They expected pot sales to bring the state 70 million dollars in taxes. In actuality it only brought in 44 million. About a 30% miss. Perhaps it just goes to show legalizing illicit drugs isn't a good idea. They would make more money keeping it illegal and fining people or putting them in jail for a few days. The people smoking it were so tweaked out they thought it was going so good they were going to get money back on there taxes from it.
They expected pot sales to bring the state 70 million dollars in taxes. In actuality it only brought in 44 million. About a 30% miss. Perhaps it just goes to show legalizing illicit drugs isn't a good idea. You're right. Not a good idea. CO only brought in 44 million in their first year. That's great reasoning. They would make more money keeping it illegal and fining people or putting them in jail for a few days. Great number crunching. Just curious how you arrived at that conclusion. And another brilliant reason to keep it illegal. Let's continue to jail people, separate them from their families, make it harder for them to make a living, and punish them for a life style that entails using a drug safer than alcohol. Let's continue wasting taxpayers' funds to stop the use of a plant that makes people happy, treats dozens of ailments, and is not associated with a single disease or side effect. The people smoking it were so tweaked out they thought it was going so good they were going to get money back on there (their) taxes from it. Tweaked out? Have you ever smoked weed? Do you have any idea as to what you're talking about?
https://seattle.cbslocal.com/2014/02/04/study-fatal-car-crashes-involving-marijuana-have-tripled/
What you saying is completely not true and not backed by any facts. Read this article from cbs you are just blowing air out of the wind. “Currently, one of nine drivers involved in fatal crashes would test positive for marijuana,” Dr. Guohua Li, director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at Columbia, and co-author of the study told HealthDay News.
Researchers from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health gathered data from six states – California, Hawaii, Illinois, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and West Virginia – that perform toxicology tests on drivers involved in fatal car accidents. This data included over 23,500 drivers that died within one hour of a crash between. The researchers found that drugs played an increasing role in fatal traffic accidents. Drugged driving accounted for more than 28 percent of traffic deaths .
“If a driver is under the influence of alcohol, their risk of a fatal crash is 13 times higher than the risk of the driver who is not under the influence of alcohol,” Li said. “But if the driver is under the influence of both alcohol and marijuana, their risk increased to 24 times that of a sober person.”
You are extremely uneducated.
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