420 with CNW — Study Finds Marijuana Legalization Has Greater Impact on Arrests Than Decriminalization

January 3, 2023 16:25:00

Researchers from the University of California San Diego recently conducted a study on the impact of adult-use decriminalization and legalization of marijuana on possession arrests. They discovered that legalization was linked to a significant decrease in marijuana possession arrests among individuals in legal states that decriminalized the drug prior to legalizing it. This is in addition to observing that the reduction in arrests was considerably higher in states that had shifted to legalization from criminalization without decriminalizing marijuana.

For their study, the researchers obtained data on marijuana possession arrests from the…

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