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    Five years later, Colorado sees toll of pot legalization

    Five years later, Colorado sees toll of pot legalization
    Tuesday, November 14, 2017
    Colorado Springs Gazette Opinion

    Last week marked the fifth anniversary of Colorado's decision to sanction the world's first anything-goes commercial pot trade.

    Five years later, we remain an embarrassing cautionary tale.

    Visitors to Colorado remark about a new agricultural smell, the wafting odor of pot as they drive near warehouse grow operations along Denver freeways. Residential neighborhoods throughout Colorado Springs reek of marijuana, as producers fill rental homes with plants.

    Five years of retail pot coincide with five years of a homelessness growth rate that ranks among the highest rates in the country. Directors of homeless shelters, and people who live on the streets, tell us homeless substance abusers migrate here for easy access to pot.

    Five years of Big Marijuana ushered in a doubling in the number of drivers involved in fatal crashes ...


    http://www.oklahoman.com/article/557...082980c3da7fef

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    Good article. My state is considering legalization, so I am interested to know about the experiences of states that have already done so.

    Here's a graph of Colorado traffic fatalities since 2002: https://www.codot.gov/library/traffi...ies_Graphs.pdf

    The graph shows a substantial increase in fatalities in 2015 and 2016; however, the total number of miles driven in those years also increased substantially. And, the fatalities in 2015 and 2016 were much lower than in 2002. So I'm not sure what to make of this data, but I will continue to investigate.

    Thanks again for the article.

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    Quote Originally Posted by njtom View Post
    Good article. My state is considering legalization, so I am interested to know about the experiences of states that have already done so.

    Here's a graph of Colorado traffic fatalities since 2002: https://www.codot.gov/library/traffi...ies_Graphs.pdf

    The graph shows a substantial increase in fatalities in 2015 and 2016; however, the total number of miles driven in those years also increased substantially. And, the fatalities in 2015 and 2016 were much lower than in 2002. So I'm not sure what to make of this data, but I will continue to investigate.

    Thanks again for the article.
    That looks like what is called "statistically insignificant", meaning it doesn't really say anything.
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    Legal marijuana is saving lives in Colorado, study finds

    Marijuana legalization in Colorado led to a “reversal” of opiate overdose deaths in that state, according to new research published in the American Journal of Public Health.

    “After Colorado’s legalization of recreational cannabis sale and use, opioid-related deaths decreased more than 6% in the following 2 years,” write authors Melvin D. Livingston, Tracey E. Barnett, Chris Delcher and Alexander C. Wagenaar.
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    In the OP an attempt was made to correlate pot legalization with homelessness...I don't think so.

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    I read several months ago that one popular tourist town was inundated with out of state, out of work potheads. The town was not happy about it.

    It was long enough ago I don't remember the source, though it probably would have been Fox or Cnn as that is where I look at the national news.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    In the OP an attempt was made to correlate pot legalization with homelessness...I don't think so.
    I read it as the homeless migrated to CO because of the easy access to pot, not that pot causes the homelessness. That's totally plausible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    I read it as the homeless migrated to CO because of the easy access to pot, not that pot causes the homelessness. That's totally plausible.
    That does sound maybe more plausible. I find it funny that people who claim the moral high ground in regards to the mj thing have no problem whatsoever lying through their teeth. I'd rather hang out with a pot head than a pathological liar..

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    In the OP an attempt was made to correlate pot legalization with homelessness...I don't think so.
    But there might be a correlation between pot legalization and adults refusing to leave their parent's basements.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan View Post
    But there might be a correlation between pot legalization and adults refusing to leave their parent's basements.
    Cause-effect is going a bit far but the correlation may well be one that exists also outside the realm of statistical analysis.

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