Colorado

[EviLBraiN]

Pô punisher, teu link só fala do primeiro topic do relatorio que postei. E vc postou como se fosse uma resposta à todos...

Mas então falando só sobre a parte de acidentes de trânsitos:

Cada um puxou a sardinha pro seu lado. O que eu postei mostra o fato que apesar dos acidentes no geral estarem diminuindo, os acidentes causados por quem usou maconha aumentaram.

Dae o link q vc postou explica que não se pode ligar o fato de a pessoa ter usado com a maconha diminuiu reflexos e por isso bateu. Pois os testes usados identificam quem usou maconha até dias antes do acidente e não só no dia.

Mostra que a correlação com a forma de teste atual não pode existir. Mas isso não é sinônimo de não existir. Pode ser por ainda não ter um teste mais acurado.

Isso tá que nem medicina, no fim o estudo conclui que mais estudos são necessários... hehehe

Eu acho que o Colorado, Uruguai, etc são laboratórios. A gente deve ler o máximo de informações que ainda vão aparecer. Querer partir desde já de qualquer de um dos dois lados é fanatismo...

[Yakov]

Role reversal: US weed now being smuggled into Mexico

While more states consider legalizing marijuana, an interesting and unintended consequence is coming into view: weed grown in the United States is increasingly being smuggled into Mexico, instead of the other way around.

Mexico used to supply the vast majority of marijuana in the United States, but that situation is slowly changing due to legalization efforts in America. Interestingly, though, it’s not just Americans who want to get their hands on weed Made in the USA – its superior quality is catching the eyes of Mexican drug cartels.

In a story by National Public Radio, the Drug Enforcement Administration said home-grown pot is being transferred to Mexico, where it’s being sold to anyone who can afford the premium price.

"It makes sense," DEA spokesman Lawrence Payne said. "We know the cartels are already smuggling cash into Mexico. If you can buy some really high-quality weed here, why not smuggle it south, too, and sell it at a premium?"

In fact, the potency of American-made pot (normally with 10-20 percent THC content) is significantly stronger than the cannabis grown in Mexico (3-8 percent). With demand for Mexican-grown pot shrinking, profit margins are plummeting as well.

"Mexican marijuana is considered to be of poor quality generally because it's grown in bulk, outdoors; it's typically dried but not really cured, which is something we do here in the U.S. with connoisseur-quality cannabis," Payne told NPR. "And it's also bricked up, meaning that it's compressed, for sale and packaging and in order to get it over the border efficiently."

Instead of making $60-$90 per kilogram, pot growers are getting between $30 and $40 per kilogram. If that number keeps going down, growers may abandon the drug altogether.

Meanwhile, American weed is selling for three or four times more money than pot south of the border.

What that means for drug cartels, however, remains unclear. They may continue smuggling pot from the US to tell in Mexico, they may move on from cannabis, or they may simply prioritize other sales.

"I believe that now, because of the changes they're having to make because of marijuana legalization in the U.S., the cartel is pushing more cocaine, meth and heroin. They're diversifying," Javier Valdez, a journalist and expert on drug culture in Sinaloa, Mexico, said to NPR.

Still, the DEA’s claims have yet to be substantiated by hard numbers. According an article by US News & World Report, Payne could not provide specific numbers or point to any recent prosecutions, leaving the scale of this reverse-smuggling unknown.

In response, Mason Tvert of the Marijuana Policy Project, a US pot legalization advocacy group, suggested the DEA needs to provide evidence before anything can be concluded.

“It's certainly interesting if it is actually the case, but we should probably wait until there is confirmation that it's even happening before we jump to conclusions,” he said. “Unfortunately, the DEA doesn't have a great track record when it comes to providing objective information about marijuana.”

http://rt.com/usa/210895-usa-marijuana-smuggle-mexico/

[Never Ping]

Eu acho que agora o Brasil deveria legalizar maconha e exportar. Vamos ganhar muito dinheiro.

[u3663]

UP!

Colorado is making so much money from cannabis it's having to give some back to citizens

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10020466.html

Colorado's marijuana experiment has been an empirically rousing success thus far, with crime down and tourism up, and now the state has collected so much money in tax from sales of pot that it might be legally obliged to give some back.

The state constitution puts a cap on the amount of tax money that can be taken in before some has to be returned, meaning Coloradans could see a share of the $50 million generated by sales of recreational cannabis.

"I think it's appropriate that we keep the money for marijuana that the voters said that we should," said Republican Senate President Bill Cadman.

"This is a little bit of a different animal. There's a struggle on this one," added Sen. Kevin Grantham, one of the Republican budget writers.

Coloradans may be asked to vote on making marijuana exempt from the tax cap - the money instead being ploughed into more drug education and police training to spot stoned drivers, as marijuana legalisation is designed to pay for itself without dipping into general taxes.

Last month, a Denver police chief confirmed that a year after legalisation "everything is fine", crime has continued to drop and police are going about their business as usual.

[rockafeller]

que merda!
aposto que aumentou a violência! e os gastos com a saúde!

[Kensha]

Postado por Never Ping

Eu acho que agora o Brasil deveria legalizar maconha e exportar. Vamos ganhar muito dinheiro.

hauiehuiaeh falando merda as usual