California Has Arrested Almost Half a Million People for Weed in the Last 10 Years
A new report released by the Drug Policy Alliance Thursday reveals that nearly 500,000 people have been arrested on charges related to marijuana in the last decade. Nearly 9,000 felony arrests related to weed were made in 2015 alone in California, according to the report. Most disturbingly, the report found that black and Latino people are much more likely to be arrested for marijuana in California.
The numbers of arrests may seem surprising to some, given that the state has long had (relatively) lax marijuana laws. In 1996, California passed Prop. 215, a law that enables patients to receive a prescription for medical marijuana for a broad and varied number of medical complaints. But even twenty years after the law was put into place, California has still been racking up arrests for marijuana charges, particularly among the state's black and Latino population.
Specifically, the report found that,...
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