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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]
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 ...
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.
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]
"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."
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been accused of involvement in the trafficking of illicit drugs.Books and journalistic investigations on the subject that have received general notice include works by the historian Alfred McCoy, professor and diplomat Peter Dale Scott, journalists Gary Webb and Alexander Cockburn, and writer Larry Collins.
Detailed sales logs were required to record marijuana sales. Selling marijuana to any person who had previously paid the annual fee incurred a tax of $1 per ounce or fraction thereof; however, the tax was $100 ($2,206 adjusted for inflation) per ounce or fraction thereof to sell any person who had not registered and paid the annual fee. [37]