Every Minute, Someone Gets Arrested for Marijuana Possession in the U.S.

Growing marijuana can earn you a blue ribbon at the D.C. State Fair -- and an arrest record just about everywhere else

The nation’s law enforcement agencies are still arresting people for marijuana possession at near record-high rates, according to the latest national data released today by the FBI. In 2014, at least 620,000 people were arrested for simple pot possession — that’s 1,700 people per day, or more than 1 per minute. And that number is an undercount, because a handful of states either don’t report arrest numbers to the FBI, or do so only on a limited basis.

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