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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I wasn't a fan of legalization from a social perspective, but I can see the other side's argument and had moved toward the fence. If 50+ percent of the people in the state want it I'm willing to go along with the experiment. My business thrives on uncertainty and change, so I'll probably come out a winner personally.
And yeah, I'm sure that a majority of the population of smokers are productive people. If 10 percent of the population over 25 smokes marijuana (the latest estimate I've read), the numbers argue for it. And I personally know people that I respect a lot who use it.
My concern is that those people already have jobs in Chicago or Charleston or Boise, and they have actual lives. They're probably not going to say, "Ohhh, weed", and pack up the car and move here. The ones who say, "Ohhh, weed", and pack up and move here are the ones who have nothing else to do and are just watching TV all day. Of course, they're also the group who probably will get distracted or bored halfway through the trip, so they'll all end up living in Kansas or Utah.
As your bit of trivia for the day, I read estimates recently that 2/3 of marijuana consumption by volume is by the 18 percent of users who smoke more than 20 days per month. So if 20 percent of the adult population uses marijuana, 2/3rd of the market volume is being purchased by less than 4 percent of the population.
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I think you're overly worried about the amount of people who are going to want to move to CO just for the weed. I'd guess it'd be an extremely small group of people.
Pot is abundant everywhere and it being illegal in certain states never stopped anyone from smoking it.
Pot is legal in CO. Great. But i've been smoking it for years here in CA with no repercussions and it's very, very easy to get. Pot being legal simply isn't incentive enough to get up and switch states....especially for a stoner.
I could imagine there being a shit load of tourism though.