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The rise of the syndrome in the past two decades coincides with the expansion of marijuana legalization in the United States. According to data from the nonprofit Health Care Cost Institute, cannabis-related diagnoses among individuals under 65 with employer-paid insurance increased by over 50 percent nationwide between 2016 and 2022, rising ...
These marijuana-related arrests now account for over half of all drug-related arrests in the United States. [154] These arrests tend to be racially imbalanced as a black person is 3.73 times more likely to be arrested than a white person for marijuana-related charges, [154] despite research that suggests fairly equal usage rates between the two ...
On January 1, 2008 more than 1 in 100 adults in the United States were in prison or jail. [7] [8] Total U.S. incarceration peaked in 2008. [5] The U.S. incarceration rate was the highest in the world in 2008. [4] It is no longer the highest rate. [9] The United States has one of the highest rates of female incarceration. [10]
Hover over a country for the data. [13] A non-interactive map is below. Lifetime prevalence of cannabis use among all adults (aged 15 to 64 years old) in nationwide surveys among the general population. Data taken from European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (see Commons image page for latest sourcing info). See the table for ...
New research based on data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, published Wednesday in the journal Addiction, compares Americans' use of cannabis and alcohol over the past 40 years.
Further analysis of the data show: The most common marijuana charge — possession of up to a half ounce, a misdemeanor — reached a 10-year low of just under 5,000 charges in 2023, a 76% decline ...
Table has possession and sales breakdown, total drug arrests, violent crime arrests, property crime arrests, and total arrests of all kinds. Since the 1980 number is different between the sources, the Drug War Facts number is used due to the detailed listing of sources. Compare cannabis arrest numbers with other categories of arrests: United ...
Last year, drugged driving was the top-level charge in 1,771 arrests across New York, a less than 1% increase from the prior year, state data show. But that is down about 20% from the 2,225 ...