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McClatchyDC is the Washington-based news bureau of The McClatchy Company. McClatchyDC offers original reporting on political news, with a focus on the White House, Congress and policy initiatives. Its initial AllSides Media Bias Rating™ is Center. The McClatchy Company is a major news publishing company that operates 29 daily newspapers nationwide. It began in 1857 as a small newspaper in Sacramento founded by Native American writer Rollin Ridge. Since 1857, its journalists have won nine Pulitzer Prizes, most recently in 2017 for coverage of the Panama Papers. McClatchyDC began in 2006 after the company acquired Knight Ridder, at the time the country's second-largest newspaper publisher.
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Marijuana is the drug most often linked to crime in the United States, the U.S. drug czar said Thursday, dismissing calls for legalization as a “bumper-sticker approach” that should be avoided.
Gil Kerlikowske, the White House director of national drug-control policy, said a study by his office showed a strong link between drug use and crime. Eighty percent of the adult males arrested for crimes in Sacramento, Calif., last year tested positive for at least one illegal drug. Marijuana was the most commonly detected drug, found in 54 percent of those arrested.
The study found similar results in four other cities: New York, Denver, Atlanta and Chicago. Among the cities, it included examinations of 1,736 urine samples and 1,938 interviews with men who were arrested.