Crime Down, Revenue Up In Colorado Since Marijuana Legalization
Click here for reuse options!Crime in Colorado’s capital city, Denver, has dropped by more than a tenth, local law enforcement data reveals, and the state as a whole is expected to collect around $30 million in revenue this year as a result of weed taxes….
Between January 1 and April 30, violent crime and property crime in Denver — the most populated city in Colorado, in terms of both people and weed dispensaries — dropped 10.6 percent compared to that same span one year earlier, official statistics reveal. Homicides have dropped to less than half of last year’s levels, and motor vehicle theft has shrunk by over one-third.
Economically speaking, rolling back the weed ban in Colorado has done wonders as well. The Associated Press reported this week that nearly $19 million in recreational marijuana was sold throughout the state in just the month of March, with $1.9 million of that going immediately to Denver to be divvied up by lawmakers to various state programs.
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mea_mark June 6th, 2014 at 08:31
This is bad news for republicans that want to make money off of incarcerating people in private prisons. Time for the GOP to go into overdrive pumping out lies about how bad legalizing marijuana is.
Shootist June 6th, 2014 at 21:34
You’re tripping on some good weed, bra.
The majority of private prisons are in California (where the Correctional Officer Union owns the State Legislature) and Texas, with Florida coming in a far third.
Can’t see a difference between the two concepts, except the costs are lower and I don’t have to pay for a defined benefit plan (at least in Florida). Btw, Chumly, lower costs do not equate with “making money”.
Chinese Democracy June 7th, 2014 at 01:38
The biggest private prison owner in America, The Corrections Corporation of America, has seen its profits increase by more than 500% in the past 20 years.
Violent crimes are down overall, so how does the United States keep prisons stocked instead? AMPLIFYING THE WAR ON DRUGS
One way for-profit prisons to minimize costs is by skimping on provisions, including food. etc etc
The three largest for-profit prison corporations have spent more than $45 million on campaign donations and lobbyists to keep politicians on the side of privatized incarceration. In light of all of their ethical violations, it’s obvious that they have to offer some incentive for keeping their business legal.
http://goo.gl/Cs328U
making money is what the term FOR PROFIT means lil fella
kurtsteinbach June 7th, 2014 at 02:16
And CCA has its biggest presence in red states like Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, etc, not California….
mea_mark June 6th, 2014 at 08:31
This is bad news for republicans that want to make money off of incarcerating people in private prisons. Time for the GOP to go into overdrive pumping out lies about how bad legalizing marijuana is.
Shootist June 6th, 2014 at 21:34
You’re tripping on some good weed, bra.
The majority of private prisons are in California (where the Correctional Officer Union owns the State Legislature) and Texas, with Florida coming in a far third.
Can’t see a difference between the two concepts, except the costs are lower and I don’t have to pay for a defined benefit plan (at least in Florida). Btw, Chumly, lower costs do not equate with “making money”.
Chinese Democracy June 7th, 2014 at 01:38
The biggest private prison owner in America, The Corrections Corporation of America, has seen its profits increase by more than 500% in the past 20 years.
Violent crimes are down overall, so how does the United States keep prisons stocked instead? AMPLIFYING THE WAR ON DRUGS
One way for-profit prisons to minimize costs is by skimping on provisions, including food. etc etc
The three largest for-profit prison corporations have spent more than $45 million on campaign donations and lobbyists to keep politicians on the side of privatized incarceration. In light of all of their ethical violations, it’s obvious that they have to offer some incentive for keeping their business legal.
http://goo.gl/Cs328U
“tripping” on weed? Who do you think you are replying to Maureen Dowd ? lol
making money is what the term FOR PROFIT means lil fella
kurtsteinbach June 7th, 2014 at 02:16
And CCA has its biggest presence in red states like Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, etc, not California….
Sam Freedom June 7th, 2014 at 01:00
BRILLIANT… WHO COULDN’T FIGURE THAT MEDICATING PEOPLE WITH A SEDATIVE MIGHT BRING CRIME DOWN? BAD NEWS IS LIBERALS ARE ALWAYS SHORT SIGHTED. WAIT TIL ORGANIZED CRIME AND GANGS EXPLOIT THE POTHEAD CULTURE.
COLORADO = ONE BIG OPIUM DEN.
Chinese Democracy June 7th, 2014 at 01:28
Im waiting for you to figure out how to work the caps lock key
kurtsteinbach June 7th, 2014 at 02:13
You do realize that marijuana is not a sedative. People still work in Colorado, and legalizing marijuana has actually brought the price of it down, not raised it. Legalizing marijuana and other drugs has the potential to break Organized Crime, Gangs, and Drug Cartels. They make their money charging high prices that are associated with illegal activities such as drug trafficking, drug smuggling, and illegal drug sales. If you make those activities legal, you eliminate most drug smuggling, drug trafficking, and selling is legal, so it can be done openly and safely. I know you don’t understand any of this because it is logic and reason, and that kind of thing is way above your tiny, little, whacked out Conservative mind. BTW, no one is seriously considering legalizing Opiates, either….
