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In 2012, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act (Issue 5) qualified for vote on the statewide ballot. The act would have allowed non-profit organizations to grow and sell medical cannabis and additionally permitted patients who live over five miles from a legal dispensary to cultivate a small number of plants on their own property.
The report found that despite marijuana use being roughly equal between blacks and whites, blacks are 3.73 times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession. [167] Tough marijuana policies have also resulted in the disproportionate mass deportation of over 250,000 legal immigrants in the United States. [168]
In a study done by the American Civil Liberties Union, from 2001 to 2010 Black and white people use marijuana at about the same rate. [97] 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.
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.
Authorities say an underground pot-growing operation was hidden in a shipping container and they are searching for six more suspects.
But the Marijuana Business Daily reported in 2021 that 81% of cannabis business owners and founders were white, while Black people made up just 4.3%. “We need reparations in the spaces of ...
Democrats worked to roll back many of the legal gains that Black people had made during Reconstruction, and Black political power in Arkansas was suppressed for nine decades to come. The Reconstruction era in Arkansas was a time of significant progress for African Americans.
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 ...