It’s time for the second installment of our new Cannabuzz series Prohibition Arguments, Cannalyzed™, in which I examine cases made by cannabis prohibitionists, refute them with facts and opinions, and am rewarded by angry emails and comments from aforementioned prohibitionists telling me what a stupid, useless stoner I am. Serenity now.
ARGUMENT: Cannabis dispensaries attract crime to the surrounding neighborhood.
I’m not really sure how this came to be an argument. If it was “opium dens attract crime,” I might agree. But—and this is an important distinction that some prohibitionists don’t make, bless their hearts—dispensaries are not anything like opium dens, or crack houses, or meth mini-malls, or heroin hideaways.
Let’s look at three recent studies about cannabis and crime.
