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Originally Posted by jnoob22
All that being said, I can understand in a way why the city council here is trying to push it out. They're old Air Force retirees and are just suspicious of it. And even bigger for them, they are afraid of losing business from the military since this town would be economically devastated if the Government decided to start moving installations to other less "pot-friendly" areas.
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Or, perhaps just maybe, they are talking to law enforcement and medical professionals who have a different view of the situation:
"In 2014 and 2015, nearly $6 million in pot revenues have been distributed to local governments. But the cost of increased law enforcement, drugged-driving incidents, fatal crashes, loss of productivity and a huge spike in gang-related crime bring into question the cost-benefit of those dollars.
Teen drug-related school expulsions are also on the rise. And the notion that prisons filled with minor drug offenders would be relieved of overcrowding—a selling point of legalizing marijuana—has been blown to smithereens.
Denver’s homeless population has exploded since Amendment 64 went into effect. And there are indications that finite tourist dollars are going more to pot and less to Colorado’s iconic natural wonders."
http://www.newsweek.com/unexpected-s...ng-weed-339931