“The pot industry is creating jobs we didn’t have before,” Kelly Moye, a Re/Max real estate agent in Denver, explained. “It’s brand new, it adds a whole new factor to the area; you have real estate needs, housing needs, job needs.”
I understand why people want to move there. Colorado is stunningly beautiful.
Every time I read an article like this I get so mad at the Harper government. The previous Liberal prime minster Jean Chretien decriminalized pot. It was on its way to being completely legal, but Stephen Harper got in, and a die hard Prohibitionist made it illegal again, made a pledge to crest mandatory minimums. In short, create the absolutely horrifying situation that’s been going on in the U.S. He also made it illegal for medical pot users to grow their own. We legalized gay marriage in 2005. Pot legalization was supposed to the next frontier. Both the NDP and the Liberals pledge to legalize pot. Let’s hope they do so. Jets and Jails. That’s what Harper is known for. What a douche. Say it….. Legalization of marijuana has been good for the economy…..SAY IT!From what I gather it was expensive to buy a home in a lot of places out there before all this awesomeness. I don’t want to alarm anyone but the cost of housing has risen markedly over the last five years virtually coast to coast. Colorado is part off ‘The United States”. Hey look – Colorado’s housing cost increase is exactly the same as their next door neighbor Utah which does not have legal marijuana. Colorado as a whole up 8%… Denver up 10%. Stunning that the biggest city in the state had increases slightly over the average for the state. Stunning I tell ya’.
I’m talking 10 to 15 years ago…family friend bought a house out there near Boulder and the price was pretty high for the small fixer upper he got compared to the cheaper, bigger, nicer place he had near Minneapolis.