(05-03-2018, 11:18 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: I actually had a chat a couple of weeks ago with two of my aunts who live in Colorado about the nasty blowback of pot being legalized there. They both said it's ruining everything from the job market to the housing market. The Russian mob has moved into the outlying areas of bigger towns and cities; the money the pot shops can't deposit their money into federally backed banks or credit unions so they take all that cash and buy up property/houses/land and resell it or rent it for outrageous prices; people can't pass drug tests so they lose their jobs and end up in state assistance; people flood into the state for the pot but can't afford the housing, can't pass drug tests. Basically they don't come with a plan and just wing it. Companies are having a hard time filling positions because folks fail drug tests. 

No matter if it's legalized federally if private companies won't allow employees to smoke. If companies allow employees to smoke but it's not legal at the state of federal level, it doesn't matter. Unless everyone gets in the same page one way or another folks will always be looking over their shoulder.