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Actually, they arrested Tlong 872,721 times
Washington, DC: Police arrested a record 872,721 persons for marijuana violations in 2007, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual Uniform Crime Report, released today. This is the largest total number of annual arrests for cannabis ever recorded by the FBI.
Cannabis arrests now comprise nearly 47.5 percent of all drug arrests in the United States.
"These numbers belie the myth that police do not target and arrest minor cannabis offenders," said NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre, who noted that at current rates, a cannabis consumer is arrested every 37 seconds in America. "This effort is a tremendous waste of criminal justice resources that diverts law enforcement personnel away from focusing on serious and violent crime, including the war on terrorism."
Of those charged with marijuana violations, approximately 89 percent, 775,138 Americans were charged with possession only. The remaining 97,583 individuals were charged with "sale/manufacture," a category that includes all cultivation offenses, even those where the marijuana was being grown for personal or medical use. Nearly three in four of those arrested are under age 30.
"Present policies have done little if anything to decrease marijuana's availability or dissuade youth from trying it," St. Pierre said, noting young people in the U.S. now frequently report that they have easier access to pot than alcohol or tobacco.
"Two other major points standout from today’s record marijuana arrests: Overall, there has been a dramatic 195 percent increase in marijuana arrests in the last 15 years -- yet the public's access to pot remains largely unfettered and the self-reported use of cannabis remains largely unchanged. Second, America’s Midwest is decidedly the hotbed for cannabis arrests with over 60 percent of all cannabis-related arrests. The region of America with the least amount of cannabis arrests is the West with 29 percent. This latter result is arguably a testament to the passage of various state and local decriminalization efforts over the past several years."
"Of further note, this year the Midwest saw a 13.3% increase in cannabis sales/cultivation-related arrests, while the West saw a 14% increase in possession-related cannabis arrests."
The total number of marijuana arrests in the U.S. for 2007 far exceeded the total number of arrests in the U.S. for all violent crimes combined, including murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
Annual marijuana arrests have nearly tripled since the early 1990s.
"Arresting hundreds of thousands of Americans who smoke marijuana responsibly needlessly destroys the lives of otherwise law abiding citizens," St. Pierre said, adding that nearly 9 million Americans have been arrested on marijuana charges in the past ten years. During this same time, arrests for cocaine and heroin have declined sharply, implying that increased enforcement of marijuana laws is being achieved at the expense of enforcing laws against the possession and trafficking of more dangerous drugs.In fact, October 10, 2008 will mark the arrest of the 20 millionth cannabis consumer arrested under cannabis prohibition, circa 1937.
St. Pierre concluded: "Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers between $10 billion and $12 billion annually and has led to the arrest of nearly 20 million Americans. Nevertheless, nearly 100 million Americans acknowledge having used marijuana during their lives. It makes no sense to continue to treat nearly half of all Americans as criminals for their use of a substance that poses far fewer health risks than alcohol or tobacco. A better and more sensible solution would be to tax and regulate cannabis in a manner similar to alcohol and tobacco."
Actually, they arrested Tlong 872,721 times
those stats will look great to the task masters in the govt. let's pour more into it!
Nothing needs to be said except...
Treat it like alchohol.
Legalize it, tax it, if you own a business and have a zero tolerence policy about being drunk or having drank on the job, treat this the same.
Waste of time and resources. This is as fruitless and stupid as prohibition.
The only thing if you legalize it, Nancy Botwin goes out of business, and Weeds gets canceled.
i wish they spent as much time and energy busting the s that break into cars, residences, and such.
I've had my house broken into 5 times in the last 12 years.
The cops just treat us southsiders like . them.
the #1 cash crop in the world. the gov would make a killing if they legalized and taxed it...and could easily pay off the national debt
Thats assuming the government operated correctly and would do that.
But they wouldn't and don't.
They would blow it on worthless BS like they do now.
well it would atleast save them the hassle of having to do uncons utional raids on legal californian distribution centers
Last edited by The Reckoning; 09-19-2008 at 03:26 PM.
Is Tpark's girlfriend using his laptop or did Tpark become a comic over night?
Good material S A!
and then they could more on to more serious issues.. like getting the NFL network on Time Warner Cable!!!
Or doing proclimations like praising Brett favre's career.
id rather have them argue about that than believing we have a unitary system
That is seriously a much better way to keep it out of kids hands too. In HS I had much easier access to weed and coke than alcohol, as dealers never made you show ID or get someone who's 21 to buy for you.
Yup.
Thats the ed up thing.
Its harder to get a bottle of beer, that to a kid might taste like and won't like it, than get an 8 ball that the kid snorts up his nose, gets hooked on, then starts robbing houses and holding up old ladies for 10 dollar bills on cherry street.
Weed is legal in Ontario? I didn't know that.
The little black section ... Varies by religion...
Speaking of which. Does anyone have the number for a good dealer? Mine got arrested yesterday.
Region.The little black section ... Varies by religion...
PM mouse.
OMG, T Park and I agree on something.
Its hard to tax something that can be grown in a backyard
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