I'm a Coloradan and voting to legalize the shit was on the ballot the first time I voted when I was 18. Just like alcohol, I've seen it completely take over and ruin lives. Back then I agreed that it was stupid for it to be illegal when alcohol was not, but now I realize we just added to an existing problem, and quite frankly, I believe pot is worse. I know many functioning alcoholics with high paying jobs, but very few pot heads with significant or professional jobs with the exception of lawyers. Can't explain that. Amongst my generation, the biggest issue talked about is affording rent, however, nobody is ever out of weed, cigarettes, or booze while not affording rent. My friends are lazy, apply themselves as little as possible, depressed, and apathetic. They all work low skill low wage jobs and commonly get fired over drug tests. Like other comments have said, none of the money has been used the way it was promised when they convinced us to vote for this and all the good it would do. Colorado has become a pretty horrible place to live, tbh, and weed seems to have been right at the tipping point
I’m glad for this law, because weed being illegal while alcohol is, is just pure nonsense and VERY illogical. BUT that being said… it’s REALLY messed up some aspects of healthcare in states that aren’t legal.
Please allow me to explain, not just from my experience – but horrifically enough, many other disabled folks I have met have encountered the same situation. I live near a state where it’s recreationally legal – my state doesn’t even allow it medically. My entire life I’ve had severe chronic pain, and it was a struggle to get help AT ALL in the first place (as a disabled chick, let me tell you, the corruption in the healthcare industry is BONKERS). When I was visiting a doctor in my state, we were discussing something I could do to help my pain.
This DOCTOR instructed me to smuggle THC into the state. His finisher? “Just don’t get caught.”
If I DID “get caught”, I’d be charged with a felony, but hey, so long as it’s not their ass carted off to prison, right?
Doctors are backing out of prescribing LEGAL medications to those who need them (pain killers for Chronic Pain Patients (CPPs), barbiturates for PTSD/Anxiety, ADHD medications such as Adderall, Vyvanse, etc.) and are instructing them to do something that could land their patients behind bars. Mostly this is because of the DEA, breathing down the necks of doctors and putting a national limit on how many prescriptions of each medications are ALLOWED to be filled out (which, reminder – the DEA has ZERO medical professionals on staff and as such should have ZERO interference between a doctor and their patient!)
This a good start, but we have a lot of work to do to complete the puzzle and fix things up around here!
My biggest issue with cannabis is not its effect on the user. It is the impact on those around you. It has a more immediate impact than most other drugs even for sensible users if consumed as a vapour / smoked. I can choose to sit next to someone drinking coffee, alcohol, shooting up heroin and not be impacted by what they're doing. If however someone chooses to smoke or vape I end up getting second hand effects. The problem is with some, if its legal they don't care if you don't want to partake as it spoils their fun (this applies to smokers and vapers too).
Im 30 and born n raised in Humboldt county CA …i grew up very young age going to my friends house that ther parents grow tons of weed literally…we are marijuana outlaws our here since 1980s…we start smoking weed very young here and i first smoked with my white hippie friends family …the whole family smoked ..from Grandpa to great grandchild and i was 14 in 2008…humboldt county is the land of cannabis in all of the. world ….marijuana is more common than cigarettes or a bottle of water …eveyone has it…my point is humboldt county CA has been weed world since 1980s and it's been legal in humboldt since 1980s…we made colorado legal…we are colorados daddy we showed them how to grow weed and grow it good
Going to major tourist cities are atrocious now unless you're a pothead and/or enjoy getting a 2nd hand high. Absolutely horrible experience going on vacation anymore
10 years ago today, Colorado changed the world.
That was a horrible decision
I love drugs
This should have been made illegal, like tobacco or alcohol
I'm a Coloradan and voting to legalize the shit was on the ballot the first time I voted when I was 18. Just like alcohol, I've seen it completely take over and ruin lives. Back then I agreed that it was stupid for it to be illegal when alcohol was not, but now I realize we just added to an existing problem, and quite frankly, I believe pot is worse. I know many functioning alcoholics with high paying jobs, but very few pot heads with significant or professional jobs with the exception of lawyers. Can't explain that. Amongst my generation, the biggest issue talked about is affording rent, however, nobody is ever out of weed, cigarettes, or booze while not affording rent. My friends are lazy, apply themselves as little as possible, depressed, and apathetic. They all work low skill low wage jobs and commonly get fired over drug tests. Like other comments have said, none of the money has been used the way it was promised when they convinced us to vote for this and all the good it would do. Colorado has become a pretty horrible place to live, tbh, and weed seems to have been right at the tipping point
How can we make it stop smelling like shhh…?
