[Occupymendocino] Marijuana Arrests Now Exceed Arrests for Violent Crime

[Richard Karch]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/15648-focus-marijuana-arrests-now-exceed-arrests-for-violent-crime


Marijuana Arrests Now Exceed Arrests for Violent Crime
By Jason Sattler, National Memo
21 January 13
 
n 2011, arrests for marijuana exceeded arrests for violent crime by more than 100,000, according to a report from the FBI.

Though marijuana laws have become liberalized - with 18 states legalizing the drug for medicinal use and two now explicitly allowing recreational use as the result of ballot initiatives - marijuana arrests have doubled since 1980, according to this analysis from the Huffington Post:


Marijuana is still illegal under federal law, presenting a law-enforcement challenge. Late last year, President Obama said that his administration would not go after recreational users of the drug.

"We've got bigger fish to fry," Obama said. "It would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going after recreational users in states that have determined that it's legal."

A bare majority of Americans support regulating the drug like alcohol. That majority is substantially larger among young people, as it has been for decades...

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