re: Five years later, Colorado sees toll of pot legalization

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Which doesn't make sense, as Nevada, California, and Oregon have higher rates of homelessness, despite it still being recently legal in Nevada, recently legal in California, and legal since 2014 in Oregon. I won't deny that homeless might migrate to Denver because metropolitan areas might have more services available to the homeless, but suggesting marijuana as solely a cause for that homelessness is an odd suggestion

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Complete agree.

I bet if you plot housing costs and cost of living vs # of homeless in Denver, you'd see a pretty damn strong correlation. SF would show a similar spike in the homeless numbers before weed being legalized there too.