African Americans in the city of Buffalo (population 257,000) are disproportionately arrested for low-level marijuana possession offenses…
Topic: Arrests
El Paso, TX: El Paso county Commissioners have unanimously approved a plan to issue summonses to first-time, low level marijuana possession offenders in lieu of making a criminal arrest.
African Americans in Pennsylvania are eight times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession offenses
Seizures of indoor and outdoor cannabis crops reported by the US Drug Enforcement Administration rose in 2016
Washington, DC: Tabulations calculating the percentage of annual marijuana arrests nationwide are absent from the…
Eighty-seven percent of low level marijuana arrestees in New York City are either African Americans or Latinos.
African Americans are arrested in New Jersey for violating marijuana possession laws at approximately three times the rate of whites and this disparity is rising…
African Americans in Virginia are arrested for violating marijuana possession laws at more than three times the rates of whites and this disparity is rising.