Skip Patterson June 7th, 2014 at 21:21
Yeah I have been noticing in the one recreational pot store we have in my town, that you can now see their is downward pressure of the cost of weed and that will only get greater as more shops opens.
The one thing that really does bother me about how this is working is since banks won’t open bank accounts for pot stores these are all cash transactions. If that is not fixed and soon it could bring armed robbery back into the game.
kurtsteinbach June 7th, 2014 at 22:09
Hopefully, as the legalization movement spreads, the bank’s greed will take over as always. They will not be able to resist enabling them to take electronic checks and Paypal, As for credit cards, that is in the hands of Visa, MC, AA, Discover, etc to allow those cards to be taken. You should be able to use CCs at those stores, they would just have to use written CC slips, not swiping. It will change…. The bank’s greed will force them to change, so will VISA, MC, Discover, and the others….
Skip Patterson June 8th, 2014 at 15:18
I think your on the money there. One thing we can now always depend on from the business class is that they will act on their greed more than anything else and that is what is ultimately making the pot legalization movement happen.
And it didn’t use to be that way. There was a time, as I can remember it, when the business class did have some ethics about them. But that all changed in the early 70’s when the MBA guys, or as I have always called them, “The bottom line boys,” with their degrees from Princeton and Yale started taking over the management of the corporate world.
kurtsteinbach June 8th, 2014 at 18:52
I disagree. I think they pretended to have ethics for appearances sake. Their true pragmatism and reason for being, greed, took over, and that’s all she wrote. the rest is history….
Sko Hayes June 7th, 2014 at 07:29
Hey, genius, organized crime and gangs have exploited illegal cannabis for decades. We take it away from them by making it legal.
Geez, read some history.
mea_mark June 7th, 2014 at 08:16
He probably can’t read if it is not in all caps.
Sam Freedom June 7th, 2014 at 01:00
BRILLIANT… WHO COULDN’T FIGURE THAT MEDICATING PEOPLE WITH A SEDATIVE MIGHT BRING CRIME DOWN? BAD NEWS IS LIBERALS ARE ALWAYS SHORT SIGHTED. WAIT TIL ORGANIZED CRIME AND GANGS EXPLOIT THE POTHEAD CULTURE.
COLORADO = ONE BIG OPIUM DEN.
Chinese Democracy June 7th, 2014 at 01:28
Im waiting for you to figure out how to work the caps lock key
kurtsteinbach June 7th, 2014 at 02:13
You do realize that marijuana is not a sedative. People still work in Colorado, and legalizing marijuana has actually brought the price of it down, not raised it. Legalizing marijuana and other drugs has the potential to break Organized Crime, Gangs, and Drug Cartels. They make their money charging high prices that are associated with illegal activities such as drug trafficking, drug smuggling, and illegal drug sales. If you make those activities legal, you eliminate most drug smuggling, drug trafficking, and selling is legal, so it can be done openly and safely. I know you don’t understand any of this because it is logic and reason, and that kind of thing is way above your tiny, little, whacked out Conservative mind. BTW, no one is seriously considering legalizing Opiates, either….
Skip Patterson June 7th, 2014 at 21:21
Yeah I have been noticing in the one recreational pot store we have in my town, that you can now see their is downward pressure of the cost of weed and that will only get greater as more shops opens.
The one thing that really does bother me about how this is working is since banks won’t open bank accounts for pot stores these are all cash transactions. If that is not fixed and soon it could bring armed robbery back into the game.
kurtsteinbach June 7th, 2014 at 22:09
Hopefully, as the legalization movement spreads, the bank’s greed will take over as always. They will not be able to resist enabling them to take electronic checks and Paypal, As for credit cards, that is in the hands of Visa, MC, AA, Discover, etc to allow those cards to be taken. You should be able to use CCs at those stores, they would just have to use written CC slips, not swiping. It will change…. The bank’s greed will force them to change, so will VISA, MC, Discover, and the others….
Skip Patterson June 8th, 2014 at 15:18
I think your on the money there. One thing we can now always depend on from the business class is that they will act on their greed more than anything else and that is what is ultimately making the pot legalization movement happen.
And it didn’t use to be that way. There was a time, as I can remember it, when the business class did have some ethics about them. But that all changed in the early 70’s when the MBA guys, or as I have always called them, “The bottom line boys,” with their degrees from Princeton and Yale started taking over the management of the corporate world.
kurtsteinbach June 8th, 2014 at 18:52
I disagree. I think they pretended to have ethics for appearances sake. Their true pragmatism and reason for being, greed, took over, and that’s all she wrote. the rest is history….
Sko Hayes June 7th, 2014 at 07:29
Hey, genius, organized crime and gangs have exploited illegal cannabis for decades. We take it away from them by making it legal.
Geez, read some history.
mea_mark June 7th, 2014 at 08:16
He probably can’t read if it is not in all caps.
Skip Patterson June 7th, 2014 at 12:16
When you get good and stoned going out and boosting cars just doesn’t seem like a good idea anymore.
Skip Patterson June 7th, 2014 at 12:16
When you get good and stoned going out and boosting cars just doesn’t seem like a good idea anymore.
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