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Timeline of Gallup polls in US on legalizing marijuana. [1]In the United States, cannabis is legal in 39 of 50 states for medical use and 24 states for recreational use. At the federal level, cannabis is classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, determined to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use, prohibiting its use for any purpose. [2]
These marijuana-related arrests now account for over half of all drug-related arrests in the United States. [154] These arrests tend to be racially imbalanced as a black person is 3.73 times more likely to be arrested than a white person for marijuana-related charges, [ 154 ] despite research that suggests fairly equal usage rates between the ...
The most common marijuana charge — possession of up to a half ounce, a misdemeanor — reached a 10-year low of just under 5,000 charges in 2023, a 76% decline from the 2014 peak of 20,800 charges.
Drugged-driving arrests connected to marijuana use have declined in the three years since New York’s cannabis legalization in 2021, as questions linger about efforts to keep stoned drivers off ...
Marijuana arrests in Charlotte. Most interactions involving marijuana do not result in an arrest, Jennings wrote in an op-ed published in The Charlotte Observer, but “an individual’s actions ...
Marijuana arrests comprise almost one-half (48.3%) of all drug arrests reported in the U.S. [95] According to the American Civil Liberties Union, there were 8.2 million marijuana arrests from 2001 to 2010, and 88% of those arrests were just for having marijuana with them. [96]
Over 4,200 people have been charged since the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office announced it would stop prosecuting low-level marijuana possession. Miami-Dade halted weed prosecutions, but ...
375,000 cannabis plants and 33,480 pounds of harvested marijuana: Largest seizure ever in Los Angeles County, worth over one billion dollars. [31] [32] Oregon State Police: White City, Oregon: 2021: 500,000 pounds of harvested marijuana: More than 100 people were arrested along with the seizure marijuana worth approximately $500 million. [33 ...