{"id":39456,"date":"2025-03-13T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=39456"},"modified":"2025-03-13T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:43:07","slug":"atlantas-decriminalization-of-marijuana-led-to-a-reduction-in-violent-crime-new-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=39456","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta\u2019s Decriminalization Of Marijuana \u2018Led To A Reduction In Violent Crime,\u2019 New Research Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cannabis-2773112_1280-e1550522099138-400x240-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">A new study on Atlanta\u2019s move to decriminalize marijuana concludes that, contrary to warnings from some critics, the policy change in fact led to a decrease in violent crime as police turned their attention to more urgent matters. The research looks at crime surrounding the city\u2019s 2017 reduction of penalties around the simple possession of [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marijuanamoment.net\/atlantas-decriminalization-of-marijuana-led-to-a-reduction-in-violent-crime-new-research-shows\/\">Atlanta\u2019s Decriminalization Of Marijuana \u2018Led To A Reduction In Violent Crime,\u2019 New Research Shows<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study on Atlanta\u2019s move to decriminalize marijuana concludes that, contrary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2104,39,293],"class_list":["post-39456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-atlanta","tag-cannabis","tag-crime","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39459,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39456\/revisions\/39459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}