Vansterdam Blog » marijuana united states http://vansterdamclothing.com/blog Cannabis Culture Discussed Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:07:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How Many Americans are Arrested for Marijuana? http://vansterdamclothing.com/blog/how-many-americans-are-arrested-for-marijuana/ http://vansterdamclothing.com/blog/how-many-americans-are-arrested-for-marijuana/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:02:53 +0000 vansterdam http://vansterdamclothing.com/blog/?p=197 In 2008, the United States arrested almost 873,000 people on marijuana-related charges. 89% of those were arrested for simple possession! Let’s take a look at that number for a minute….

Arresting 873,000 people a year means that every day an average of about 2380 people were arrested for pot. Every hour about 99 people were arrested, which means that, on average, one person was arrested every 36 seconds  on marijuana-related charges!

At that rate, in the five or so minutes that I’ve spent writing this, 9 people in the United States were arrested for weed. Likely, 8 of those were arrested for simple possession.

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