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The number of federal offenders sentenced for simple possession of marijuana has declined steadily from more than 2,000 in fiscal year 2014 to 145 in fiscal year 2021, according to a 2023 report ...
Over 4,200 people have been charged since the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office announced it would stop prosecuting low-level marijuana possession. Miami-Dade halted weed prosecutions, but ...
Drugged-driving arrests connected to marijuana use have declined in the three years since New York’s cannabis legalization in 2021, as questions linger about efforts to keep stoned drivers off ...
Six years ago, CMPD made over 100 arrests with the only charge being possession of marijuana, Jennings said. In 2022, there were 10 arrests for the same singular charge, and in 2023 through ...
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 ...
Marijuana arrests comprise almost one-half (48.3%) of all drug arrests reported in the U.S. [95] According to the American Civil Liberties Union, there were 8.2 million marijuana arrests from 2001 to 2010, and 88% of those arrests were just for having marijuana with them. [96]
The move by Biden puts the federal government on par with other big cities like New York that have been moving toward decriminalizing low-level marijuana arrests for years.
In the year before weed became legal, New Jersey police officers made nearly 20,000 marijuana possession arrests – more than 54 per day. In 2017, there were nearly 38,000 arrests, according to ...