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10/08/19-Grizzle “The team felt it was important to apply “robust empirical methods” to parse out the effects of this action on crime in the first years after legalization,” Ruibin Lu, CJRA Expert.

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10/08/19-Reason “The results suggest that marijuana policies and laws have had little effect on crime in Colorado or Washington State,” Ruibin Lu, CJRA Expert.

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10/08/19-Times of CBD “It is important to analyze the effects of the legalization of marijuana on crime for the first two years after its legalization,” Ruibin Lu, CJRA Expert.

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10/08/19-Analytical Cannabis “We were able to get the crime rates data from FBI uniform crime report – from 1999 to 2016, which was the most recent data that we had at the time of the study,” Ruibin Lu, CJRA Expert.

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10/08/19-Phys.org In many ways, the legalization of cannabis constitutes a grand ongoing experiment into how a major public policy initiative does or does not accomplish its expected outcomes,” Ruibin Lu, CJRA Expert.

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10/08/19-Washington State University Insider “In many ways, the legalization of cannabis constitutes a grand ongoing experiment into how a major public policy initiative does or does not accomplish its expected outcomes,” Ruibin Lu, CJRA Expert.

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10/08/19-The Press of Atlantic City “In many ways, the legalization of cannabis constitutes a grand ongoing experiment into how a major public policy initiative does or does not accomplish its expected outcomes,” Ruibin Lu, CJRA Expert.

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10/08/19-GreenRushDaily “In many ways, the legalization of cannabis constitutes a grand ongoing experiment into how a major public policy initiative does or does not accomplish its expected outcomes,” Ruibin Lu, CJRA Expert.

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Eleven states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana. A new study funded by a grant from the National Institute of Justice sought to determine the effect of this legal change on crimes rates. The study, which looked at legalization and sales of recreational cannabis in Colorado and Washington, found minimal to no effect […]

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10/06/19-WYLD FM “At the time there were several witnesses that said that Michael Brown had his hands up in an act of surrender before Darren Wilson shot him,” Jennifer Cobbina, CJRA Expert.

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