Are homeless people flocking to Seattle to smoke marijuana?

There is no hard evidence in Seattle that more homeless people are moving to the area because marijuana is legal. There may just be more people smoking in public because there is less enforcement, KIRO Radio's Dave Ross says. (AP)Dave Ross heard whispers that there is a link between 

The KIRO Radio host on Seattle's Morning News said that there's a theory that because people aren't hassled for smoking marijuana in public – at least as much as other places – homeless people are gravitating toward the Emerald City.

There is no hard evidence of that in Seattle, however. That's why Dave reached out to the director of St. Francis Center to find out what what's happened since Colorado legalized pot. There have been stories out of Denver, which has seen an increase in homeless people after pot was legalized, Dave explained.

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