700, 993 people were arrested in 2014 for marijuana-related offences in the US. That’s one arrest every 45 seconds, with almost 90% of arrests related to possession. Aside from the removal of civil liberties for being in possession of a plant, which the vast majority of people believe should be legal, it is also costing more than half a billion dollars of tax revenue each year to maintain.
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