[Editor’s note: This post is excerpted from this week’s forthcoming NORML weekly media advisory. To…
Tag: marijuana arrests
Police made 853,838 arrests in 2010 for marijuana-related offenses, according to the Federal Bureau of…
The Hill is providing reformers with a valuable service by bringing our message prominently to Capitol Hill, and acting as a mediator in a high profile debate with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
In the New York Times today they of course attack the groups involved in bringing to the public’s attention the department’s overly aggressive and expensive enforcement of what are supposed to be decriminalized cannabis laws, and then make the amazing claim that there were not 350,000 cannabis-related arrests from 1997-2006, but a mere 8,770.