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- Opponents of drug liberalization argue that it would increase the amount of drug users, increase crime, destroy families, and increase the amount of adverse physical effects among drug users.
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Sep 21, 2020 · Impacts of legal cannabis regulation on prevalence and frequency of use continue to be evaluated, with recent data suggesting small increases among adults, but not youth. 93 Drug policies may be more able to influence the types of drugs that people use, drug-related risk behaviours and modes of drug consumption. 94 Metrics to assess these ...
- Ayden I Scheim, Nazlee Maghsoudi, Zack Marshall, Siobhan Churchill, Carolyn Ziegler, Dan Werb, Dan W...
- 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035148
- 2020
- BMJ Open. 2020; 10(9): e035148.
Mar 16, 2021 · An argument against legalization posits that these reductions in public defense caseload would be offset by an increase in crime, such as petty crime and driving under the influence, due to legalization.
Dec 6, 2022 · This review summarizes extant literature on the effect of drug policy liberalization on crime, traffic safety, law enforcement, and racial disparities. Overall, the literature suggests that cannabis legalization has resulted in some benefits to public health and public safety, even while some studies have produced mixed findings with regard to ...
Mar 1, 1996 · In any case, the risk of higher drug consumption might be acceptable if legalization could reduce dramatically if not remove entirely the crime associated with the black market for illicit...
Current research (Rouhani et al., 2022) reveals that 35% of people in the United States support the removal of criminal penalties of drug use, when drilling down into those with the lowest levels of support, the data revealed that greater racial resentment was strongly associated with reduced support for drug decriminalization.
Opponents of drug liberalization argue that it would increase the amount of drug users, increase crime, destroy families, and increase the amount of adverse physical effects among drug users.
Nov 28, 2019 · Although these studies concur that liberalization of drug use is not associated with large increases in drug consumption, there has been less focus on other outcomes and the ways in which specific mechanisms and contexts combine to produce positive or negative results.
