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Subject: Youth crime rate drops thanks to marijuana decriminalization

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Between 2010 and 2011, California experienced a drastic 20 percent decrease in juvenile crime--bringing the underage crime rate to the lowest level since the state started keeping records in 1954.

According to a recently released study, much of that improvement can be credited to the decriminalization of marijuana.

The study, entitled "California Youth Crime Plunges to All-Time Low" and released by the San Francisco-based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, looked at the number of people under the age of 18 who were arrested in the state over the past eight decades. The research not only found juvenile crime to be at its lowest level ever but, in the wake of then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signing a bill reducing the punishment for possessing a small amount of marijuana from a misdemeanor to simply an infraction, the drop in rates was particularity significant.

In that one-year period, the number of arrests for violent crimes dropped by 16 percent, homicide went down by 26 percent and drug arrests decreased by nearly 50 percent.

The category of drug arrests showed decreases in every type of crime; however, the vast majority of the drop resulted from far fewer arrests for marijuana possession. In 2010, marijuana possession accounted for 64 percent of all drug arrests, and in 2011, that number decreased to only 46 percent.


It's very interesting to see some of the actual effects of the decriminalization of marijuana. People are always pulling theories out of their asses as to what happens if it is decriminalized, but here's some hard data. People are always arguing about whether drugs should or shouldn't be legalized, but now we can say "forget all that conjecture about what ifs, here's what happens in actuality".

I'm surprised at the major drop in homicides. I wonder if anything else is responsible for that drop.

  • 12.01.2012 8:13 PM PDT

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It's -blam!- ing sad how people have to use drugs in order to not break the law.

  • 12.01.2012 8:15 PM PDT
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You know why it drops? Because being arrested for possessing a drug that does not harm anyone directly is stupid. Major drop in homicides is possibly the constant effort by cities to suppress the need for gangs. Such as signing up children in outside of school activities.

  • 12.01.2012 8:16 PM PDT

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That's because using marijuana isn't a crime anymore.

  • 12.01.2012 8:16 PM PDT

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Posted by: Rayzor1995
It's -blam!- ing sad how people have to use drugs in order to not break the law.

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...and America drops down to number 25 on the intelligence scale.

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Posted by: Rayzor1995
It's -blam!- ing sad how people have to use drugs in order to not break the law.



its like you shoved your hand into my -blam!- and pulled the words right out.

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Posted by: Rayzor1995
It's -blam!- ing sad how people have to use drugs in order to not break the law.


Since it's legal criminal gangs have taken a huge hit, and there are no longer as many violent rivalries among drug dealers. That's probably the biggest contributer to the lower homicide rate.

[Edited on 12.01.2012 8:19 PM PST]

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Posted by: Jet Wave
That's because using marijuana isn't a crime anymore.

  • 12.01.2012 8:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: IlluminatiNWO
You know why it drops? Because being arrested for possessing a drug that does not harm anyone directly is stupid. Major drop in homicides is possibly the constant effort by cities to suppress the need for gangs. Such as signing up children in outside of school activities.
This also, ITT: People brainwashed by DARE.

  • 12.01.2012 8:19 PM PDT


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Posted by: Jet Wave
That's because using marijuana isn't a crime anymore.

  • 12.01.2012 8:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: IlluminatiNWO
You know why it drops? Because being arrested for possessing a drug that does not harm anyone directly is stupid.

  • 12.01.2012 8:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: Rayzor1995
It's -blam!- ing sad how people have to use drugs in order to not break the law.


Since it's legal criminal gangs have taken a huge hit, and there are no longer as many violent rivalries among drug dealers.

I find it disappointing that criminal gangs have to be high in order to be more calm and think more "rationally." Their common sense isn't enough to keep them from breaking the law and hurting others; apparently, drugs are their only answer.

  • 12.01.2012 8:20 PM PDT