{"id":1391,"date":"2021-09-29T00:12:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T00:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/wp-home\/?p=179961"},"modified":"2021-09-29T00:12:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T00:12:16","slug":"marijuana-arrests-dropped-36-in-2020-fbi-data-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=1391","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana arrests dropped 36% in 2020, FBI data reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <title>Marijuana arrests dropped 36% in 2020, FBI data reveal &#8211; Leafly<\/title>     <!-- This is Index Exchange, a script\/\/3rd-party integration that interjects GAM. It needs to be 'ahead' of GTM in the DOM, which comes from Cephalopod. GTM loads GAM. 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The new data came as part of the annual FBI\u2019s Uniform Crime Report for 2020. <\/p>\n<p>The good news: Roughly 195,000 more Americans lived their lives free of police harassment, arrest, and incarceration last year, compared to 2019. <\/p>\n<p>The bad news: More than 350,000 Americans were needlessly arrested last year. Cannabis is now legal for all adults in 18 states and Washington, D.C. All but 12 states allow medical marijuana in some form. <\/p>\n<p>Roughly 91 percent of those arrested for cannabis were taken into custody for possession only. So more than 300,000 Americans were arrested for an act (simple possession of a plant) that is legal in 18 states. An estimated 50% of all cannabis arrests occurred in the Northeast. <\/p>\n<p>Eric Altieri, executive director of <a href=\"https:\/\/norml.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NORML<\/a>, put the data in perspective. \u201cWhile these numbers represent a historic decline in arrests,\u201d he said, \u201ceven one person being put into handcuffs for the simple possession of marijuana is too many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 arrest decline may be a portent of things to come, as New Jersey and New York prepare to open their state-licensed marijuana industries in the coming year\u2014and states like Pennsylvania seriously consider joining them in ending cannabis prohibition. <\/p>\n<p>For a long-term look at national marijuana arrests, <a href=\"https:\/\/norml.org\/laws\/arrest-charts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NORML<\/a> created this chart that tracks the data back to the 1960s: <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img width=\"650\" height=\"366\" alt=\"image-of-chart-of-marijuana-arrests\" class=\"wp-image-179973 has-ll lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/marijuana-arrests-dropped-36-in-2020-fbi-data-reveal.png,compress&amp;w=550 550w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/marijuana-arrests-dropped-36-in-2020-fbi-data-reveal.png,compress&amp;w=740 740w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/marijuana-arrests-dropped-36-in-2020-fbi-data-reveal.png,compress&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/marijuana-arrests-dropped-36-in-2020-fbi-data-reveal.png,compress&amp;w=1480 1480w\"><figcaption>Marijuana arrests in 2020 plunged to 1990s levels. 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