Popular Resistance - The total number of persons arrested in the United States for violating marijuana laws rose for the third consecutive year, according to data released by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, police made 663,367 arrests for marijuana-related violations in 2018. That is more than 21 percent higher than the total number of persons arrested for the commission of violent crimes (521,103). Of those arrested for cannabis-related activities, some 90 percent (608,776) were arrested for marijuana possession offenses only.
The year-over-year increase in marijuana arrests comes at the same time that several states, including California, have legalized the adult use of cannabis — leading to a significant decline in marijuana-related arrests in those jurisdictions. It also marks the reversal of a trend of declining arrests that began following the year 2007, when police made a record 872,721 total marijuana-related arrests in the United States.
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As a friend of mine learned when he moved from the legal PNW to legal New England, he rented an RV so he could bring his 3 indoor cats with him. He was a med patient until legalization. He was pulled over in SD, and they found his med stash. The cops were terrible and put him in solitary overnight and sent his cats to the shelter, they also told him to drink out of the toilet when he found the drinking fountain broken. During his legal case he found out from his lawyer that these states with antiquated cannabis laws are having a feeding frenzy arresting people with legal state license plates, in hopes that the legal state people will forget to get rid of their stash before crossing the borders. These non legal states are just profiteering plane and simple.
Statistically speaking, there are probably more marijuana related incidents than violent crimes. Not saying the FBI should continue ramping up marijuana arrests, but I suspect there are more of those "crimes" committed than violent ones.
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