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Maybe it was buried in there but what I didn't see is a graph showing the amount of money spent on dealing with marijuana related crimes that is now going to ot
by greggman 10y ago
Maybe it was buried in there but what I didn't see is a graph showing the amount of money spent on dealing with marijuana related crimes that is now going to other crimes.
They pointed out crime didn't go down. Fine. All that could mean is that the police etc focused on other crimes instead of the mostly victim-less marijuana crimes from when it used to be illegal.
Even if expenditures on crime don't change the fact that whatever money that was being spent catching, processing, and incarcerating marijuana users and dealers can now be spent on something else seems like a huge win
- ojbyrne 10y agoI suspect that police forces would be loath to unbundle any statistics about marijuana-related crimes because they are going to resist any potential budget cuts from that, and correspondingly, it will take a while for any savings to materialized because of organization resistance.