With most Colorado cities, counties and towns opting out of retail sales, those who opt in will become magnets. They may experience in-state, national and international drug tourism that will do more harm than good. Those who think it might somehow help a community,NFL Jerseys From China, to become a vacation spot and home to disproportionate numbers of recreational drug users, need only look to Amsterdam.
"The key point was a combo of two things - the number of uncertainties that would come with retail sales and things that would come downstream," Snider said of his vote.
So what might come downstream? How about losing future and current defense contractors who will question the wholesomeness of a community that makes buying drugs a lot like buying candy. Or how about military brass choosing to pass over Colorado Springs the next time they relocate or create a new unit. The military wants drugs harder to get, not easier.
A sampling of recent editorials from Colorado newspapers:
Dutch officials are coming out in droves declaring that marijuana has turned the city into a bastion of sleaze,Nike Air Force 1 Donna, avoided by upscale tourists who don't like the sight of gangs, pimps, hard-drugged homeless and prostitutes. Amsterdam legalized pot as a means of reducing hard-drug use and it appears the experiment backfired.
The Gazette, Aug. 12, on Colorado towns banning recreational marijuana sales:
Palmer Lake joins Colorado Springs,NFL Jerseys 2018, Monument, Woodland Park, Green Mountain Falls and Fountain in deciding to opt out of a decision by statewide voters that, in part,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys China, created an option for retail sales. Local governments cannot free themselves from the law's provision that allows personal cultivation of six plants and possession of up to 1 ounce of the drug for each person over age 21.
After Councilman Val Snyder surprised the community by voting against commercial sales, he made wise statements that all should consider.
The trend should signal that Colorado Springs made the right decision when it voted 5-4 last month to forgo sales. Representatives of the people throughout our community do not think it's in the best interests of the Pikes Peak region. And,Air Max 2019 Scontate, no, it's not a slight to the majority of area residents who voted to legalize recreational cultivation and use. The constitutional amendment they voted for clearly leaves the matter of retail sales up to local governing boards. That is the law the majority voted for and it's the law politicians respect when they choose no sales.
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So congratulations to Palmer Lake, Colorado Springs and the growing list of other cities that are just saying "no" to recreational retail sales of pot. Colorado voters legalized personal use and possession. They left sales up to locals for good reason.
Even Loveland,Cheap Adidas Shoes China, a free-spirited city not far from Boulder, has chosen to join the majority of Colorado communities that are opting out of recreational drug sales.
As Snyder put it: "This town has never had anything like this before and the unintended consequences that would surface I don't think have been thought through."
Editorial: http://gazette.com/colorado-towns-opting-out-of-retail-marijuana-sales-with-good-reasons/article/1504705
With the Palmer Lake Town Council's 4-1 vote Thursday to ban recreational marijuana sales, potential markets for over-the-counter pot sales - without a doctor's note - are quickly dwindling throughout the Pikes Peak Region.