Topic: Arrest rates

Fewer marijuana charges in Urbana after possession policy change

• NY attorney general’s office investigating Buffalo police drug checkpoints
• ACLU leader: Legalizing marijuana a “racial justice issue”
• Al Sharpton calls medical marijuana use “a civil right”
• Over 5% of all arrests in U.S. are for weed
• D.C. public weed use arrests nearly tripled last year
• New strategies for helping cannabiz owners from communities hit hard by war on drugs
• Oakland reserves marijuana biz permits for people who served time for weed
• Despairing the disparity: Racial gap in arrests remains post-legalization