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Still waiting on it to go federal. They will wait until most states go legal on their own. Thank your Republican friends for delaying this
Remember, it's mostly the conservatives/Republicans that are pushing back against legalization. That's why I'll be voting for Biden!
You forgot to mention that depression, unemployment, and poverty have also gone up.
420 ruined Colorado it’s impossible to live there thanks to every asshole moving in and jacking up rent prices. I had to move.
Leave it to Texas to still be behind the times.
You should stop telling lies on line
And somehow california managed to fumble one of the easiest to profit industries through taxes
Look at Cali now
I was today years old when I found out that marijuana and cannabis is the same thing
When Pennsylvania allowed the lottery, they said it benefitted seniors. My grandma kept asking how she was benefitting.🤦🏼♀️
I’m glad for this law, because weed being illegal while alcohol is, is just pure nonsense and VERY illogical. BUT that being said… it’s REALLY messed up some aspects of healthcare in states that aren’t legal.
Please allow me to explain, not just from my experience – but horrifically enough, many other disabled folks I have met have encountered the same situation. I live near a state where it’s recreationally legal – my state doesn’t even allow it medically. My entire life I’ve had severe chronic pain, and it was a struggle to get help AT ALL in the first place (as a disabled chick, let me tell you, the corruption in the healthcare industry is BONKERS). When I was visiting a doctor in my state, we were discussing something I could do to help my pain.
This DOCTOR instructed me to smuggle THC into the state. His finisher? “Just don’t get caught.”
If I DID “get caught”, I’d be charged with a felony, but hey, so long as it’s not their ass carted off to prison, right?
Doctors are backing out of prescribing LEGAL medications to those who need them (pain killers for Chronic Pain Patients (CPPs), barbiturates for PTSD/Anxiety, ADHD medications such as Adderall, Vyvanse, etc.) and are instructing them to do something that could land their patients behind bars. Mostly this is because of the DEA, breathing down the necks of doctors and putting a national limit on how many prescriptions of each medications are ALLOWED to be filled out (which, reminder – the DEA has ZERO medical professionals on staff and as such should have ZERO interference between a doctor and their patient!)
This a good start, but we have a lot of work to do to complete the puzzle and fix things up around here!
And our nation is so much more balanced, rational, and smarter. Right!
Cope
My biggest issue with cannabis is not its effect on the user. It is the impact on those around you.
It has a more immediate impact than most other drugs even for sensible users if consumed as a vapour / smoked.
I can choose to sit next to someone drinking coffee, alcohol, shooting up heroin and not be impacted by what they're doing. If however someone chooses to smoke or vape I end up getting second hand effects. The problem is with some, if its legal they don't care if you don't want to partake as it spoils their fun (this applies to smokers and vapers too).
Interesting, with the sigma still surrounding it feels like only two years 😂
And not one black dude r wording white women imagine that they lied to us
Im 30 and born n raised in Humboldt county CA …i grew up very young age going to my friends house that ther parents grow tons of weed literally…we are marijuana outlaws our here since 1980s…we start smoking weed very young here and i first smoked with my white hippie friends family …the whole family smoked ..from Grandpa to great grandchild and i was 14 in 2008…humboldt county is the land of cannabis in all of the. world ….marijuana is more common than cigarettes or a bottle of water …eveyone has it…my point is humboldt county CA has been weed world since 1980s and it's been legal in humboldt since 1980s…we made colorado legal…we are colorados daddy we showed them how to grow weed and grow it good
I would not pay one half cent for pot . Marijuana stinks and makes me want to throw up. 🌿🤮
I was there, a decacade ago, it was truly times of oppression 😔
Going to major tourist cities are atrocious now unless you're a pothead and/or enjoy getting a 2nd hand high. Absolutely horrible experience going on vacation anymore