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US: Report: Crime Unaffected by Legal Pot
ccguide Saturday 30 Nov 2002 Pubdate: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 Source: Post-Star, The (NY) Section: Morning Briefing Page: A2, left two columns Copyright: 2002 Glens Falls Newspapers Inc. Contact: Website: http://www.poststar.net/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1068 Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal) REPORT: CRIME UNAFFECTED BY LEGAL POT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Law enforcement officials in four of the states that allow medical use of marijuana say the laws have had minimal impact on crime-fighting, although they at times complicate prosecution of drug cases, a congressional report said Friday. The report by the General Accounting Office said that only a small fraction of the people in Oregon, Hawaii and Alaska used marijuana for medical purposes. The results in California, the fourth state studied were limited to only four counties and no statewide data was available. Some law enforcement officials said that while crime-fighting was not harmed, the laws allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana at times has complicated efforts to seize illegal marijuana or to prosecute some cases, according to the GAO report. The GAO examined only four of the eight states that have allowed medical uses for marijuana. The other states are Nevada, Colorado, Washington and Maine. - --- MAP posted-by: Jackl
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