Biden out against legalization of Marijuana

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154. In order to buy brownies and lollypops you must show a picture ID at Recreational stores. Not

once but twice. When you walk in, and when you purchase. No, brownies and Lollypops are NOT being sold to kids. That's complete bullshit. Marijuana is not LACED with highly addictive chemical combinations of THC and other drugs to increase the potency and dependency nature. That's also bullshit. You buy a natural plant that has no chemicals and certainly nothing is added. You can buy Marijuana that has a higher THC or a lower THC. With a medical card, I show my card and a picture ID twice. When I enter and when I pay.

The only thing right about the info you got from that link, is that this is 100% NOT your Grandma's Weed. The weed you buy is grown in a controled environment and all that is added are organic fertilizers. It is inspected and controlled.

This report — which also includes data on marijuana-related topics such as crime, hospitalizations and ER visits, usage rates and more — is the end product of a 2013 bill passed by the state legislature to study the impacts of marijuana legalization. Analysts gathered data from a range of sources, including the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the Colorado Hospital Association and the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center.

“This is exactly the kind of data collection we need to inform our regulatory and law enforcement framework,” Gov. John Hickenlooper said in a news release. “We now have that ever-critical baseline from which we can spot trends so Colorado’s leaders understand where our efforts are succeeding and identify areas where we need to focus additional research, resources or even new policy.”

Colorado has not experienced an increase in marijuana use among young people, although it was the single most common reason for school expulsions in the 2016-17 school year, the first year it was broken out as its own category.
Marijuana also has not impacted graduation rates or dropout rates in Colorado. Graduation rates have increased while dropout rates have decreased since 2012.

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/10/26/colorado-marijuana-impact-report/

From the PFD in the link

Driving

The number of drivers in fatal crashes who tested above the legal limit of THC, marijuana’s active ingredient, decreased to 35 in 2017, down from 52 in 2016.
The number of citations for marijuana-only impairment stayed steady between 2014 to 2017 at around 7 percent of all DUI arrests. That’s roughly 350 citations out of nearly 5,000 DUI arrests each year, the report said.

Arrests

Total marijuana arrests dropped by half during a five-year period, decreasing to 6,153 in 2017 from 12,709 in 2012.
Marijuana possession arrests — the majority of all marijuana-related arrests — were cut by more than half during the same period, dropping to 5,154 from 11,361.

https://cdpsdocs.state.co.us/ors/docs/reports/2018-SB13-283_Rpt.pdf