Voters legalized marijuana in Alaska, Oregon and Washington D.C. Various debates are swirling: whether marijuana is harmful, whether it should be legal, whether it should be punished with jail time, whether it should be used medicinally, etc.
What of the debate as to whether marijuana contributes to crime? I would point out the number of times criminals are found to be under the influence of marijuana. If we were to take the percentage of times a person committing a crime is considered to be under the influence of marijuana, and compare it to the percentage of all people under the influence of marijuana at any given moment, I suggest the percentage committing criminals under the influence would far excede the percentage of the general public.
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