[Rebelbase]

The criminal lawyers must be panicked looking for new sources of income now that they've lost the marijuana business.

[Rebelbase]

In case anyone wants to know, excerpt is my friend.

[GeronL]

Pot parties for kids are popular now

[Wolfie]

The Prison Guard union must be pissed.

[Jim from C-Town]

The lawyers can now turn to what they do best extorting corporations. They can now file a class action suite against the Marijuana Industry with McDonald's and White Castle as co-defendants in a wrongful munchies law suite.

[fwdude]

Marijuana-related arrests, which make up 50% of all drug-related crimes, have plummeted in Colorado,...

So, because a former arrestable crime is no longer an arrestable crime is supposed to surprise anyone?

Why don't we legalize burglary to make the crime rates plummet even more?

[defconw]

Surrounding states are having a lot of fun! Cops are pulling over Colorado plates, just because! :)

[ilgipper]

I am somewhat indifferent on this issue, but more money for government is hardly a positive. More corruption and more pockets stuffed. Now, it’s sure to spread to other states to get funneled into more politicians bank accounts.

[Bucky14]

Maybe if they decriminalize bank robbery, murder and rape they will save even more money!

[pfflier]

Wherever the Huffington Post and Mother Jones are cited you might want to consider a reality check.

[gdani]

The criminal lawyers must be panicked looking for new sources of income now that they've lost the marijuana business.

Not as panicked as the police, judges & courts now that they can no longer inflate their budgets & salaries for ticky-tack marijuana offenses.

[Maceman]

Six Months After Legalizing Marijuana, Two Big Things Have Happened in Colorado

But nobody can remember what they are.

[rjsimmon]

$19 million in new tax revenue...the state saved somewhere between $12 million and $40 million in 2012,

I presume that property and income taxes will now go down???

[QualityMan]

the sales of girl scout cookies and bottled water skyrocketed?

[Proud2BeRight]

It will take more than six months for the addiction and gateway to other drugs affect to surface. By then it will be too late. However, there are deaths directly because of the dope and the increase in DUI from dope smoking dopes.

[Political Junkie Too]

I bet Doritos sales have soared, too.

-PJ

[AlaskaErik]

What about robberies, burglaries and thefts? I would imagine they're up.

[Carry_Okie]

They need to balance that $19 million in taxes and the savings derived from redirected law enforcement against the marginal cost of DUI (for example, they didn’t cite it) for the analysis to be credible. As it is, it looks single sided boosterism to me.

[RJS1950]

The real story about what has happened is that the CO pot sellers are suing to be exempt from taxes on their product so their activities can’t be used in any criminal trial. Problem is; one of the requirements of the law and one of the reasons it was passed is the TAXING of pot sales. The law was sold to the midget-brain lawmakers on the basis of high taxes flowing into their state coffers.

[oldbrowser]

With only a quarter of the year's data to work from, it may be too soon to definitively attribute these changes to marijuana legalization, but the possibility of a correlative pattern is certainly worth noting.

It is definitely too soon to be celebrating.

[bubbacluck]

I guess the infamous “sin tax” is now considered cool.