Legalizing Medical Marijuana Doesn’t Lead to Crime, According to Actual Crime Stats
Opponents of medical marijuana envision all kinds of insidious ways that legalizing the drug might lead to crime. Make marijuana more accessible, and more people will use it. If more people use it, more will tumble through the weed “gateway” to cocaine, or worse. Those people will then engage in crime to fund their hard-drug habits, or violence in the service of getting the stuff. Furthermore: Once word gets out about medical dispensaries, those locations will become hotspots for criminals who now [...]
