. Instead of my kids smoking moldy garbage sprayed with Chinese chemicals.
Right NOW in the ghettos, we have an epedemic of people smoking that fake pot. They smoke these leaves sprayed with research chemicals and damage themselves 1000 times more than pot ever will. Because this synthetic crap is made artificially cheaper than pot.
People are literally dying and having seizures on the streets due to our stupid pot laws!
Keep in mind that The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program (HIDTA) is a drug-prohibition enforcement program run by the United States Office of National Drug Control Policy.
It will get rid of the lowbrows that think it is cool to get stoned. Weed them out!!
Wow, who’da thunk anything bad would come from legalizing pot?!?
“Colorado Teens Smoking Less Pot Since Legalization” - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3190690/posts
“Six Months After Legalizing Marijuana, Two Big Things Have Happened in Colorado” - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3175168/posts: “According to government data, the Denver city- and county-wide murder rate has dropped 52.9% since recreational marijuana use was legalized [...] major property crimes are down 11.5% compared to the same period in 2013.”
Many links in post #1:
Kendal came home one evening to find his 13-year-old son unconscious from what he says was a marijuana overdose.He was gray. His heart wasn’t beating and he wasn’t breathing,” he said.
Kendal used CPR to resuscitate him
The report says “there was a 32 percent increase in marijuana-related traffic deaths” after legal recreational sales began in 2014 (emphasis in the original). Here is an interesting fact about “marijuana-related traffic deaths”: They do not necessarily have anything to do with marijuana. The report uses this phrase to describe fatalities from accidents involving vehicle operators who “tested positive for marijuana,” which could indicate the presence of inactive metabolites or THC levels so low that they had no impact on driving performance. A positive result does not mean a driver was impaired at the time of the crash, let alone that marijuana contributed to the accident.
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In 2014, the report says, “there was a 29 percent increase in the number of marijuana-related emergency room visits” and “a 38 percent increase in the number of marijuana-related hospitalizations.” Like “marijuana-related traffic deaths,” “marijuana-related emergency room visits” and “marijuana-related hospitalizations” are not necessarily marijuana-related. As the report explains, these numbers, also known as “marijuana mentions,” refer to patients whose marijuana use was determined by lab tests, self-reports, or “some other form of validation by the physician.” The fact that a patient had used marijuana at some point “does not necessarily prove marijuana was the cause of the emergency admission or hospitalization.”
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Although the number of marijuana-only calls rose 148 percent between 2012 and 2014, last year’s total, 151, still accounted for just 0.3 percent of the 50,000 or so calls that the poison control center received. The Colorado center does not report outcomes on its website. But according to data from the Washington Poison Center, just 3 percent of marijuana exposure cases involve a “major effect,” and there have been no fatalities.
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But there was a similar divergence between Colorado and the national average before2009. In fact, the rate of past-month use by Colorado teenagers rose by 34 percent between 2006 and 2009, more than three times the increase between 2009 and 2013, while the national average rose by about 4 percent. That hardly fits the story the RMHIDTA wants to tell, according to which greater availability of marijuana from dispensaries, beginning in 2009, resulted in more adolescent pot smoking.
https://reason.com/archives/2015/09/21/marijuana-legalization-disaster-or-catas
This is exactly what the pot sellers, and by extention, the government tax collectors want: Easy money at the expense of people who give up self control.