Here are some statistics showing how things are going in Colorado since that state legalized the sale of so-called “medical marijuana”:
A majority of the owners of “medical marijuana” dispensaries in Colorado have criminal records, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Nearly one-fifth of those dispensary owners have felony convictions, ranging from sexual assault to burglary.
“The felony figures … bear out officials’ fears that former drug dealers and drug users have flocked to Colorado’s nascent medical marijuana industry,” The Associated Press reported.
Kevin Merrill, assistant special agent in charge for the Denver field division of the DEA, told the AP, “There’s people who are in the marijuana business strictly to make a profit and not what was portrayed to the voters, which was (to) care for very sick and imminently dying people.” He added, “This business seems to have an inappropriate number of people with criminal backgrounds involved as business owners.”