A recent study done by the University of California, San Jose State University, and the University of Kansas concluded that “mean property and violent crime rates within 100 foot buffers of tobacco shops and alcohol outlets, but not Medical Marijuana Dispensaries (MMD), substantially exceeded community wide mean crime rates and rates found around grocery/convenience stores. Thus study findings provide the first empirical evidence that tobacco shops may constitute public health threats that associate with crime and violence in US low income urban communities of color.”
In a separate 2017 study in Los Angeles of dispensary operations reported that “open dispensaries provide $30K per year in social benefit in terms of larcenies prevented.”
As far back as 2012, there was a federally funded study which found ” There were no observed cross-sectional associations between the density of medical marijuana dispensaries and either violent or property crime rates in this study. These results suggest that the density of medical marijuana dispensaries may not be associated with crime rates or that other factors, such as measures dispensaries take to reduce crime (i.e., doormen, video cameras), may increase guardianship such that it deters possible motivated offenders.”
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