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Five years later, Colorado sees toll of pot legalization
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:18 am
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:18 am
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Last week marked the fifth anniversary of Colorado's decision to sanction the world's first anything-goes commercial pot trade.
Five years later, we remain an embarrassing cautionary tale.
Visitors to Colorado remark about a new agricultural smell, the wafting odor of pot as they drive near warehouse grow operations along Denver freeways. Residential neighborhoods throughout Colorado Springs reek of marijuana, as producers fill rental homes with plants.
Five years of retail pot coincide with five years of a homelessness growth rate that ranks among the highest rates in the country.
This post was edited on 2/12/18 at 11:21 am
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Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:20 am to hawgfaninc
This wont go well for you
Most OTers think there are no consequences whatsoever to legalization. Pot is the solution to pretty much every problem.
Most OTers think there are no consequences whatsoever to legalization. Pot is the solution to pretty much every problem.
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:20 am to hawgfaninc
This doesn't even go into the human toll, increased crime, illiteracy, teen pregnancy etc
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:21 am to hawgfaninc
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doubling in the number of drivers involved in fatal crashes who tested positive for marijuana
It stays in your system for weeks. I would expect the number to be higher, that doesn’t mean that they were high when they wrecked. It just means they’ve used in the last couple weeks. Since it’s legalized of course that number goes up.
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:22 am to hawgfaninc
If anyone thought anything differently would happen, they are smoking the lettuce.
Drugs are bad that's just the way it is.
Drugs are bad that's just the way it is.
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:23 am to hawgfaninc
Conservatives looking for every angle I see.
TIL pot causes homelessness
TIL pot causes homelessness
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:23 am to hawgfaninc
I was waiting for this to turn into a satire at some point.
I think phrases like "the state is now the #1 offender of marijuana users" is pretty ironic considering that it's now legal there. Of course more people are partaking now that it's a perfectly legal activity.
I'd be really interested to see the same study with the same parameters done on alcohol. If they're this surprised that teens are smoking, how surprised will they be when they find out probably just as many if not more are underage drinking.
I think phrases like "the state is now the #1 offender of marijuana users" is pretty ironic considering that it's now legal there. Of course more people are partaking now that it's a perfectly legal activity.
I'd be really interested to see the same study with the same parameters done on alcohol. If they're this surprised that teens are smoking, how surprised will they be when they find out probably just as many if not more are underage drinking.
This post was edited on 2/12/18 at 11:25 am
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:23 am to hawgfaninc
Oklahoma sucks.
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:23 am to hawgfaninc
Sweet opinion article some old dude wrote after yelling at kids to get off his lawn with barely any facts 
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:25 am to hawgfaninc
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Five years of retail pot coincide with five years of a homelessness growth rate that ranks among the highest rates in the country. Directors of homeless shelters, and people who live on the streets, tell us homeless substance abusers migrate here for easy access to pot.
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Five years of Big Marijuana ushered in a doubling in the number of drivers involved in fatal crashes who tested positive for marijuana, based on research by the pro-legalization Denver Post.
Shocker.
But drug addicts want their drugs damn it.
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:26 am to hawgfaninc
For the sake of our market I hope no adjoining states ever legalize marijuana. $1.5 billion was sold in Colorado last year. 
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:26 am to hawgfaninc
So you linked an opinion piece? Sounds about right.
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:27 am to hawgfaninc
I still support the freedom to smoke a plant if you choose. If it impacts your life than that's on you. We don't need a big government nanny state.
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:27 am to hawgfaninc
Most of those "problems" are a result of being the only state where it's legal (for some of the five years) and then one of just a few.
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:27 am to hawgfaninc
Do companies in Colorado still drug test their workers even though it’s legal now?
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:27 am to hawgfaninc
Marijuana smells lovely. How is that a problem?
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:27 am to hawgfaninc
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Visitors to Colorado remark about a new agricultural smell, the wafting odor of pot as they drive near warehouse grow operations along Denver freeways. Residential neighborhoods throughout Colorado Springs reek of marijuana, as producers fill rental homes with plants.
None of this is true. OK media just trying to make CO look bad because they don't like weed being legal so close to their border.
Here's the real story....
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DENVER — The Colorado Department of Revenue says marijuana shops in the state made a record $1.51 billion in sales of medical and recreational cannabis, edibles and concentrate products in 2017.
Data released Friday say adult-use sales topped $1.09 billion during the year, with the remaining $416.52 million coming from medical marijuana.
Data say the state collected upward of $247 million in taxes and fees revenue from marijuana sales.
The previous record was in 2016, when marijuana shops did $1.3 billion in sales. Sales were $996 million in 2015.
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Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:28 am to hawgfaninc
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Five years of retail pot coincide with five years of a homelessness growth rate that ranks among the highest rates in the country.
Amazingly stupid point.
Are they suggesting pot causes homelessness
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:30 am to hawgfaninc
Potheads are as trashy as they come. No surprises here.
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:31 am to hawgfaninc
I have O&G clients that are having a hard time finding industrial real estate in Denver and surrounding areas because the pot growers are driving up prices
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