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Six Months After Legalizing Marijuana, Two Big Things have Happened in Colorado

posted by azrael on Friday July 04 2014, @04:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the tax-not-war dept.

Monogamous Coward writes:

It's now been six months since Colorado enacted its historic marijuana legalization policy, and two big things have already happened:

  1. Colorado's cash crop is turning out to be even more profitable than the state could have hoped.

    Tax revenue from marijuana sales is expected to top $130M over the next fiscal year.

  2. Denver crime rates have suddenly fallen.

    The Denver city- and county-wide murder rate has dropped 52.9% year-to-year since recreational marijuana use was legalized in January.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 04 2014, @08:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 04 2014, @08:55PM (#64313)

    By considering all the various programs currently undertaken by states as integral parts of the only viable form of statehood, and opposing that form to raw anarchy, you exclude the middle, the myriad forms of scaled back government that leave more to individuals and non-governmental organizations to accomplish and consequently incur less debt (taxes aren't really as big as borrowing in modern states anyway). Defense could be left to militias, welfare to charity, and retirement to families, whose young once carec for their elders and expected to be cared for by their children in turn. The marble steps of glittering capitols and the power of the sword and dole to compel citizens are not necessary components of a state. Ask the Athenians, who had no standing army, no public welfare except jury pay, and plenty of Democracy.