Peter Reuter

University of Maryland Website

Peter Reuter is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Public Policy and Criminology at the University of Maryland. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. Professor Reuter won the 2019 Stockholm Prize in Criminology.

Voting History

Marijuana reform

Pardoning federal convictions for simple possession of marijuana will have meaningful social benefits that exceed any social costs.

Vote Confidence
Strongly Agree 10
Median Survey Vote Median Survey Confidence
Agree 8
Comments

It is hard to identify any social costs.

Pardoning state convictions for simple possession of marijuana will have meaningful social benefits that exceed any social costs.

Vote Confidence
Strongly Agree 9
Median Survey Vote Median Survey Confidence
Agree 8
Comments

The loss of benefits and barriers to employment consequent on such convictions has never made any sense.

Moving marijuana from a Schedule I drug to a less-restrictive schedule or legalizing it at the federal level would have meaningful social benefits that exceed any social costs.

Vote Confidence
Agree 6
Median Survey Vote Median Survey Confidence
Agree 8
Comments

Not comfortable with having two such different and distinct policy options in one question. Schedule 1 is a relatively simple decision. Legalizing is much more complex. I am generally in favor on the basis of evidence from legalization so far but believe that long-term effects are still hard to predict.