Crime
DUI
Gambling
Drugs & overdoses
Tap a state on any map.
Cannabis law, for comparison
Every state, compared
Tap a column to sort| State | Cannabis | Crime | DUI | Gambling | Drugs | Overlap |
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How to read this. For each state we check its latest ~100 news headlines (about three days) and count how many are about crime, DUI, gambling, and drugs or overdoses. The overlap score averages the four shares and scales them 0 to 100 against the highest state. This measures what is being reported, which is not the same as what is happening: big news markets and one big story can move it. It is a starting point, not a verdict.
Official numbers: FBI Crime Data Explorer · NHTSA FARS (DUI deaths) · CDC overdose deaths · National Council on Problem Gambling.