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Two Eugene men have been arrested after they were discovered to be running an illegal marijuana growing operation out of a property near Pleasant Hill. ... More than 1,900 growing marijuana plants ...
An ACLU analysis of arrests from 2010 to 2018 found that Black people were 3.6 times more likely than white people to be arrested for marijuana possession despite similar rates of use.
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 ...
(The national rate was 256 per 100,000 people). [8] In that year, marijuana arrests made up 49.9% of all drug possession arrests in the state. [9] In Maryland, Black people were 2.9 times more likely than Whites to be arrested for marijuana possession. [10]
Nationwide, Black people are 3.6 times more likely than white people to be arrested for marijuana, despite similar usage rates. [98] Racial disparities vary in severity among states. For example, Colorado has the lowest disparity with Black people being 1.5 more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana.
Efforts to help those most affected participate in — and profit from — the legal marijuana sector have been halting […] The post The drug war devastated Black and other minority communities.
A 1995 Bureau of Justice Statistics report found that from 1991 to 1993, 16% of those who sold drugs were black, but 49% of those arrested for doing so were black. [87] A 2006 study concluded that blacks were significantly overrepresented for those arrested for drug delivery offenses in Seattle. The same study found that it was a result of law ...
Authorities say an underground pot-growing operation was hidden in a shipping container and they are searching for six more suspects.