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Lagg [lagg.me] writes:

Not even 8 months after my home state voted against recreational legalization in part due to meddling and hack science [washingtonpost.com]. Colorado has reported that since the beginning of the year they have made $620 million in sales with $95 million of it going to the state [forbes.com].

Meanwhile, Jeff Sessions continues insisting that marijuana will be the fall of society [entrepreneur.com].

Submitter note: I lived in Denver's Capitol Hill area for a period of 8 months between December 2015 and October 2016. In this time the amount of homeless exhibiting obvious schizophrenic symptoms exacerbated by alcohol increased to an absurd level - to the point where I had to flash my knife because I wouldn't walk into mcdonalds and buy them food and they started trying to navigate behind me. They are not trusted and mistreated by people for this reason.

Bars outnumber the fun places on broadway 3:1. This is also a college town and drinking is just as if not more popular than weed. They put homeless guys to work on the street advertising day labor jobs. While there are armchair activists across the street advertising greenpeace spam subscriptions. It's not a place conducive to healthy thinking as much as it pretends to be and this systemic neglect is probably one of the real factors behind the 44% increase of crime. Not to mention that drug abuse (including alcohol) wrecks havoc on schizophrenic patients.

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