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Data shows race influences marijuana arrests

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 08/31/2015 - 00:41

Marijuana usage is roughly the same across all races. But predicting who gets caught is black and white.

In North Carolina, black people are 3.4 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white people.

And according to a 2013 report from the American Civil Liberties Union, the rate was worse for Orange County and nearby Durham and Chatham counties, where the disproportionate arrest rate exceeded the national average of 3.73.

“The war on marijuana disproportionately is a war on people of color,” said Mike Meno, spokesman for the ACLU of North Carolina.

FBI Uniform Crime Report data shows that in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available, 50.2 percent of the people arrested for marijuana possession in North Carolina were black, yet just 22 percent of the state’s population is black.

During the past six months in Orange...

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