How Did New York City Become the Pot-Arrest Capital of the Country?

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On the one hand, marijuana is practically legal—more mainstream, accessorized, and taken for granted than ever before. On the other, kids are getting busted in New York City in record numbers. Guess which kids.
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9 comments // How Did New York City Become the Pot-Arrest Capital of the Country?

  • hunzedog
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      hunzedog  

    • the only problem with growing your own shit is if you get caught its Mandatory Federal Minimums. And you will be a Felon for the rest of your life. no vote! no gun! no student loans! no shit...!..

    • 5 months ago
  • ThresholdBroken
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      ThresholdBroken  

    • That's why I grow my own spirits and cannabis in my own place. Also, many of these folks probably got caught in the act or did it outside. I doubt they were in their homes minding their business.

      Grow your OWN shit!......

    • 5 months ago
  • TrilLogic
  • DreSandoval
  • Gephoria
  • hunzedog
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      hunzedog  

    • they only average about 750,000 arrests a year.......last year was 850,000 arrests. this year they are set to break a million...to bad one of them wasnt you or some of your friends.you might have more compassion if your rights have been shit on !

    • 5 months ago
  • outtheinside
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      outtheinside  
    • hunzedog:

      well now that you've made an incorrect assumption, i'll have to call you out on it. i was arrested in 2005 for possession of marijuana in a Houston suburb. i was also arrested this january for a public intoxication in a border town- even though at the time i was legal to drink, on a private apartment complex road, and inside of a vehicle. my rights were shit on for the PI but not so much for the POM, so there goes your whole theory of lacking compassion... my comments were about the lack of current and not misleading evidence. i like the point you're trying to make but to make it with that article is weak. like i said about that growth you mention, you have to account for population growth or that number doesn't tell you a thing - the real rate of change of incarceration. also, i'd like you to send the link of where your numbers came from.

    • 5 months ago
  • outtheinside
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      outtheinside  

    • This really isn't current news. The article may be new, but all of the information is many years old. How about an update of the last 4 years. I see the graph was selected to end conveniently at the peak in 2005 when much decriminalization legislation was passed across the U.S.

      A side note for whoever created that graph, whenever you talk about growth in entire population of anything (in this case incarceration), you have to control for the growth of population or you really haven't proved anything... It's not that I'm saying that huge jump isn't legit - just that statistically it's not accurate without the control.

    • 5 months ago
  • hunzedog
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      hunzedog  
    • outtheinside:

      620,000 people have been arrested this year for Cannabis. only 8,000 were jailed......Law Enforcement Against Prohibiton has a ticker half way down the side on the left. if you need better stats.

    • 5 months ago
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