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The confusion arises when I see people moving to a place for recreational use of a drug. Have we really put so many boundaries on the people that the moment there is an ounce of freedom in another place the influx begins. Marijuana usage in Colorado has become a gold rush and this disgusts me. Now, I'm now against the use of marijuana for recreation and or medical purposes but when this becomes a key factor to people coming to Colorado to territorialize and "make a home" so that they can be a part of a "revolution" it sickens me. I'm angry mostly with the monopoly of our real-estate here. Since 2012 our rates on apartments have tripled due to

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     Jean Baudrillard says that our societal systems have strictly become reliant on imitations of the real, rather then what the real is. Baudrillard quotes, "The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory—precession of simulacra—that engenders the territory"[1] Baudrillard argues that our systems and meanings have resulted in a substitution of things that use to be real and have a real underlying meaning, with signs of the real and nothing has true meaning anymore.  A great example of this would be Disneyland or the Holy Land experience. These types of pl