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Originally Posted by Rags123
For a start, peruse this report...
http://www.rmhidta.org/html/August%2...e%20Impact.pdf
In that report are the following results listed...
. The majority of DUI drug arrests involve marijuana and 25 to 40 percent were marijuana alone.
2. In 2012, 10.47 percent of Colorado youth ages 12 to 17 were considered current marijuana users compared to 7.55 percent nationally. Colorado ranked fourth in the nation, and was 39 percent higher than the national average.
3. Drug-related student suspensions/expulsions increased 32 percent from school years 2008-09 through 2012-13, the vast majority were for marijuana violations.
4. In 2012, 26.81 percent of college age students were considered current marijuana users compared to 18.89 percent nationally, which ranks Colorado third in the nation and 42 percent above the national average.
5. In 2013, 48.4 percent of Denver adult arrestees tested positive for marijuana, which is a 16 percent increase from 2008.
6. From 2011 through 2013 there was a 57 percent increase in marijuana-related emergency room visits.
7. Hospitalizations related to marijuana has increased 82 percent since 2008.
ADD TO ALL OF THAT the desensitizing of our young people...your kids and grandkids...
And a question....HEROIN has proven to have some medical benefits to some....is that the next thing on the ballot.
Plus, it has become so political...you are asking every day citizens to make a judgement call on something that the AMA and the American Cancer Society are begging folks to allow more tests by them and the FDA. |
PS TO OP....I might add that reading your post here and one on the other thread on the same subject....copying and pasting WITHOUT QUOTES or giving credit to the SOURCE is against forum rules as well as United States Copyright law