The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., said that half of the 6,200 people who were charged with low - level
marijuana possession last year in Manhattan had never been arrested before.
Cops continued to arrest more black and Latino New Yorkers for
marijuana possession last year because the most complaints about people smoking pot came from neighborhoods of color, a top NYPD official told the City Council Monday.
There were 205 arrests for
marijuana possession last year in Albany County, according to statistics compiled by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, and more than 25,000 such arrests statewide.
Not exact matches
According to a Washington Post investigation, in the
last 25 years, arrests for
marijuana possession have tripled as a percentage of overall arrests.
James Robinson, a four - star WR out of Florida, was cited for
marijuana possession while visiting Ohio State
last weekend.
4 - Star WR James Robinson was cited for
marijuana possession on his Ohio State visit
last weekend.
This is the same woman that crashed the car with him in it
last year when he was arrested for
marijuana possession, which almost cost him his job.
NFL —
Last night the Steelers got news they didn't want to hear, as both RB's Le'Veon Bell and LeGarrette Blount were arrested and charged with
marijuana possession after a traffic stop.
Bell was suspended for the first three games of
last season (later reduced to two) for a violation of the policy on substances of abuse after he was arrested for
marijuana possession and DUI in the summer of 2014.
Then,
last March, drug - sniffing dogs detected
marijuana in his
possession as he was making his way through the Toronto airport.
He said the city also established policies like eliminating arrests for low - level
marijuana possession, saying that arrests in many cases are a
last resort.
There were 17,880 arrests in NYC
last year for which the most serious charge was low - level misdemeanor
marijuana possession, according to the state Department of Criminal Justice Services.
Last year, 86 percent of those arrested for low - level
marijuana possession were black and Hispanic.
NYC arrested 16,925 people
last year for low - level
marijuana possession and smoking in public, a decline of only 1 percentage point from the previous year's total of 17,097, even though de Blasio said he would cut down on arrests.
Last week, the states of Colorado and Washington became the first two states to legalize the
possession and use of
marijuana for recreational use.
I'm not going to be the
last judge in this country to convict somebody of simple
possession of
marijuana... You can't have the Prime Minister announcing it's going to be legalized and then stand up and prosecute it.
Jury Nullification Keeps NJ Weedman Out of Jail; DEA Comes Calling
Last week, Ed Forchion, a.k.a. the NJ Weedman, was found not guilty of
possession of
marijuana with intent to distribute after being caught by cops in New Jersey with a pound of
marijuana in his car.