-"Heavy marijuana use may be associated with drug and property crime but not violent crime"

When marijuana is heavily used by adolescences what are the results regarding criminality:

- These children were from the same area which had some variation in wealth but was mostly, impoverished, overcrowded, unemployed and high rates of welfare participation in turn for the most part most indviduals were similar, in terms of lived experiences 

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- This 36-year longitudinal study of a cohort of children from Chicago explores the relationship between adolescent cannabis use and the propensity to commit crime in adulthood.

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- Since the early 1900s Marijuana has been associated with criminality and creating criminals, usually because of racial and societal biases, however this relationship was not expilicty explored until more recent times with more objective scientifc studies

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