Posted on Mar 12, 2018
If all taxes went to fund police in schools would you be for legalizing recreational marijuana federally?
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I did some math the other day using the $70 million dollars CO takes in from weed taxes. The rough average expense for hiring a new police officer is about 100k I went on the high side to stay conservative. That would come out to 700 LEOs hired in the first year. That number would go down every year. Eventually no additional police could be hired using just the tax money, but with the average salary of a police being roughly 55k/yr about 1200 police would be in a job because of the taxes. IN just so happens to have roughly 1200 public schools. Now the numbers of taxable weed sales and police salary would vary from state to state but it seems like a very easy solution and to be honest it could be one of the least controversial solutions. Trained guns in every school at no additional cost to people who chose not to partake in cannabis consumption.
Posted 8 y ago
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Having lost a brother to a drug overdose I do not support any idea to legalize and drug. I have watched some unscrupulous Physicians use PTSD as an excuse to sell dope, to sell Opioids, and other hard drugs, no I do not, nor can I ever support such an idea.
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Marijuana shouldn't be legal. Any revenue from "medical MJ" is blood money.
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LTJG Richard Bruce
Most of the money spent on illegal drugs supports further illegal acts. Majority of homicides are due to drug activity. If one wants to grow MJ in their back yard and never leave their home under the influence, and never seek Gov't money to treat effects of MJ use, then more power to them.
Most illegal drug use results in damaged bodies, damaged family life, and damaged futures. Yesterday, 16 killed in Southern Mexico due to drug related activity. List of deaths in the USA, Mexico, and Central America is quite long.
Most illegal drug use results in damaged bodies, damaged family life, and damaged futures. Yesterday, 16 killed in Southern Mexico due to drug related activity. List of deaths in the USA, Mexico, and Central America is quite long.
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SPC David Willis
LTJG Richard Bruce - But you do realize medical and legal recreational marijuana eliminates the illegal acts right? Its grown industrially not in someone's back yard. Its the same thing that went with alcohol prohibition. Crime sky rocketed as opposing gangs killed each other in the streets to move booze. Once it was legal that crime disappeared and went to other prohibited substances. Also that's exactly what people want the right to do, stay in their home and smoke it without government interference. People who are killed in commission of drug deals are killed when they're lighting up they're killed on their way to/from or at the deal itself. All people want is a way to safely buy it and in a way where they know what's in it. People would like to see it treated like alcohol in that there would PI laws as well as DUI laws as well. No one is calling for a wild wild west.
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LTJG Richard Bruce
Making MJ legal doesn't eliminate crime. End of Prohibition didn't end crime. Alcohol related crime is rampant; 2016 stats; 10,075 alcohol related traffic deaths and 1.5mil DUI arrests, millions of crimes per year for panhandling, shoplifting, petty theft, simple assaults, etc.
Stats for effects of legal MJ use have not be fully collected yet. For states that have decriminalized MJ, I suspect; tax fraud, DUI's, panhandling, vagrancies, petty thefts, and other misdemeanors are increasing. High school discipline problems have greatly increased in Colorado. State has seen a huge increase in MJ related hospitalizations costing the taxpayers tens of millions. Illegal growing labs have increased. Crime has not ended, just changed.
Opiods are legal, but tens of thousands are dying due to illegal use.
Some drugs may be legal to use, but its use is not without consequences.
Stats for effects of legal MJ use have not be fully collected yet. For states that have decriminalized MJ, I suspect; tax fraud, DUI's, panhandling, vagrancies, petty thefts, and other misdemeanors are increasing. High school discipline problems have greatly increased in Colorado. State has seen a huge increase in MJ related hospitalizations costing the taxpayers tens of millions. Illegal growing labs have increased. Crime has not ended, just changed.
Opiods are legal, but tens of thousands are dying due to illegal use.
Some drugs may be legal to use, but its use is not without consequences.
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Unfortunately tht would not happen, they would toke it off to other programs.
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I'll be the first to admit that I'm not "all read up" on pot so I can't agree to legalize it at this point. And I still don't think an armed policeman in every school would completely eliminate school shootings. Would it help? Probably some. But legalizing a drug to help "some" seems risky to me.
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SPC David Willis
I guess my overall point is its estimated at around a $3 billion federal revenue source which could pay for many, many things. It has better long-term health issues than cigarettes and impacts you temporarily like alcohol does. That's very much a laypersons scientific explanation but its the gist of it.
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MAJ (Join to see)
SPC David Willis - I've seen those arguments for legalizing it but just haven't really done the fact checking on it. Plus, I think we'd just be kicking the can down the road. I agree with MAJ Bryan Zeski that this is a societal problem. If legalizing pot secures our schools, what do we legalize when shooters start targeting other areas? Don't get me wrong, my wife and I have 3 kids in school, I'm all for more security. But not at any cost.
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I guess I should have said fund police or private security in school. Police seems to be getting the connotation they would be patrolling on the streets. I simply meant the money would go towards securing the schools. How they do that could be up to the states.
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