Good News for NYC Pot Smokers - Arrests are Way Down!
It’s good news for those on the edge of the marijuana revolution - pot-based arrests are way down! And though the battle for legality of the herb carries on, at least those on the streets are having less of a hard time. The reason for this incredibly low arrest rate? The NYPD and NYC in general has decided that they want to focus on other, more important things.
The statistics are saying that misdemeanor arrests involving marijuana have dropped a whopping 75 percent from last December. And that’s a far cry from the paranoid year of 2011, when pot arrests exceeded 50,000. So it looks like the trend is sticking. People are beginning to realize that marijuana is, essentially, a lot less harmful than other, legal drugs such as alcohol. Now all that’s left is to make it official, start taxing its sale and bring in the big bucks to the NYC coffers.
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