During Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s tenure New York City spent over a million police hours processing misdemeanor marijuana arrests due in large part to the controversial stop and frisk policy that targets minority communities. According to the findings of a new report by the Drug Policy Alliance, from 2002 to 2012 roughly 440,000 low-level misdemeanor marijuana [...]

New York City has a huge number of low-level marijuana arrests every year and overwhelmingly, the people targeted are African Americans and Latinos. Public radio station WNYC has a great piece out today focused on the problem and shows how many of these arrests were likely based on illegal searches or gross violations of Americans’ [...]