After 5 Months of Sales, Colorado Sees the Downside of a Legal High

sheskunk

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DENVER — Five months after Colorado became the first state to allow recreational marijuana sales, the battle over legalization is still raging.

Law enforcement officers in Colorado and neighboring states, emergency room doctors and legalization opponents increasingly are highlighting a series of recent problems as cautionary lessons for other states flirting with loosening marijuana laws.

There is the Denver man who, hours after buying a package of marijuana-infused Karma Kandy from one of Colorado’s new recreational marijuana shops, began raving about the end of the world and then pulled a handgun from the family safe and killed his wife, the authorities say. Some hospital officials say they are treating growing numbers of children and adults sickened by potent doses of edible marijuana. Sheriffs in neighboring states complain about stoned drivers streaming out of Colorado and through their towns.

“I think, by any measure, the experience of Colorado has not been a good one unless you’re in the marijuana business,” said Kevin A. Sabet, executive director of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, which opposes legalization. “We’ve seen lives damaged. We’ve seen deaths directly attributed to marijuana legalization. We’ve seen marijuana slipping through Colorado’s borders. We’ve seen marijuana getting into the hands of kids.”

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE =====> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/after-5-months-of-sales-colorado-sees-the-downside-of-a-legal-high.html?smid=fb-share


And you all are worried about Ebola. Your dope will kill you faster. Toke it on up.
 

Harrekin

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DENVER — Five months after Colorado became the first state to allow recreational marijuana sales, the battle over legalization is still raging.

Law enforcement officers in Colorado and neighboring states, emergency room doctors and legalization opponents increasingly are highlighting a series of recent problems as cautionary lessons for other states flirting with loosening marijuana laws.

There is the Denver man who, hours after buying a package of marijuana-infused Karma Kandy from one of Colorado’s new recreational marijuana shops, began raving about the end of the world and then pulled a handgun from the family safe and killed his wife, the authorities say. Some hospital officials say they are treating growing numbers of children and adults sickened by potent doses of edible marijuana. Sheriffs in neighboring states complain about stoned drivers streaming out of Colorado and through their towns.

“I think, by any measure, the experience of Colorado has not been a good one unless you’re in the marijuana business,” said Kevin A. Sabet, executive director of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, which opposes legalization. “We’ve seen lives damaged. We’ve seen deaths directly attributed to marijuana legalization. We’ve seen marijuana slipping through Colorado’s borders. We’ve seen marijuana getting into the hands of kids.”

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE =====> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/after-5-months-of-sales-colorado-sees-the-downside-of-a-legal-high.html?smid=fb-share


And you all are worried about Ebola. Your dope will kill you faster. Toke it on up.
If you want to get shitty about weed (and this thread is obvious troll bait, so you're not fooling me) then let's compare statistics where we compare deaths involving alcohol and deaths involving marijuana.

Tl;dr version: Booze is demonstrably orders of magnitude worse, no one talks about stopping adults willingly (a lot of the time eagerly) consuming that.

/thread (mutttttha-fukkkkkkah)
 

sheskunk

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Troll bait? It's the New York Times. Did you even read it?

So as long as there is something worse out there it is OK? It's ok to rob someone because people get murdered every day. Is that the defense you are going with?
 

pinkjackyle

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weed is about as benign as it gets .ill take weed over liquer & pills every time . the only person that died was wacked out to begin with then turned a gun on his wife then himself.
 
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NoDrama

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Wait, so every time some wacko kills his wife they are gonna blame it on weed now?

http://www.9news.com/story/news/crime/2014/04/17/richard-kirk-kris-kirk-murder/7832479/

Hey, don't forget to mention the prescription pain medication the guy took, just blame the candy.

the wife had been on the line with 911 operators for TWELVE MINUTES before she was shot in the head. Some time later the police showed up.
Apparently the 911 operator had no advice to give when the wife relayed that her husband was taking his gun out of the safe, operator told her to stay where she was, then BANG, dead.

And now you know why you don't listen to 911 operators, they have no authority and are stupid as fuck in some situations.
 

overgrowem

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DENVER — Five months after Colorado became the first state to allow recreational marijuana sales, the battle over legalization is still raging.

Law enforcement officers in Colorado and neighboring states, emergency room doctors and legalization opponents increasingly are highlighting a series of recent problems as cautionary lessons for other states flirting with loosening marijuana laws.

There is the Denver man who, hours after buying a package of marijuana-infused Karma Kandy from one of Colorado’s new recreational marijuana shops, began raving about the end of the world and then pulled a handgun from the family safe and killed his wife, the authorities say. Some hospital officials say they are treating growing numbers of children and adults sickened by potent doses of edible marijuana. Sheriffs in neighboring states complain about stoned drivers streaming out of Colorado and through their towns.

“I think, by any measure, the experience of Colorado has not been a good one unless you’re in the marijuana business,” said Kevin A. Sabet, executive director of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, which opposes legalization. “We’ve seen lives damaged. We’ve seen deaths directly attributed to marijuana legalization. We’ve seen marijuana slipping through Colorado’s borders. We’ve seen marijuana getting into the hands of kids.”

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE =====> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/after-5-months-of-sales-colorado-sees-the-downside-of-a-legal-high.html?smid=fb-share


And you all are worried about Ebola. Your dope will kill you faster. Toke it on up.
The article is on the level of a 6th grade Dare lecture.Your position based on this article isn't worth your ,my, or anyone else's time to debate. Comon sheskunk you can do better than this.
 

DeeTee

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Give me a break, I'm sure there will be many more of this crap in days to come, I don't buy it and never will, it's just propaganda as usual, and you bought into it.
 

sheskunk

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Yet there it is, in the New York Times. You people don't think there are people out there who believe this? People who will do what they can to put a stop to it. And all you're willing to do is call BS? Good Luck. Better hope the Republicans don't win.
 

bravedave

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If the rest of the troll story is anything like the provided it reads like they compiled opinions from unamed sources wrapped it around hearsay and jumped wildly to the conclusion they so badly desired. Not surprised that this is the NYT
 
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