Nevada launches sales of legal recreational marijuana

http://nypost.com/2017/07/01/nevada-launches-sales-of-legal-recreational-marijuana/

In yet another win for personal liberty nevada has finally recognized the right to ones own body. Im sure the chicken little types will be in here soon enough bemoaning this decision and crying out how the future is lost and society will collapse. But science and reality just arent on their side.

Heres hoping all 50 do this within the next decade.

 

This new report paints an even bleaker picture of what is happening in Colorado since it legalized the possession, sale, and consumption of marijuana.

According to the new report by the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area entitled “The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact,” the impact of legalized marijuana in Colorado has resulted in:


1. The majority of DUI drug arrests involve marijuana and 25 to 40 percent were marijuana alone.

2. In 2012, 10.47 percent of Colorado youth ages 12 to 17 were considered current marijuana users compared to 7.55 percent nationally. Colorado ranked fourth in the nation, and was 39 percent higher than the national average.

3. Drug-related student suspensions/expulsions increased 32 percent from school years 2008-09 through 2012-13, the vast majority were for marijuana violations.

4. In 2012, 26.81 percent of college age students were considered current marijuana users compared to 18.89 percent nationally, which ranks Colorado third in the nation and 42 percent above the national average.

5. In 2013, 48.4 percent of Denver adult arrestees tested positive for marijuana, which is a 16 percent increase from 2008.

6. From 2011 through 2013 there was a 57 percent increase in marijuana-related emergency room visits.

7. Hospitalizations related to marijuana has increased 82 percent since 2008.

Science. Reality. On my side. Not yours.

http://dailysignal.com/2014/08/20/7-harmful-side-effects-pot-legalization-caused-colorado/

 

Marijuana sales boosts Colorado’s economy
CNBC’s Harry Smith joins The Cycle to talk about how legalizing marijuana has boosted Colorado’s economy and produced surprising results about marijuana use among teens
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Despite these divisions, however, a majority of Colorado voters (51 percent) would oppose any plan to repeal marijuana legalization. Only 36 percent would support such a measure.
Most Colorado voters say legal weed has been good for the ...

 

Freedom isn't always pretty. Just look at the situation with guns. There will always be people who act irresponsibly no matter the law.

 

Marijuana sales boosts Colorado’s economy
CNBC’s Harry Smith joins The Cycle to talk about how legalizing marijuana has boosted Colorado’s economy and produced surprising results about marijuana use among teens
Marijuana sales boosts Colorado's economy | MSNBC

 

And? college and highschool students have used pot since forever, it's only now that more of them arent afraid to come out about it.

Marijuana related could mean anything, you could of smoked 3 weeks ago and if your involved in an accident, arrest or hospitlization and they find it in your system they count it as related. more inflated statistics

 

Exactly right.

 

So screw the kids when we can make more money? What a shocker you defended that.

Why aren't you trying to legalize all drugs PeppermintTwist?

 

Psst. College kids are not 12 to 17. Try actually reading what I quoted.

 

Well you also leave out, alcohol, tobacco, and prescription drugs, that all have led to deaths, by the thousands, and yet you don't seem to want to abolish those drugs. Marijuana, has its drawbacks, but death by overdose, can be counted on hand.

 

Noone advocating for legalization wants children getting their hands on it, Why you prohibitionist types keep beating that drum i never know.

Of course a black market is still going to exist for the under 21 crowd, no idea why you think thats anything new at all. Fact is kids in highschool can get their hands on a myriad of drugs from pills to marijuana or even heroin. It's an issue that goes so far beyond just legalized pot.

 

I think its great! Only problem is, "IF" you're piss tested and it's company policy that THC is prohibited then what's the point? It needs to be addressed at the federal level otherwise is just an easy to get drug for people that pretty much lick envelopes at home for a living!

 

Uh, your science is bunkum, and since you wanted some confirmation bias, to use it as propaganda to support your beliefs, of course you used something you made sure you never researched. LOL Here is one of others who take on this biased study. Which of course the purveyors of opiates, alcohol, legal representation in court, and the private prison industry loved, just to name a few special interests who demand to dictate what human beings can consume.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobs...-against-marijuana-legalization/#4146474b2245

I have watched this war of special interests against pot since the mid 70s. But I have also looked at the others who present much more honesty and integrity when it comes to pot. Pot wins, for the benefits far outweigh the costs, PLUS, there is the question of who owns my body, me or you. I know you demand to own the bodies of others, for this is just how some people are. And then you try to justify it with rubbish, balderdash and bunkum.

I do not use pot, but did smoke it for 40 years, while being a very successful business owner, allowing me to retire at age 55 with no need to work again. And the world is filled with good, honest, hard working people who use pot and who have never been in an accident while under the influence. It is nothing like booze when it comes to driving or operating machinery and the people who actually have used it, know this, although they would never convince others like yourself who are so slanted gravity makes you bust your arse perpetually.

I have been cured of cancer by the use of Phoenix Tears, an extract, which is consumed on a regime. After I refused chemo and radiation with a prognosis of death. I also cured two spots of skin cancer by topically applying the same cannabis oil, an extract of the Indica strain. This was after I had stopped smoking the herb, God's gift to humanity, and the safest drug ever to exist. People like you keep others from cancer cures, for some immoral people want to see others punished for exercising the most basic god given right of them all. The right to have sovereignty over ones body and consciousness, instead of you having sovereignty over others. You sir, are much more dangerous than Pot could ever be. And you ought to be ashamed of yourself for being so myopic and irrationally biased against a plant which benefits so many people.

I hope to live to see the day when this miracle plant is legal in all 50 states, as the enlightened kick people who believe as you do to the curb. For the benefits far outweigh the costs, even if those special interests who benefit greatly from it being illegal lie and try to say differently.

Lives have been ruined because of the demand of some people to own the bodies of others. It is only true ignorance that allows such people to exist as they continue in their fake studies, and as Big Pharma and the alcohol industries finance anti legalization in their own greedy self interests.

 

I think if we used the anti pot people's mode of thinking, we should just kill all of the kids, so they can never use Pot. Their obsession with having sovereignty over others is surely some form of mental illness. I suggest putting them on Phoenix Tears to heal their mental illness.

 

I hear many establishment conservatives know that smoking or vaping pot cures conservatism and it has them shaking in their boots at what would happen if legal in all 50 states.

 

I live in Nevada and it has been legal for awhile. There is a dispensary around the corner from my house. Reno has several
dispensaries that will cater to your desires. I think that Nevada has simply refreshed it's rules of engagement. Enjoy!!

 

Too bad that right isn't conferred at conception.

Las Vegas is already a shithole. This won't make it much worse.

Open invitation to all the potheads out there: What percentage of the population can America have on the wake and bake plan and still function at current status? No doper ever answers this line of questions honestly.

 

No two people are ever the same, some can function with a daily habit and some were just lazy deadbeats to begin with.

Is that honest enough for you?

 

What percentage?

See, I've been here before. The dopers never play straight.

 

I'll probably piss off some people I normally agree with but this should be a state issue. But the DEA/FDA needs declassify MJ from it's scheduled controlled substances rating because currently it's a clusterfuck that clashes with state law.

 

The percentage is probably higher than the ones that wake and drink or take prescription opiod drugs.

 

Another doper that can't answer a simple question.

 

Wrong, don't smoke. I answered your question, whatever that percentage is, I am sure the ones that drink and do prescripiton opiod drugs are far less useful.

I noticed you don't have answer yourself.

 

And YOU answered. And badly, like all the other potheads.

 

This just means that a lot more dope will be flowing from Mexico into California and Arizona to get to Nevada now.