-"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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- The above study explores the relationship between cannabis use and propensity to commit crime through a 36 year longitudinal study of group of children from Chicago

Ohio State University, Columbus

- 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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