author: Writen by Stephen C. Webster (posted by anonymous)
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a drug reform advocacy group, said that the latest numbers show that marijuana users were arrested last year at a rate of one every 42 seconds. Accounting for all illegal drug users, they added that arrest rate jumps to one every 21 seconds.
In all, the FBI said that law enforcement agencies made 1,531,251 drug-related arrests last year. Approximately 49.5 percent of those arrests — roughly 757,969 — were for marijuana. Of those marijuana arrests, the vast majority, about 87 percent, were for simple possession...
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Hopefully this information will help others to wake up to the inherently oppresive nature of capitalism (profiting off of arresting individuals) & the police (those who do the arresting).