I wish the people who make our laws would think through the impact of those laws before they pass them.
Yesterday The Daily Signal posted a story about one of the results of the legalization of marijuana use in Colorado.
The article reports:
An informal survey of 500 people at a Denver homeless shelter reveals that 30 percent of new inhabitants came to Colorado because of the state’s legally available marijuana.
“The older ones are coming for medical (marijuana), the younger ones are coming just because it’s legal,” Brett Van Sickle, director of Denver’s Salvation Army Crossroads Shelter, told the Associated Press.
That particular shelter has more than doubled its staff to care for the new out-of-towners.
What in the world are the benefits of this law? A 30 percent increase in homelessness does not help anyone.