Colorado's plan to become Calirado is going well. How do you like that crime?

As someone who lived in Colorado before and after their weed laws passed, I can tell you being the first state to legalize weed came with a LOT of unwanted baggage. Baggage that the weed dependent economy is desperate to conceal too. First EVERY scumbag weed dealer in the country moved in after that law passed. Which strangled off the already limited housing supply. And they brought their drug dealer attitudes with them. The state changed over the years since legal weed and older, poorer neighborhoods took on a very seedy vibe while the state in general just seemed rougher. The state was less "Beautiful State Park" and more "Wanna dime bag" after a few years. The only smell you'll experience is weed smoke when you walk on your back porch. And every freaking child molester in the country seemed to relocate to Colorado, with hopes of making it big as the next Maggie's Farm. It was shocking to see dozens of molesters living between our house and the kiddo's school...and that replayed itself every time we moved. It became a joke to see if there were less than 20 molesters living in our neighborhood. Friends in real estate told horror stories of rentals being gutted by brainless out-of-state potheads who want to start illegal grows. Homes on land were snatched up by cartels and you learned to avoid living by homes with large barns as paranoid gang bangers with automatic weapons were likely already there. Almost rented a home next to a russian illegal grow. Imagine my surprise when we saw that on the news! Some cities, like Trinidad, seem to have no other business besides weed. And potshops outnumber gas stations, churches, and schools combined. And before you say that's good, imagine going to a typical gas station and being accosted by shirtless, high, half-starved Manson Family wannabe's begging for money, food or drugs while you have kids in car seats watching. This is Colorado...not Old Detroit from Robocop for Christ's sake! And the Progressives in power are already waving the white flags, promising lower sentencing and fewer consequences for everyone. So yeah, Calirado is coming along nicely.

🤣🤣🤣 you dont like it move.

Good luck avoiding child molestors though. They're literally fricken EVERYWHERE not just Colorado. Look up any neighborhood on the sex offender registry, it looks like your area has the chicken pox

"I can tell you being the first state to legalize weed came with a LOT of unwanted baggage"

here's an idea: make every state legalize weed :)
can't call them criminals if they didn't break a law. weed is only illegal because those poor prison holders need money

Again, there is a big difference between the plant and the dealers who sell it. This simple fact is the #1 stumbling block for all the weedalcoholics I've met. Everyone just wants to smoke weed, the baggage on the backend goes ignored...until it can't. So let's jump in the wayback machine...the Boulder potheads who pushed for legal weed on every ballot initative (I was there, so I saw this first hand) promised all sorts of positives for the public at large. Weed was safer than booze, it would save minorites from racist possession charges, lower prison populations, reduce court congestion, improve tourism, advance medical knowledge, and the taxes collected would pay for everything in the state! It was the golden goose! And only peaceful lovable hippies and transitory college students would be using the weed anyway. So what's the difference as they did this already? There were even people saying potheads were nice folks who just wanted to sleep. Ironically similar pitches were made before the Three Mile Island disaster, where nuclear power would make electricty too cheap to bother charging for it. Yeah, promises, promises, promises indeed!

Anyway, what was not mentioned, never considered, and blew up in our face was lowlife drug dealers all across the nation flocked to Colorado too. And as they saying goes, you can take the thug out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the thug. The sleazy attitudes, violent tendencies, and criminal skills of all those drug dealers came with them. Hickenlooper when he was still govoner (a booze man by trade and not the sharpest knife in the kitchen intellectually) said he regretted not considering all of the angles. Even he discovered this was more than just some new recreation, there were consequences no one was mentioning. Now this is less a problem today as weed is legal in other states. But do you think the dealers who flocked to Colorado left en mass once other states legalized weed??? Hell no! Moving is a big deal, why leave beautiful Colorado when you have established youself and your customer base? So yes, I saw all of this, I saw the change, I met the people who came in to exploit the state.....this is a problem adults will have to fix because the potheads are too busy protecting the damn plant and not considering the violent jackass selling the buds.

I think this is best summed up by a bumper sticker I saw once in Denver....."weed is legal in other states, you can leave now!"

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Your comments shouldn't be this long. Its fricken imgflip dude.

"And as they saying goes, you can take the thug out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the thug"

could've been avoided if laws never influenced the elusive dealer behavior in the first place

Riiiiight. 🤣🤣🤣

1970s the Bronx is burning in just a few short years! We were warned!

Oh you lived there? You lived there almost 20 years? So you saw everything that happened? Nope, I don't think so! And you missed the point too. It was not the stupid plant, people were smoking that non-stop before. It was the desire to be the first legal state, to create an open season enviroment that motivated every scumbag across the nation with dreams of selling weed without going to jail to move to the state. That was the real problem. And I suspect I know far more Coloradians than you, and they all saw the same insanity creeping in. Do you think we didn't notice or talk about this stuff? I assume you think all those early potheads and growers were sweet, law abiding, and innocent hippies? Are you sure they were not career criminals with rap sheets and stolen guns in their back pocket? How many real estate agents are you friends with in Colorado? Ever hear their horror stories about the out-of-state drug dealers destroying rental homes to convert them to grow houses? Yeah that time I almost rented a house next to a Russian illegal grow house must have been a fluke! Or that house that was near some friends of mine that had MS-13 boys growing weed in a huge barn...that must have been an accident too. Or those tweaker parents with green hair who always wanted my kids to come to their house for a play date...they literally had drying bundles of weed hanging from every square inch of their ceilings. Even their baby's room! Plus they had a slight problem with entering houses they didn't own. They were post legalization transplants too. But I guess my irrefutable experience is wrong and you are right. Colorado is better, safer, smarter and cheaper to live in than before with all those young, angry dealers moving in. The crime surge must have been caused by secret Trump 5G towers! I knew it!

I’ve lived in Colorado for 90% of my life, and I’m not an actual adult, but I loathe foreigners coming here, and f**king up the housing market. I usually don’t pay attention to the news though. Even though crime rate is high, and so are the people, I still enjoy Colorado for the scenery. I’ve been to the top of pikes peak and I can say it looks amazing from the top. The art here, is also amazing. We have an art museum, a concert hall where our own Colorado symphony orchestra play.

Even then, I still wish that Colorado was better

Jared Polis made the state a sanctuary for illegals. That’s what is to blame.