Marijuanas Impact on Public Safety – Kansas City Missouri Police Chief
Intoxicated Driving - Marijuana legalization has a negative impact on intoxicated driving. (After recreational marijuana was legalized in California, marijuana-related traffic deaths increased 151%.) Marijuana’s Impact on Public Safety – Kansas City Missouri Police Chief https://kcpdchief.blogspot.com/2019/09/marijuanas-impact-on-public-safety.html
The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact
Volume 6, September 2019 Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6913861/· Since recreational marijuana was legalized, traffic deaths in which drivers tested positive for marijuana increased 109 percent while all Colorado traffic deaths increased 31 percent.
· Since recreational marijuana was legalized, traffic deaths involving drivers who tested positive for marijuana more than doubled from 55 in 2013 to 115 people killed in 2018.
· This equates to one person killed every 3 days in 2018 compared to one person killed every 6½ days in 2013.
· Since recreational marijuana was legalized, the percentage of all Colorado traffic deaths that were marijuana-related increased from 15 percent in 2013 to 23 percent in 2018.
Colorado Warns NM, This story aired
in KOB TV on Sept. 7, 2018, reporter was
Kassi Nelson
Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith said since Colorado decriminalized
marijuana, Fort Collins has become a magnet for transients. “A large percent of those come to us with
serious criminal histories,” Sheriff Smith said. “It's very typical to hear
from them, ‘You know what? We came here for the marijuana.” Sheriff Smith said 1/3 of the county jail’s
inmates are homeless transients. “We saw
an increase in jail population up until this year, every year by just about 50
inmates,” he said.
Video Link: ER doctor in Pueblo, CO, talks about impact of recreational cannabis in her community.
https://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/programs/social-costs-recreational-marijuana-colorado
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