Colorado legalized marijuana in November of 2012 and IMO it absolutely
destroyed Colorado.
Our homeless population skyrocketed. People came from all over the country for "Free weed". I'm not sure where that idea got started but I'm telling you a bunch of the people that I ran into at work thought that they were going to be able to have free weed in Colorado.
Our crime rate went up because the cartels moved in here and they started growing weed legally and illegally for shipment to the rest of the country.
The government looked at weed as a cash cow. Every time they wanted to pass a measure they raised the tax on weed to fund it.
What's that actually did was create a situation where the elicit dealers could raise the price on their product
significantly and still undercut the legal weed stores. And once weed is in a jar at your house the cops can't prove you didn't buy it from Maggie's Farm.
Weed is an all cash business because the banks won't touch it. Weed dealers get robbed. Weed Dealers get busted for income tax evasion.
Edited for clarity I meant legal weed dealers. AKA Dispensaries.
Quite a few of the "dispensaries" in Colorado Springs have gone bankrupt and gone out of business.
And people still think legalized weed is the best thing that ever happened to Colorado.
We're not supposed to discuss Politics on this forum and I'm not going to. I am going to recommend a YouTube video called The Rocky Mountain Heist it explains a lot of what I said above. I'm going to go right to the edge and say that it's a description of how several prominent leftists decided to buy the vote in Colorado and turn it Blue.
I highly recommend spending the 45 minutes to watch it.
If I could leave Colorado I would and we don't know we may yet. My daughter is the COO for a Private school that has campuses is 5 different states including Texas and Wyoming. She may get tired of Colorado's stupidity and move.
I had a heart attack a year ago and apparently it just devastated my wife. I barely remember it so I don't know.
Anyway my daughter decided from that that we were too old and too feeble to live alone especially in essentially the center of Colorado Springs. If any of you are familiar with Colorado Springs I can just about throw a rock from my front door and hit Academy and Austin Bluffs.
Whenever I say what I'm about to say I'm afraid I sound like I'm bragging so I want to be clear what I'm about to tell you was not
my accomplishment it's my daughter's charity.
My daughter moved out of the city several years ago and bought a Rancho right around 50 miles east of Falcon. Earlier this year she bought what used to be a weed farm in the sheriff's auction. (Isn't it Ironic) she's been renovating it and she moved her most responsible daughter on to the property to look after the old folks and we're moving in at the end of July.
Once we're there we're not leaving the property unless we have to. The closest to Colorado Springs we're going to get is the Walmart on the edge of Falcon.
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Somebody said you should have enough land to have your own range on your land. I can't call that a range because it's not developed or anything but that blue dot is a berm and the weed farmers had a Target stand set up there so somebody was shooting in that ditch and I intend to continue to do so.
