Crimes and Cannabis Sales

During our trivial time in 2020 and 2021 when we were recovering from being locked in our homes and some were even still scared to leave their homes. But some of these people were not scared, some did not care and some lived their lives the same. Life was very different and strange. Each day came with our own challenge and we never knew what the next day was going to bring us. But to relate it back to us more. I went through a lot of data that was in Colorado. Since that is where I was. I thought it would be most interesting to see what was going on close to me. Some people had an even harder time with the events of those years, some turned to working out at home, some learned to go outdoors and love that. But some learned to love drugs and it led them down a path that was detrimental to their livelihood. I compiled data from a few different sources to uncover if there was a correlation between the deaths of these years and drug and narcotic related violations. I also brought in the sales of cannabis to see if there was anything related in that category. At this point in time cannabis or weed however you want to refer to it. Was for the most part legal. So at the federal level it is not legal. So there are interesting gray areas in the law where it is legal. But you can still get in trouble for them. But for narcotics those are all illegal and possession of some can end with you in some serious trouble. For each data set I chose to look at the top ten highest in each category. So for the crimes I sorted it so it would show the top ten drug and narcotic violations. This was showing the people who were arrested and then booked for carrying, possessing or using too much of a drug. This could include cannabis or other harder drugs such as cocaine, heroine, and all the different sorts of narcotics. First I went through the crimes that had happened in 2020 and 2021. I sorted them through seeing which county had the highest drug/narcotic violations which would help to narrow the focus of what was going on at the time. I was left with both 2020s top ten violations and 2021s top ten violations. The data set I had showed Crimes against person, crimes against property, drug equipment violations, and drug and narcotic violations. Out of the top ten It showed Adams county multiple times being the highest for multiple months. Denver was second place with a few violations a few months ago. Jefferson county was on it for one month and El Paso county was also in it a few times. Adams county consists of ten big cities to the north and north east of Denver. It covers a lot of land. The top number of offenses reached three hundred and fifty three violations in January of 2020. Compared to 2021 the highest number was two hundred and fifty seven. Which was in Adams county in the month of september. Interesting that in 2020 at the beginning of it the drug violations were at an all time high. Denver’s cannabis sales in 2020 were 55,559,414 and had a drug and narcotic violation rate of three hundred and fifty in January. Adams in 2020 had a drug and narcotic rate of three hundred and fifty three in January of 2020. With a cannabis sale of 13,245,628. This is much lower than Denver. Denver in 2021 had a sales rate of 49,268,036 in April of 2021. The drug and narcotic violation was one hundred and ninety nine. Much lower than 2020. Adams in 2021 had a rate of two hundred and fifty seven drug and narcotic violations in September of 2021 much lower than the previous year. The retailers for 2021 in Adams county were 14,056,356 and increased in sales. 2020 also had higher months of sales of retail cannabis then 2021 did. The city was the same as Denver in 2020 and 2021 was the highest 10 retailers by far. Now that we look at the data we see that for Adams county sales increased and the drug and narcotic violations decreased by quite a bit. In Denver sales and drug and narcotic violations decreased. So for smaller suburban cities around Colorado there were less arrests once more cannabis sales increased. But in Denver the sales decreased and so did the drug and narcotic violations.