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New Record for Marijuana Arrests

Jacob Sullum | 10.25.2004 11:49 AM

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Marijuana arrests in the U.S. totaled a record 755,000 last year, according to the FBI's latest numbers. That represented 45 percent of all drug arrests. Almost nine out of 10 marijuana arrests were for simple possession, as opposed to sale/manufacture, a category that includes all cultivation offenses.

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Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason. He is the author, most recently, of Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives (Prometheus Books, September 2).

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