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You should be more concerned about the drivers around you who are using cell phones when you're in your car. Not everybody smokes pot. But damn near everyone has cell phones. And I see jackasses around me who are texting/talking and not paying attention to their driving every time I'm behind the wheel, without exception. Having your attention diverted by your cell phone while driving causes at least as much impairment as being intoxicated.
Also, lets not forget that both tobacco and alcohol are perfectly legal, kill thousands each year, have zero therapeutic value, and nobody is freaking out about them. I don't know if people are aware of this, but if you smoke too many cigarettes or drink too much booze, those will both make you barf as well. This is the first time I've heard of CHS. But there's a simple and elegant solution, and it's this thing called moderation.
In CO alone in 2015, tax revenue from dispensary sales was around $130 million. But who needs things like good roads and good schools? Our dipshit legislators here in NE are flipping out right now because we share a border with CO. I am reminded of a not dissimilar situation involving gambling and casinos here in the 90's. Casinos were on the ballot, and lost, because the people in charge here (along with the majority of voters at the time) are a bunch of uptight puritans. IA was like "We'll take those casinos." Council Bluffs IA, which I can see from my window from across the river, used to be a total shithole. Care to guess what happend? I'll tell you. IA got those casinos. So now, Council Bluffs is transformed. Good roads. Good schools. Public art. A nice place to visit and live. NE could have had all of those wonderful things, but because a bunch of stuffed shirts are in charge here, all of that revenue goes across the river now. Hell, I too go across the river now to shop and see movies, because it's NICE over there!
If the concern is that you're going to have impaired people around you because pot is legal, I've got news. Before it was legal, you still had impaired people around you. Go to your nearest bar, and I can guarantee that place will be packed full of impaired people.
You can have the illusion of safety or you can have freedom. Choose one. I can't speak for anybody else, but I'll choose freedom every time. No contest.
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