Here’s what America would be like with legal pot

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signalmankenneth

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I believe before this decade is out, marijuana will be legal and decriminalized in most of the country! Been toking since 1968!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...es-what-america-would-be-like-with-legal-pot/
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signalmankenneth said:
I believe before this decade is out, marijuana will be legal and decriminalized in most of the country! Been toking since 1968!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...es-what-america-would-be-like-with-legal-pot/

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October '68, here!!
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THI$ is what'll make the difference!!!!

http://mjbizdaily.com/category/charts/


Hell.....in Colorado, presently (in the Denver Metro area....[which includes Boulder County]....anyhow), you're not allowed to sell what you grow (at home).....but, it's $TILL used as "currency".....like, for paying contractors who do work on your property; etc.​
 
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To better understand how legalization has affected driving, the AAA looked at crash data from 30-day periods between 2010 and 2014 that was collected from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission. Recreational marijuana was legalized in Washington in 2012.

The team found that prior to legalization, about 8.3 percent of drivers involved in fatal crashes had THC in their blood, but after legalization, 17 percent of drivers had THC in their blood. Of that 17 percent, about two-thirds also had some other drugs or alcohol in their system. The total number of fatal crashes also went up slightly, the study found.

http://www.livescience.com/54693-high-drivers-double-after-marijuana-legalization.html
 
Fatal road crashes involving marijuana double after state legalizes drug
Foundation research also shows that legal limits for marijuana and driving are meaningless

Date:
May 10, 2016
Source:
AAA
Summary:
Fatal crashes involving drivers who recently used marijuana doubled in Washington after the state legalized the drug, according to the latest research. New research also shows that legal limits for marijuana and driving are arbitrary and unsupported by science, which could result in unsafe motorists going free and others being wrongfully convicted for impaired driving.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160510103131.htm
 
Johnson was wrong when he claimed “marijuana-related” traffic deaths, hospital visits and school suspensions in Colorado have “not significantly” increased. All three have.
From 2009 to 2012, the “medical marijuana commercialization years,” the average yearly marijuana-related traffic deaths increased by 48 percent compared with the “early medical marijuana era” between 2006 and 2008. In the first two years after the recreational use of marijuana became legal (2013 to 2014), the average yearly marijuana-related traffic deaths increased by another 41 percent.

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/08/unpacking-pots-impact-in-colorado/
 
Road fatalities in Colorado have plummeted since marijuana was legalised

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Since Colorado voters legalised pot in 2012, prohibition supporters have warned that recreational marijuana will lead to a scourge of “drugged divers” on the state’s roads. They often point out that when the state legalized medical marijuana in 2001, there was a surge in drivers found to have smoked pot. They also point to studies showing that in other states that have legalized pot for medical purposes, we’ve seen an increase in the number of drivers testing positive for the drug who were involved in fatal car accidents. The anti-pot group SAM recently pointed out that even before the first legal pot store opened in Washington state, the number of drivers in that state testing positive for pot jumped by a third.

Since Colorado voters legalised pot in 2012, prohibition supporters have warned that recreational marijuana will lead to a scourge of “drugged divers” on the state’s roads. They often point out that when the state legalized medical marijuana in 2001, there was a surge in drivers found to have smoked pot. They also point to studies showing that in other states that have legalized pot for medical purposes, we’ve seen an increase in the number of drivers testing positive for the drug who were involved in fatal car accidents. The anti-pot group SAM recently pointed out that even before the first legal pot store opened in Washington state, the number of drivers in that state testing positive for pot jumped by a third.

The problem with these criticisms is that we can test only for the presence of marijuana metabolites, not for inebriation. Metabolites can linger in the body for days after the drug’s effects wear off — sometimes even for weeks. Because we all metabolize drugs differently (and at different times and under different conditions), all that a positive test tells us is that the driver has smoked pot at some point in the past few days or weeks.

It makes sense that loosening restrictions on pot would result in a higher percentage of drivers involved in fatal traffic accidents having smoked the drug at some point over the past few days or weeks. You’d also expect to find that a higher percentage of churchgoers, good Samaritans and soup kitchen volunteers would have pot in their system. You’d expect a similar result among any large sampling of people. This doesn’t necessarily mean that marijuana caused or was even a contributing factor to accidents, traffic violations or fatalities.
 
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Johnson was wrong when he claimed “marijuana-related” traffic deaths, hospital visits and school suspensions in Colorado have “not significantly” increased. All three have.
From 2009 to 2012, the “medical marijuana commercialization years,” the average yearly marijuana-related traffic deaths increased by 48 percent compared with the “early medical marijuana era” between 2006 and 2008. In the first two years after the recreational use of marijuana became legal (2013 to 2014), the average yearly marijuana-related traffic deaths increased by another 41 percent.

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/08/unpacking-pots-impact-in-colorado/
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Gee.....I guess you "missed" this part.....
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"But the limitations of the data make it impossible to know for sure how many of the documented incidents were directly caused by marijuana use. Unlike alcohol, for example, testing positive for marijuana doesn’t necessarily mean a person is under the influence of the drug at the time of the traffic accident."
 
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Great, just what we don't need. Everyone stoned out of their minds.
Leonthecat said:
Traffic fatalities in Colorado are way down since legalization. We do need it.
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Alcoholism was so serious a problem, a federal solution was sought: the 18th Amendment: "Prohibition".

Ethanol consumption was bad.
The Drug War against it ("Prohibition") was worse.
So they passed the 21st Amendment, and Prohibition ended.

There were drug problems, including marijuana problems before Drug War.
And we have them still.

BUT !!

Most of what I read about it says the drug problems are worse now.

If Drug War were a net benefit, we could continue this mass martial usurpation of the Creator endowed, Constitutionally enumerated, unalienable right of Liberty for perpetuity.

Yet it appears that would only do more harm.

How can it be that Drug War makes recreational drug use worse?

Fairly simple:
Drug War imposes EXTERNAL control.
Control is fine.

BUT !!

External control is seldom as effective as internal, or autonomous control.

The reason I don't drink too much Saturday night isn't because of any law (if there were a law against it).
The reason I don't drink too much on Saturday night is because I don't want a headache while in church Sunday morning.

Drug War is a martial usurpation of Liberty. Bad idea!

End Drug War now!
 
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