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Other health effects. The KHI analysts also studied how legalizing medical marijuana would affect crime and overall consumption of marijuana. There was not enough evidence for them to conclude that crime would likely increase or decrease post-legalization.
We believe that medical marijuana legalization poses no threat of increased violent crime, Robert Morris, the study's lead author, told The Huffington Post. Morris, associate professor of criminology at UT Dallas, and his colleagues looked at crime rates for all 50 U.S. states from 1990 to 2006.