U.S. Police Arrest Someone For Marijuana Every 42 Seconds

[Luminous Animal]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/30/1108441/us-police-arrest-someone-for-marijuana-every-42-seconds/?mobile=nc

FBI statistics from 2011 show that the War on Drugs is going strong, with more people arrested for drug crimes than anything else. U.S. police arrest someone for a marijuana crime every 42 seconds, and 87 percent of those are for mere possession. These numbers are slightly down from the last two years, but drug crimes still represent more than eight percent of all arrests.

[DrummerMan]

1. It's such a shame.

All this waste over a God-given, completely non-toxic, benign and helpful herb.

[cthulu2016]

2. How stoned do you have to be to get arrested every 42 seconds?

<joke>

[Scuba]

3. But don't you feel safer? No? Me either.

[msongs]

4. police protecting their own jobs by raising money off pot busts nt

[lpbk2713]

5. Law enforcement is all about revenue, has been for years.

Just take red light cams. Practically a license to steal for them with hardly any effort expended at all.

[Luminous Animal]

6. Some links to organizations that are fighting this insanity...

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
http://www.leap.cc/ (also a link to their partner page http://www.leap.cc/partner-organizations/ )

Drug Policy Alliance
http://www.drugpolicy.org/

Students for Sensible Drug Policy
http://ssdp.org/

Americans For Safe Access
http://safeaccessnow.org/

Marijuana Majority
http://marijuanamajority.com/

The November Coalition
http://www.november.org/

Marijuana Policy Project
http://mpp.org/

NORML
http://norml.org/

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. Don't forget Stopthedrugwar.org and its publication, the Drug War Chronicle.

Covering all the drug reform news for the past decade or so.

[jenw2]

7. And don't ignroe the gun crime created by anti-sensible laws

We have many more guns thus more violence because of this.

[Comrade Grumpy]

9. Next Tuesday could be the beginning of the end for pot prohibition.

Three states will vote on legalizing it--Colorado, Oregon, and Washington--and it looks likely to win in two--Colorado and Washington.