Despite cannabis’ ongoing decriminalization in the U.S., drug arrests are continuing as they have in the past.
Additional nuggets released by the company in the Twitter thread included that while laws are changing, police enforcers appear to be way behind.
Aside from a few exceptions, most findings were positive, such as there being fewer charges and lower incarceration rates for Black people. Evolving drug laws have also resulted in a 62 per cent reduction in prison populations, Pew reports.
More troubling, however, is the finding that drug and alcohol mortality rates in prisons have increased by five per cent and three per cent, respectively.
Drug possession arrests, for their part, barely budged, decreasing by just 0.4 per cent.
There’s also the fact that while marijuana arrests have decreased, other drug arrests have increased, highlighting the racial differences in the types of drugs Black and
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