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On November 8, 2016, Arkansas voters approved Issue 6, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment, [9] to legalize the medical use of cannabis. [10] [11] A separate measure, the Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act (Issue 7), [12] was disqualified from the ballot 12 days before the election by the Arkansas Supreme Court. [13] [14]
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.
"The Little Rock crisis and postwar black activism in Arkansas." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 56.3 (1997): 273–293. online; Lovett, Bobby L. "African Americans, Civil War, and Aftermath in Arkansas". Arkansas Historical Quarterly 54.3 (1995): 304–358. in JSTOR; Moneyhon, Carl H. "Black Politics in Arkansas during the Gilded Age, 1876–1900."
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 ...
Hayden had been serving a life prison sentence for marijuana cultivation because he was convicted three times for illegal cultivation, triggering the Three-strikes law. His last bust was in Michigan in 1998 for growing nearly 19,000 marijuana plants, after similar busts in 1980 and 1990. [33]
375,000 cannabis plants and 33,480 pounds of harvested marijuana: Largest seizure ever in Los Angeles County, worth over one billion dollars. [31] [32] Oregon State Police: White City, Oregon: 2021: 500,000 pounds of harvested marijuana: More than 100 people were arrested along with the seizure marijuana worth approximately $500 million. [33 ...
Cultivation of cannabis is the production of cannabis infructescences ("buds" or "leaves"). Cultivation techniques for other purposes (such as hemp production) differ.. In the United States, all cannabis products in a regulated market must be grown in the state where they are sold because federal law continues to ban interstate cannabis sales.