Average increase of Fentanyl smuggling, then check again.
If Fentanyl smuggling increases 100% you can adjust your overall figure for Fentanyl then check.
California’s homeless percentage increase needs to be factored in too.
I gotta be honest.
I don’t know ONE pothead that does any other drugs that pot.
I mean what are you going for if you’re smoking pot?
Certainly not a coke or meth or heroin high.
You don’t NEED xanax or klonopin or valium
You’ll just ruin the buzz of THC by popping oxys, roxys, percs, tramadol and fent.
Only thing I can think is that kids who would have Never tried pot when it was illegal or using it now and then going on to something else.
Cause they ain’t potheads yet. Just experimenting
And if they’re told one of these drugs is legal now, well then why not try others?
It’s not the folks that were already ingesting loads of pot before it was legal. They’re just potheads.
The kids that came along after it was legal...i would bet it’s them moving on to other drugs.
Apples vs Potatoes
Legalized pot makes it more acceptable to get stoned and thus increases the legitimacy of other drugs that get people stoned. There is a certain percentage who aren’t going to be satisfied with the marijuana buzz and will want more.
In my experience over 30 years doing criminal defense, alcohol is a much more common gateway to harder drugs than marijuana is. Alcohol is easily the drug most commonly associated with criminal offenses.
While Missouri may have legalized medical use. It has not been implemented yet. Your methodology might need a rework.
Here is the simple fact on this subject boys and girls
Cannabis is non-toxic even in high high doses
There is no other entheogen on planet earth that can claim this other than lysergic acid diethylamide the 25th Isomer (lsd25)
Alcohol is toxic for every human being in the level 0.5%
Nicotine is extremely toxic - one drop will kill any adult human being on planet earth
It goes without saying that all of the opioids are extremely toxic
Uppers the amphetamines cocaine and all other stimulants are similarly toxic
Cannabis is a very very very special gift from God
The CBD products you see everywhere now are all derived from cannabis
Oh JOY! Yet ANOTHER pro WOsD thread with inconsistent data, stereotyping comments, ipso facto reasoning, fallacious arguments, third person tales of woe and nanny State control freaks posing as conservatives.
We live in a depressing culture filled with all kinds of horrible things. People are killing themselves in greater numbers, whether on purpose or not. The establishment is throwing pot to the masses in the hope that it will distract them from what has been done to our nation. It’s not surprising that people turn to weed and pills. We have been transformed into a population of obese drug addicts. Not to worry, we are getting a new population. At least we still have the Constitution.
Alcohol - the first gateway drug
“NOT MARIJUANA OVERDOSES”
Well because you cant?
Maybe you will eat yourself a mess of doritos. That isnt good for you for sure.
While it’s not the US, there are some stats from Portugal, which decriminalized all drugs.
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/then-now-portugals-drug-decriminalization
“States with Legal Marijuana See 25 Percent Fewer Prescription Painkiller Deaths” - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3197446/posts
This gives a longer term picture. Note that Mass was already among the worst states in 2016, the year it voted to legalize. Also note that CA had one of the lowest rates of OD deaths, as well as one of the lowest increases between 2010 and 2016.
And finally, CO, OR, AK and WA ranked among the lowest. While you can't say legal pot is responsible for the lower death rates, it is a real stretch to argue legal pot is responsible for higher death rates.
they’re too stoned to remember how many pills they took?