40 percent of drug arrests in US for marijuana

Posted on July 30, 2008
Filed Under United States, global drug trade |

According to Foreign Policy Magazine, in the United States “roughly 40 percent of the country’s 1.8 million annual drug arrests are for cannabis possession.”

Source: Ethan Nadelmann, “Think Again: Drugs,” Foreign Policy, Sept/Oct 2007.

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One Response to “40 percent of drug arrests in US for marijuana”

  1. Levente on November 23rd, 2008 6:52 pm

    wow..makes you think if they legalized it cops would have much more important things to focus on..

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