Weed is Good! (Denver, Aurora, Lakewood: rent, condos, hotels)

[The Homogenizer]

Originally Posted by davidv

Secondly, weed is easy to get now. By decriminalizing possession...

Adults will suffer less of Big Brother while children of bad parents will continue to do what children of bad parents always do.

[davebarnes]

Originally Posted by davidv

If you think that having more pot grown and sold in the area will NOT increase access, you are naive.

We need to improve access to dope "for the children".

[The Homogenizer]

Originally Posted by davebarnes

We need to improve access to dope "for the children".

That'd probably be a win-win for law enforcement. Law enforcement funds can be directed to stopping unlawful distributors, and the distributors will get extra time for targeting kids.

Jobs.

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by snofarmer

If the Govt wants to squash the new legalization they will withhold funds until the state falls into compliance.

Lol! The clock is ticking before the funds dry up in Washington, DC, thru default on our sovereign debt, and? What other threat will they be using?

Won't the additional tourist income and taxes cancel out the withholding of funds?

[davidv]

Originally Posted by tijlover

Lol! The clock is ticking before the funds dry up in Washington, DC, thru default on our sovereign debt, and? What other threat will they be using?

Won't the additional tourist income and taxes cancel out the withholding of funds?

Read my earlier post.

The taxes on pot that everyone thinks will be a great source of revenue won't materialize anytime soon. In Colorado new taxes must be approved by the voters, the legislature can't just impose them. When it comes time to vote on the tax, the new (legal) marijuana dealers will use their money to mount a campaign against the new taxes -- even though they sold us this by saying it would generate tax revenue. Every user out there will vote against the taxes because they won't want to pay higher prices (no pun intended), and the state will be stuck with no new revenue trying to mitigate the expenses of regulating the new industry.

As for tourism, I don't see people coming to Colorado just so they can smoke pot. They can't take it back with them on the plane (what an awesome plane ride that will be, sitting next to a bunch of people with the stench of weed on their clothes), they can't smoke in public (per the amendment), and no hotel is going to let them smoke up in the room.

[Eddyline]

Originally Posted by davidv

Read my earlier post.

The taxes on pot that everyone thinks will be a great source of revenue won't materialize anytime soon. In Colorado new taxes must be approved by the voters, the legislature can't just impose them. When it comes time to vote on the tax, the new (legal) marijuana dealers will use their money to mount a campaign against the new taxes -- even though they sold us this by saying it would generate tax revenue. Every user out there will vote against the taxes because they won't want to pay higher prices (no pun intended), and the state will be stuck with no new revenue trying to mitigate the expenses of regulating the new industry.

But didn't the Colorado voters approve the new tax as part of the amendment?
I thought that is what I voted for.

[El_Waiboi]

Originally Posted by Snikt

So we can't buy more than 3.2% alcohol beer in 98% of our grocery stores but we'll be able to buy pot now?

That weak beer is in CO? I thought it was Utah who did that

Either way, I'm very jealous that all you guys can smoke weed now, enjoy!

[NYorkFeinix]

Wai! this is just the beginning AZ will get it soon!

[Gunluvver2]

I grew up in Colorado but left when I graduated from High School. I still keep in touch though and it will be interesting to see what happens with legalized weed. I don't really care about smokin' dope but I would like to see HEMP as a major cash crop. The potential uses for HEMP are almost unlimited. Hopefully the major universities in Colorado (CU & CSU) will be researching new ways to use MJ.

GL2

[nele]

I heard Hickenlooper is slated to meet with Eric Holder to discuss how this will play out, in terms of what / whether the Feds will prosecute CO citizens and businesses. That strikes me as good common sense, as long as the real purpose of their meeting isn't for Hickenlooper to hatch a plan for NOT going through with the will of the people.

I haven't smoked pot for many decades and don't attend to start. And I'm no fan of recreational marijuana; I have observed it's use sap all ambition and drive out of a person. But I have seen tobacco and alcohol do much, much worse. --This is inevitable, folks. It's been coming for a long time. I'm pleased to be in one of the first forward-looking states where the people realize that. Makes me proud to be a Coloradan.