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

Post by jws » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 4:02 PM UTC

danielweber wrote: post #21

binarymax wrote: post #6

The second point seems like it is a stretch. Of course, crime rate of illegal marijuana dropped when it was legalized. What I'd really like to see if related crime has dropped or increased - such as DUI, Theft, Assault, etc. --Edit-- Thanks all for pointing out the piece I skimmed over :) ...However I am still very curious to smaller offenses and misdemeanors. It will be years before we see good statistics, but those…

http://www.denvergov.org/Portals/720/documents/statistics/20... Crimes against persons: up about 24% Crimes against property: down about 10% Crimes against society: up about 23% which includes narcotics crimes up by 21% All other crimes: up over 150% No one should be trying to read data out of this noise, but if you are, it's not looking good for any legalization argument.

Post by r00fus » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 4:04 PM UTC

chipgap98 wrote: post #26

> This November, it's all but certain that D.C. will vote on a marijuana ballot measure and even pass it, setting up a battle with Congress to legalize. It will be interesting to see what happens with this vote. The marijuana debate is in a completely different place than it was 16 years ago when Congress blocked the counting of the votes for medical marijuana in D.C., but I could still see them interfering with the…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 4:04 PM UTC

ken_railey wrote: post #42

[deleted] wrote: post #13

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I'm sorry that someone close to you is dealing with that struggle, but I have two questions: 1) Do you think that your friend was at all dissuaded by current US drug policy? Of course this is impossible to know for sure, but I'm curious to hear your view. 2) Is having their door kicked through in the middle of the night by SWAT, and being sent to prison in any way advantageous to someone struggling with addiction?

Post by haswell » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 4:07 PM UTC

tolas wrote: post #38

akmiller wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not in Colorado but I saw one of the downsides the other day which is the manufacture of items like candy bars with multiple serving sizes of THC in the one bar. People aren't paying much attention to the serving sizes and there appears to be no restrictions in place yet on how much can be in a given food item. I'm in favor of legalization but there may need to be some more restrictions in place on how much THC c…

This is true. It takes responsibility on the users part and possibly more education on the sellers part. But certainly the same is true with alcohol, caffeine, etc. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/07/01/caf...

Post by adamors » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 4:10 PM UTC

danielweber wrote: post #15

The linked data shows 19 murders in the first five months of 2013, 11 murders in the same period in 2014. First, this is very noisy data to make any predictions from. (I guess it's a good thing to have so few murders that it's hard to make generalizations.) March 2014 alone had 5 murders compared to three last year. Second, this isn't a 52.9% drop, even if you exclude May, which makes the drop from 17 to 9. It's a 47…