According to the American Civil Liberties Union, Black people were nearly four times as likely as whites to be arrested for marijuana possession in the U.S. in 2018, despite statistics indicating that “whites have higher lifetime rates of pot usage,” the Journal reported, noting a 2017 National Institutes of Health study also determined that Black people were incarcerated at rates between five and seven times higher than those for whites convicted of similar drug-related offenses.
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