Posted on 04/24/2018 5:43:15 PM PDT by george76
The governor of Colorado does our nation a grave disservice by misleading the public about the impact of marijuana on his state in the April 9 interview in Rolling Stone magazine.
Neither the governor's statements, nor the smoke rising from 4/20 events, can hide the fact that drug use and addiction, especially among youths, are a growing public health concern in communities across Colorado and the nation.
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According to the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, Colorado is a national leader among 12-17-year-olds in:
(1) Last year marijuana use; (2) Last month marijuana use; and (3) The percentage of youths who tried marijuana for the first time.
A 2017 analysis by the Denver Post showed Colorado had experienced a 145 percent increase in the number of fatal crashes involving marijuana-impaired drivers between 2013 and 2016.
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Westword magazine reports that increased homelessness, drugs, and crime are causing local residents and convention visitors to shun Denver's 16th Street Mall, once one of the most vibrant tourist destinations in the region.
The interview in Rolling Stone is not the first time that Gov. John Hickenlooper has made misstatements about the impact of marijuana in Colorado.
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Most dispensaries in Colorado are in low-income neighborhoods, targeting young people who do not need another obstacle in fulfilling their great potential in life.
(Excerpt) Read more at gazette.com ...
Regardless, he is making plans. I have the information from a very reliable source.
Booze kills. It almost killed me.
Lets just keep weed illegal so the criminals and the criminal bankers can keep getting rich off it. It’s worked all this time, why change it now?
The end result of protecting people from their folly is to live in a world full of fools.
A very good question to which there is no answer today. There is still no exception to federal illegality that would allow researchers to look for answers to this and many other questions. Another one is nobody knows what the legal limit should be to drive after toking or even how to test for that limit, again because no research has been done. So, many of the assertions in this editorial are based on shaky data or guesses.
I'm even suspicious of the data on increased teen usage. It seems logical that people would be more honest about pot usage after legalization than before.
That said, I voted against the measure and don't use the stuff. But a clear majority in this state support it and I think it will eventually be legal nationwide. I hope so, because I'm really tired of the pot tourists.
I suppose it isn't such a bad thing to put police resources to use fighting more serious crimes.
“https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/colorado-s-teen-marijuana-usage-dips-after-legalization/
“This author is Cherry picking data.”
Big government lovers always do.
Ys, you shouldn’t be putting anything into your body that craps it up. That includes alcohol, and drugs including marijuana. And I don’t want to hear any moaning when all the potheads start coming down with lung cancer, COPD and other medical problems 20 years from now.
Pot has at least as many carcinogens as tobacco. People are being fed a line from Big Marijuana, which used to be Big Tobacco. You would think people would have learned. Marijuana is worse in the crap you are putting into your body than tobacco.
Does smoking pot cause cancer???
Yes. Lung cancer, emphysema, bronchitis and COPD.
The data matches the obvious. When Alcohol Prohibition ended, drinking related problems skyrocketed. If you outlaw tobacco, tobacco-related problems will plummet.
The question is whether you want to spend your resources stopping people from harming themselves. I smoked enough weed in college to know it impairs your driving and smoking anything is bad for you.
What is hurting Colorado is that people are still smoking black market dope. It’s legal to smoke it and it is cheaper than store dope.
You’re right on.
CO is actually doing pretty well in the revenue dept, which probably explaqins Hickenpooper’s conversion from opponent to supporter. In 2017, they collected $247,368,473 from mj taxes on $1,507,702,219 in sales.
https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/revenue/colorado-marijuana-tax-data
https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/revenue/colorado-marijuana-sales-reports
explaqins => explains
Evidence?
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