I do not know if the “official” statistics support it, but my own observations both professionally and personally over the past few years are that the crime situation in Washington has gotten much worse since marijuana was legalized. Whether it is marijuana or the bad influence of Obama’s policies I do not know for certain.
I just wonder whether there is a clintele for this market Which includes people willing to employ violence to advance their control.
There are still a lot of placess where this is illegal. Could be the violence is because of that.
I stopped visiting Colorado after they legalized marijuana and turned it into a cesspool where all the addicted young freaks came to get high legally and ruin the very nature of a state I used to so dearly love. I bet the type tourism they have nowadays is nothing like they had in the past but I bet they love all those dank crisp tax dollars that reek of marijuana that's sitting in ther banks, that is is they're not having to use it to clean up all the pollution created by their high tourists and new criminal activities.