05-18-2017, 08:15 AM
<div> Study: Racial Disparity In Marijuana Arrest Rates Increasing
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by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director May 16, 2017
African Americans in Virginia are arrested for violating marijuana possession laws at more than three times the rates of whites and this disparity is rising, according to an <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://wtvr.com/2017/05/15/racial-disparities-in-marijuana-arrests-seen-across-virginia/">analysis</a> of statewide arrest data by Virginia Commonwealth Universitys Capital News Service.
Researchers reviewed 160,000 state and local arrest records from the years 2010 through 2016. They found that blacks were 2.9 times as likely as whites to be arrested for possessing marijuana in 2010, but 3.2 times as likely to be arrested by 2016.
In some counties and towns, such as in Hanover County and in Arlington, Virginia, the black arrest rate was six to eight times that of whites....
<a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://blog.norml.org/2017/05/16/study-racial-disparity-in-marijuana-arrest-rates-increasing/">http://blog.norml.org/2017/05/16/study-racial-disparity-in-marijuana-arrest-rates-increasing/</a>
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by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director May 16, 2017
African Americans in Virginia are arrested for violating marijuana possession laws at more than three times the rates of whites and this disparity is rising, according to an <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://wtvr.com/2017/05/15/racial-disparities-in-marijuana-arrests-seen-across-virginia/">analysis</a> of statewide arrest data by Virginia Commonwealth Universitys Capital News Service.
Researchers reviewed 160,000 state and local arrest records from the years 2010 through 2016. They found that blacks were 2.9 times as likely as whites to be arrested for possessing marijuana in 2010, but 3.2 times as likely to be arrested by 2016.
In some counties and towns, such as in Hanover County and in Arlington, Virginia, the black arrest rate was six to eight times that of whites....
<a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://blog.norml.org/2017/05/16/study-racial-disparity-in-marijuana-arrest-rates-increasing/">http://blog.norml.org/2017/05/16/study-racial-disparity-in-marijuana-arrest-rates-increasing/</a>