A key promise of legalization is that it will free up police resources to fight real crime.
That appears to have happened in the first two legalization states, Washington and Colorado.
In a 2018 study in Police Quarterly, ‘Marijuana Legalization and Crime Clearance Rates’, an independent Washington State University research team crunched the FBI’s crime statistics and saw “no negative effects of legalization on crime clearance rates. … Moreover, evidence suggests some crime clearance rates have improved.”
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4 comments:
They need to do like Europe on Prostitution too. It is legal and regulated, and taxed.
12:01 why ask for regulation and taxes. Just legalize everything. It will only work though if you eliminate the welfare state. The government should not have to protect you from yourself, but you should suffer the consequences of your bad decisions, not put the burden on your fellow Americans.
Well said.
Very well said
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