passmethelid
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Legalized marijuana is making it harder for police to search your car
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...king-it-harder-for-police-to-search-your-car/
New data on traffic stops in Colorado and Washington underscore this point: After the states legalized pot, traffic searches declined sharply across the board. That's according to the Open Policing Project at Stanford University, which has been analyzing public data of over 100 million traffic stops and searches since 2015.
https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/findings/
Police pull over more than 50,000 drivers on a typical day, more than 20 million motorists every year.
“After marijuana use was legalized, Colorado and Washington saw dramatic drops in search rates,” the study's authors explain. “That’s because many searches are drug-related. Take away marijuana as a crime and searches go down.”
lets get this legalized so police stop harassing patients.