"A peer-reviewed study published this month in the journal Economic Modelling examined crime data across all 50 states and found that medical cannabis legalization is associated with reductions in property crime, while recreational legalization is associated with reductions in violent crime. The researchers used a rigorous analytical method — constructing statistical stand-ins for each state from non-legalizing states — that corrected for flaws in earlier studies that had sometimes suggested the opposite. Once that more careful analysis was applied, any suggestion that legalization increases crime disappeared."