The study’s conclusion: “Apart from anecdotal reports, we did not find definitive evidence that links increased homelessness to legal cannabis. ” Rather, “the major factors leading to homelessness are a lack of affordable housing, inability to find work, and family crises. “
Local law enforcement disagreed. Pueblo Police Chief Troy Davenport offered his own anecdote a day after the CSU-Pueblo’s findings were delivered to Pueblo’s county commissioners. ” come to either extensively get jobs in the marijuana field or, as it ends up, most of the time to just get marijuana,” he said. “There’s clearly a relationship between homelessness in Colorado and access to marijuana,” he told KRDO, “and I think that would account for the fact that Colorado for the most part, and Washington state, have higher-than-average homelessness. The epidemic has gotten so bad that Pueblo County is considering