Topic: Drug arrests

After sounding alarm about increased crime, Sessions credits Trump with crime rate drop in first half of 2017

• Drug arrests at Canadian border checkpoints challenged in court
• Over 5% of all arrests in U.S. are for weed
• Trump’s blame of Obama for opioid epidemic included skewed weed stats
• Sessions isn’t making America safer. He might be making it more dangerous
• Jeff Sessions’ drug policies will expand black market, not reduce crime
• New strategies for helping cannabiz owners from communities hit hard by war on drugs
• This judge and prosecutor warn of “great suffering” with Sessions’ return to mandatory minimum sentences
• Sessions’ potential new drug policies could reverse trend of declining prison populations
• President Barack Obama just commuted the sentences of more than 100 people. Here are their names
• Watch Jay Z’s powerful New York Times visual op-ed: ‘The war on drugs is an epic fail’