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Surprised by the backlash against Medical Marijuana in Colorado?
I am.
I would have thought that a year of dispensaries would have made people comfortable with the idea. What problems have occurred because of medical marijuana in Colorado?
Increased crime? No
More drug use? No
Increased tax revenues? Yes.
There are almost 100 medical cannabis dispensaries in the town I live in, and I can't even point to three places they exist on a map. They seem to keep a pretty low profile.
The only reason I know medical marijuana business is going on, is because I read the newspapers. Medical pot is the most interesting local story in a long time, and reporters love to cover it.
And this is the main cause of the backlash we are seeing now. The backlash where anti-pot forces claim medical cannabis advocates pulled a bait and switch, and that that the voters never intended for dispensaries to open...
The anti-dispensary people are made up of the usual suspects... reactionaries. The same people who hold us up with everything. These are the people who think "everything is changing too fast! We gotta slow down". Change makes them personally uncomfortable, and they take this out on the rest of us.
If the media wasn't relentlessly covering this story, and hyping burglaries that happen less often than bank robberies, these people wouldn't even know anything changed.
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