A 2020 study One of the biggest potential benefits of adult-use canna- looking at Colorado found that cannabis legalization reduced bis legalization is its potential to undermine the revenue of crime in the state and six neighboring states while a 2021 study cartels and gangs by reducing the demand for black market focused on Oregon found a slight increase in violent crime and products and in turn. [...] Research from our neighbor to the north law enforcement agency.23 Evidence on the impact of mari- concluded that the establishment of a legal market reduced juana legalization on clearance rates for violent and property the demand for illicit cannabis products.31 crime is limited but the weight of initial results indicates that But we know from the general principles of economics that it improves. [...] Drug Issues 392 (2020) (finding that legalization of marijuana in Colorado caused a spillover effect on neighboring states and reduced the rates of property crime and assaults); Davide Dragone, et al., Crime and the legalization of recreational marijuana, 159 J. [...] 1069 (2016) (finding that opening of a medical marijuana dispensary in the previous year is associated with either an increase or larger increase than projected in crime in both the block where a medical marijuana dispensary is located and the surrounding area); But see William Zakrzewski, et al., Cannabis in the capital: exploring the spatial association between medical marijuana dispensaries and. [...] Fink, et al., Medical marijuana laws and driving under the influence of marijuana and alcohol, 115 Addiction 1944 (2020) (finding that driving under the influence of alcohol was not impacted by legalizing medical cannabis but that driving under the influence of cannabis was slightly more prevalent in states with a medical cannabis market); Benedetti, supra note 39 (finding that drivers in states t.
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