Dr. Eowyn posted: " The law of unintended consequences strikes again.
Jace Larson reports for Click2Houston, Sept. 22, 2014, that Colorado is
seeing a significant increase in the number of homeless people arriving
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Homeless flock to Colorado for pot
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*The law of unintended consequences strikes again.*
Jace Larson reports for Click2Houston
<http://www.click2houston.com/news/pot-draws-homeless-texans-to-colorado/28186888>,
Sept. 22, 2014, that *Colorado is seeing a significant increase in the
number of homeless people *arriving from Texas and the head of two homeless
shelters said *a big reason for the increase is homeless people wanting to
smoke pot.*
"It wasn’t the only reason but it was one of the main factors," Runa Renee
Townsend, a homeless woman from Fort Worth, said of her reason for moving
to Colorado.
*At the Salvation Army’s overnight shelter, they have seen their numbers
nearly double. *The shelter had to use an old storage room to house the
extra people. "We were averaging 190 people a night. Now we are averaging
345 people a night," said Murray Flagg, the Salvation Army Intermountain
Divisional secretary for social services. "We find *about one in four
people have come for some marijuana related issue.*"
Colorado made recreational marijuana legal under state law at the beginning
of the year. Medical marijuana, which requires a doctor’s prescription, has
been legal for years. Both types of marijuana are still illegal under
federal law, but the federal government has taken a mostly hands-off
approach to prosecuting people who possess only a small amount of marijuana
and who do not traffic it while committing other crimes.
Craig Howard, who used to live in Lubbock, went to Denver. He said he meets
homeless Texans every day who went to Colorado to smoke marijuana, "There
are a lot of people here from Texas."
Tom Luehrs, executive director of the St. Francis Center day shelter in
Denver, said he was surprised by the increase in homeless from Texas coming
to Colorado, "At least 10 percent of our new out-of-state population is
coming from Texas. People tell us is that they think they can get a job
because marijuana is legal here."
Homeless people often have jobs that pay minimum wage. Some of them work as
day laborers making about $38 a day. They earn enough for spending money
but not enough to pay rent.
Meanwhile, Colorado's sales tax revenue has mushroomed from the sale of
recreational marijuana which is taxed at more than 20%. The state received
more than $3 million in sales tax in just one month this year.
See also Steve's "The Homeless. Do We Even Look? Are You Sure?
<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/09/17/the-homeless-do-we-even-look-are-you-sure/>
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*~Eowyn*
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