Seriously curious.
Anyone changed their minds on this over the past year or two?
Seems like Colorado is having some issues.
Anyone changed their minds on this over the past year or two?
Seems like Colorado is having some issues.
Legalized Pot
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What kind of issues? Last time I was out there it seemed like there were more dispensaries than gas stations.
No, I’ve not changed my mind on this. I’m still AGAINST the legalization for recreational use. Medical I’m fine with.
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I'm currently in Colorado Springs and it is medical only here or drive 15 min to Manitou Springs, but they are everywhere. Have not seen any issues.
You didn’t have to make that known. Everyone just assumed it since you have Grateful Dead logo as you avatar.
No issues here, that's a false narrative. Tax money for schools, I guess that's a bad thing.
https://coloradosun.com/2019/06/12/where-does-colorados-marijuana-tax-money-go/
No issues with homelessness, heroine, etc?
Rent going up in places?
https://denverite.com/2017/04/06/colorado-reports-2000-percent-spike-heroin-confiscations/
Rent going up in places?
https://denverite.com/2017/04/06/colorado-reports-2000-percent-spike-heroin-confiscations/
Haha you trying to link marijuana to the opioid/heroin crisis is some of the finest pearl clutching I’ve ever seen. Well done.
Tell us your opinion on rock music and devil worshipping.
Tell us your opinion on rock music and devil worshipping.
That has nothing to do with legal weed, the opioid crisis is nationwide and fueled by the cartel from Mexico.
Rent is and has been going up due the the great job market and lack of available housing.
Denver is a large city and has big city problems like homelessness, at not near as bad as Seattle or Portland.
Medicinal should 100% be legal. There's too much evidence that supports the health benefits for those who need it. Only issue I see for recreational use is the traffic accidents. States that have legalized it saw in uptick in number of traffic accidents and fatal traffic accidents. There's not a real way to test for whether a driver is high or not other than police discretion.
Did you even read the article you posted?
The rise in heroin is strongly tied to the increase in opioid prescription/abuse. This rise in heroin use has been steady since 2011, nation-wide.
The rise in heroin is strongly tied to the increase in opioid prescription/abuse. This rise in heroin use has been steady since 2011, nation-wide.
https://www.clarionledger.com/story...marijuana-mississippi-2020-ballot/2848988001/ Well, Medical Marijuana will be on the ballot in 2020, I think it will pass shockingly.
I simply asking a question Bc it’s being discussed in
Mississippi again.
I have an uncle who is from Mississippi and retired US Customs agent.
He has a cabin in Colorado.
Seems to think the cartels flooded the Colorado market with cheap heroine Bc of lost revenue in marijuana.
Legitimately just looking for feedback.
Mississippi again.
I have an uncle who is from Mississippi and retired US Customs agent.
He has a cabin in Colorado.
Seems to think the cartels flooded the Colorado market with cheap heroine Bc of lost revenue in marijuana.
Legitimately just looking for feedback.
In this same thread a user with a widespead panic lyric as a user name says he is against recreational pot, so I'm not sure that would have been a safe assumption.
All I know is that there is a chance for MS to move itself forward by multiple steps at once.
We won't do it though.
We won't do it though.
One of the major reasons the U.S. has seen an uptick in heroin use over the last decade is due to prescription opioid manufacturers, distributors, dispensers, and prescribers finally closing what until recently was an open spigot. An addict's body does not know the difference between an Oxycontin from Purdue and a baggie of H (generally - there are issues with purity). So when your Rx opioid resource dries up (or becomes prohibitively expensive), switching to heroin is a logical path. The demand for the illegal version therefore increases.
If you had the health issues I've got, you'd be in favor. And I was never a user growing up. Thought it was the devil's lettuce. It helps me tremendously. It should absolutely be legal.
If pot is the reason heroin is increasing in Colorado, what’s the reason the heroin epidemic is increasing in MS and surrounding states?
That’s a bad take. People addicted to opiates aren’t going to switch to mj because it’s legal but then switch back to heroine because now it’s half off. Think that one out loud, it’s asinine. Cartels have gotten in to meth and fentanyl to adapt the the changing market for mj in the US.
My feedback:
Full legalization is a no brainer. You’d have to be brain damaged to not support medical. There isn’t a good argument out there when you consider what’s already legal and what’s prescribed.
My feedback:
Full legalization is a no brainer. You’d have to be brain damaged to not support medical. There isn’t a good argument out there when you consider what’s already legal and what’s prescribed.
If the cartels are shipping in heroin because weed is now legal, then we need to make broccoli illegal. They'll want to corner that market.
"Hey man, have you tried it with CHEESE on it?"
"What the? They cut this **** with cauliflower!"
"Hey man, have you tried it with CHEESE on it?"
"What the? They cut this **** with cauliflower!"
This is a good article of pros and cons. Don’t agree with all the cons but there is evidence that traffic issues increase.
https://marijuana.procon.org/
https://marijuana.procon.org/
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I feel bad for people who aren’t smart enough to see the benefits of pot. Who are blinded by what they’ve been told their entire sheltered life. Pot is awesome.
You came here looking for a serious discussion. I ask a legitimate question. It’s hard to take you serious if these are the responses you’re giving. Basically your mind is made up and nothing will come from this thread other than page after page of arguing and name calling until it’s locked.
Only problem CO had is a surplus of money
Seriously...they're having to give it back to residents.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...esidents-over-excess-marijuana-revenue-95751/
Think binge drinking in colleges is down too. Too lazy to find that article.
Seriously...they're having to give it back to residents.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...esidents-over-excess-marijuana-revenue-95751/
Think binge drinking in colleges is down too. Too lazy to find that article.
So I should ignore the advice of
Dr. Bertha K. Madras - a professor of psychobiology in the Department of Psychiatry and the chair of the Division of Neurochemistry at Harvard Medical School Harvard University.
"It is the most self-delusional drug of all,” said Madras. “People are not aware of what's happening to them as they use heavily, as they use more and more, as it erodes their sense of wellbeing.”
Dr. Bertha K. Madras - a professor of psychobiology in the Department of Psychiatry and the chair of the Division of Neurochemistry at Harvard Medical School Harvard University.
"It is the most self-delusional drug of all,” said Madras. “People are not aware of what's happening to them as they use heavily, as they use more and more, as it erodes their sense of wellbeing.”
Make it legal, period. Law enforcement these days are like deputies of yesteryear trying to run down moonshiners and bootleggers. It is crazy. They should be spending time on things that matter.