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United States: Marijuana arrests top Violent Crime arrests

Posted by Benjamin Melançon - September 26, 2006 at 3:10 pm
The [FBI's] annual Uniform Crime Report announced that a record 786,545 marijuana-related arrests were made in 2005.  The number comprised almost 43 percent of all drug arrests in the country and exceeded the total number of arrests for all violent crimes in the US.

Eighty-seven percent of the marijuana-related arrests were for possession.

Report by The NewStandard (currently not producing new content until it meets a fund drive).

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they must not have known willie nelson's trick...

Submitted October 3, 2006 - 2:23 pm by Dennes Longoria
You have to have a minimum pound and a half of weed and several ounces of psychedelic shrooms, and then you'll only get a ticket and be on your way...

Dennes Longoria

PS: I can't guarantee it will work with anybody but Willie Nelson, but in theory it should.

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