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Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S.
#7450008 - 09/24/07 11:45 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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September 24, 2007 - Washington, DC, USA
Source: http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7370
Washington, DC: Police arrested a record 829,625 persons for marijuana violations in 2006, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual Uniform Crime Report, released today. This is the largest total number of annual arrests for pot ever recorded by the FBI. Marijuana arrests now comprise nearly 44 percent of all drug arrests in the United States.
"These numbers belie the myth that police do not target and arrest minor marijuana offenders," said NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre, who noted that at current rates, a marijuana smoker is arrested every 38 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 some 738,915 Americans were charged with possession only. The remaining 90,710 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. In past years, roughly 30 percent of those arrested were age 19 or younger.
"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 188 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 marijuana-related arrests with 57 percent of all marijuana-related arrests. The region of America with the least amount of marijuana-related arrests is the West with 30 percent. This latter result is arguably a testament to the passage of various state and local decriminalization efforts over the past several years.”
The total number of marijuana arrests in the U.S. for 2006 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 over 8 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.
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, some 94 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 no greater - and arguably 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."
YEAR MARIJUANA ARRESTS 2006 829,625 2005 786,545 2004 771,608 2003 755,187 2002 697,082 2001 723,627 2000 734,498 1999 704,812 1998 682,885 1997 695,200 1996 641,642 1995 588,963 1994 499,122 1993 380,689 1992 342,314 1991 287,850 1990 326,850
For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director, at (202) 483-5500. For a comprehensive breakdown and analysis of US marijuana arrests, please see NORML's report: "Crimes of Indiscretion: Marijuana Arrests in the United States".
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: DonkeyShell]
#7450041 - 09/24/07 11:58 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well that oughta teach those nasty dope fiends a lesson! I bet it'll sure get those crooks and their deadly narcotics off the street!
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: Divided_Sky]
#7450246 - 09/25/07 01:30 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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FUCKING LEGALIZE IT ALREADY!
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: rajking]
#7450652 - 09/25/07 06:00 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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rajking said: FUCKING LEGALIZE IT ALREADY!
ARE YOU CRAZY MAN!
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: DonkeyShell]
#7450670 - 09/25/07 06:17 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Look at the following graph:

... and then ask yourself, who was president in the US from Jan 1993 to Jan 2001? It amazes me that people want another eight years of Clinton... if you think Bill was bad, just wait until Hillary gets to run our lives for us.
(Source: http://norml.org/)
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: DonkeyShell]
#7450757 - 09/25/07 07:36 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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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 over 8 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,
so basically the Heroin and Coke is on the rise, so they target maryJ?
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: Alion]
#7451180 - 09/25/07 10:06 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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That makes me indignant. I need to find my Walden, wherever it is in this world, grow my entheogenics and just be.
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: Seuss]
#7451450 - 09/25/07 11:24 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: DonkeyShell]
#7451474 - 09/25/07 11:30 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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JohnP
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
#7451559 - 09/25/07 11:54 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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EntheogenicPeace said: Lining up every single person who supports arresting & imprisoning non-violent, responsible drug users, putting a bullet in their heads & then burying them in a mass grave... would be the one genocide that I could support.
Even that is a little much, I don't think anyone should have to die... we should just educate them a bit. Have them smoke a bit for themselves maybe? Then they might see that it's really not nearly as bad as when they sit on their couch drinking a beer. We don't need another genocide.
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
#7451583 - 09/25/07 12:04 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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EntheogenicPeace said: Lining up every single person who supports arresting & imprisoning non-violent, responsible drug users, putting a bullet in their heads & then burying them in a mass grave... would be the one genocide that I could support.
Thanks for giving the pro-prohibition crowd the sound bite they need to demonstrate that drug users are dangerous and a risk to society.
The general population, the one that elects our government and still supports prohibition, is who holds the key to legalization. Legalization won't happen until the general population stops seeing drugs and drug users as a threat to their safety. The whole cause suffers when people make comments like that, or freely call cops murderers and pigs (even if some are), or wear their self-defined "outcast" status as a badge of honor.
The biggest thing the marijuana legalization movement has going for it is that marijuana use is becoming so ubiquitous and public (most notably in California). From the public perspective, it's changing from "them" to "us". Comments like the one above help change it back to "them".
If you want legalization/decriminalization, be a productive, valuable, contributing member of society. At the very least don't make yourself society's enemy, even if you feel society has made you their enemy.
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: DonkeyShell]
#7452013 - 09/25/07 02:14 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is fucking ridiculous. All pot smokers are eventually going to have to consolidate into one area to be able to smoke legally.
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: pokermush]
#7452026 - 09/25/07 02:19 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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"The total number of marijuana arrests in the U.S. for 2006 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."
Thats the most fuckin bullshit I've heard all week. Why dont they get it!?
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: sixletterscurvy]
#7452146 - 09/25/07 02:54 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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i wonder how many shroomery memembers were are part of this statistic
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: usg543]
#7452609 - 09/25/07 05:10 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Those are numbers the government should be ashamed of.
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: pokermush]
#7453024 - 09/25/07 07:12 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Marijuana Arrests for 2006 Top Record High - 829,625 People Charged in the U.S. [Re: pokermush]
#7453047 - 09/25/07 07:22 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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