Colorado Amendment 64

AllTehBeers

Um.. Math?

Because the Average American household income is $40,000 and $70,000 dollars in households of four people or less over 1 year.

The cost to provide food, healthcare and basic comfort to a person in jail for one year is $40,000. This includes 3 meals, showers, clothing, healthcare, medications and opportunities like rehabilitation programs and tuition programs that are better than those offered to the poor working american.

That cost comes out of the Average American's pocket, many of whom can't afford those things for themselves.

Why keep nonviolent criminals in jail (free for them, expensive for us), when they could be working minimum wage jobs, paying taxes, and getting taxed for the pot use that would have landed them in jail in the first place?

Bingo.

People are going to drink, smoke, ****, gamble and do whatever else it is they do for relaxation/entertainment regardless of the 'legality' - prohibition didn't work either but taxing the booze sure gave the states a nice $$ boost - the same happens when you legalize and tax everything else.

Free up the police to go and fight REAL crimes..I have NEVER seen a violent pot-smoker..EVER. They are just happy to smoke, chill out and munch. For a nation to incarcerate so many of it's healthy young men for no reason is insane!

I know A LOT of people who smoke weed..They work in ALL kinds of professions..doctors, technicians, musicians, lawyers, IT people, stay at home parents and even a judge - So I can't really support the 'brain dead' theory. It's not like professional people are going to walk around telling everyone they smoke pot - well maybe more will now but in general..I don't think so.

I also am going to add that it's going to sold and monitored very strictly, just like alcohol. I'm sure there will be an age limit like 18 or 21.

kenazfehu

Paradoxically, I couldn't eat while high. I couldn't sit still either. A lot more got done around here!

(but now I associate getting high with my doberman dying and can barely think of it without crying)

P.S. - She did not die because of pot smoking; she was ill for a long time. It's just the painful memory I have of her during our last walk together.

AllTehBeers

Paradoxically, I couldn't eat while high. I couldn't sit still either. A lot more got done around here!

(but now I associate getting high with my doberman dying and can barely think of it without crying)

Me too. Except the doberman part. I don't enjoy getting high because I turn into a zombie, I can't function normally and I just don't like it.

Scott

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