Dangerous States
November, 2000
the war on marijuana users, from coast to coastAlarmed by reports that the number of people arrested each year in the U.S. for marijuana offenses more than doubled between 1990 and 1998 (to nearly 700,000) even as the number of users remained constant, the NORML Foundation commissioned a study that looked at the distribution of the arrests.Surprisingly, it found that the four states with the highest arrest rates per 100,000 residents---Alaska, New York, Nebraska and Mississippi---have decriminal...
