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How many of our difficult child's will be moving to Colorado?
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<blockquote data-quote="rubyq" data-source="post: 561302" data-attributes="member: 15530"><p>This is very true. There are multiple reasons why it doesn't make sense for pot dealers to lace their pot with other drugs. The first is price, no one would take a cheap drug and lace it with an expensive drugs. Selling weed laced with cocaine would be like a restaurant selling a bowl of twenty cent ramen noodles topped with a 1/2 lb lobster tail. The second is that even if a dealer was fine with the idea of wasting money like that there are very few other drugs that can be smoked in the same manner as marijuana. Marijuana can be dipped in PCP and that's about it. When you smoke weed with cocaine you have to smoke it in a very specific way otherwise the cocaine will be largely inactive. Meth is smoked in an oil burner, heroin is smoked on foil, crack is smoked in a glass tube because that is how addicts are able to feel the effects. If any of these drugs were just mixed in with weed and smoked in a weed pipe the user would only feel the effects of the weed. The people who smoke weed laced with PCP or crack pay extra for that weed because of the cost of those drugs and smoke their weed differently to get the effects of both. </p><p></p><p>When I was in high school it was incredibly easy to get any drug, except alcohol. Legalizing weed will have that same effect and make it very difficult for children to get. Dealers won't be selling it because there will be no profit to be made, just like how there are no bootleggers today. When something becomes legal it takes the demand away from the black market. Will kids still be able to get weed? It's very likely, just as kids are able to find people to buy them alcohol or are able to sneak it away from their parents. But will it be much harder for children to get weed? Yes, because there will be no black market for them to buy it from. Plus the taxes collected from the legal marijuana will help fund programs that focus on prevention and safety. We're basically taking the money from dangerous dealers and gang bangers and investing it in our children and their future.</p><p></p><p>As for the cartels ramping up production of other drugs because of this, it's only happened in two states so far. If, in the future, more states legalized marijuana I still don't see them upping the production of other drugs in an attempt to make up for it. The amount of drugs the produce is determined by the number of people they have to buy their product. If they suddenly bring over 100 lbs of meth a day instead of just 1 lb all that would happen is the street price would decrease because there would be too much supply and not enough demand. </p><p></p><p>However, and I think this is even worse than the idea of the cartels upping their production of dangerous drugs, what I do see happening is the cartels will be forced to make money elsewhere. That elsewhere I predict will include business ventures like kidnapping, extortion, murder for hire, and software pirating. These schemes are basically where the majority of the Los Zetas profit comes from because they don't have the smuggling routes needed to transport drugs like the other, older cartels have. But even though they are unable to transport any where near the amount of drugs as the other cartels they still make money. Once the other cartels are also unable to profit through drugs they will very likely copy the Zetas. I don't see any of the cartels simply throwing their hands up and moving on to legitimate business once their drug profits begin plummeting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rubyq, post: 561302, member: 15530"] This is very true. There are multiple reasons why it doesn't make sense for pot dealers to lace their pot with other drugs. The first is price, no one would take a cheap drug and lace it with an expensive drugs. Selling weed laced with cocaine would be like a restaurant selling a bowl of twenty cent ramen noodles topped with a 1/2 lb lobster tail. The second is that even if a dealer was fine with the idea of wasting money like that there are very few other drugs that can be smoked in the same manner as marijuana. Marijuana can be dipped in PCP and that's about it. When you smoke weed with cocaine you have to smoke it in a very specific way otherwise the cocaine will be largely inactive. Meth is smoked in an oil burner, heroin is smoked on foil, crack is smoked in a glass tube because that is how addicts are able to feel the effects. If any of these drugs were just mixed in with weed and smoked in a weed pipe the user would only feel the effects of the weed. The people who smoke weed laced with PCP or crack pay extra for that weed because of the cost of those drugs and smoke their weed differently to get the effects of both. When I was in high school it was incredibly easy to get any drug, except alcohol. Legalizing weed will have that same effect and make it very difficult for children to get. Dealers won't be selling it because there will be no profit to be made, just like how there are no bootleggers today. When something becomes legal it takes the demand away from the black market. Will kids still be able to get weed? It's very likely, just as kids are able to find people to buy them alcohol or are able to sneak it away from their parents. But will it be much harder for children to get weed? Yes, because there will be no black market for them to buy it from. Plus the taxes collected from the legal marijuana will help fund programs that focus on prevention and safety. We're basically taking the money from dangerous dealers and gang bangers and investing it in our children and their future. As for the cartels ramping up production of other drugs because of this, it's only happened in two states so far. If, in the future, more states legalized marijuana I still don't see them upping the production of other drugs in an attempt to make up for it. The amount of drugs the produce is determined by the number of people they have to buy their product. If they suddenly bring over 100 lbs of meth a day instead of just 1 lb all that would happen is the street price would decrease because there would be too much supply and not enough demand. However, and I think this is even worse than the idea of the cartels upping their production of dangerous drugs, what I do see happening is the cartels will be forced to make money elsewhere. That elsewhere I predict will include business ventures like kidnapping, extortion, murder for hire, and software pirating. These schemes are basically where the majority of the Los Zetas profit comes from because they don't have the smuggling routes needed to transport drugs like the other, older cartels have. But even though they are unable to transport any where near the amount of drugs as the other cartels they still make money. Once the other cartels are also unable to profit through drugs they will very likely copy the Zetas. I don't see any of the cartels simply throwing their hands up and moving on to legitimate business once their drug profits begin plummeting. [/QUOTE]
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