Number of American Marijuana Smokers

Monitoring the Future Study

National Home Survey on Drug Abuse

94 Million Americans age 12 and up have tried marijuana at least once

NIDA ( National Institute of Drug Abuse):

Over 6, 000 try marijuana for the first time every day

Marijuana Arrests

FBI/DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics

Year 2013659,000

Marijuana arrests in Pennsylvania 2013

Possession: 17, 964 adults + 2,724 juveniles = 20, 688Sales/Cultivation: 4,729 adults + 372 juveniles = 5,101

Cost of arrestsPossession = $26.5 million per yearSales/cultivation = $47 million per year

Philadelphia

Possession: 3773 adults + 563 juveniles = 4336 …..83% African American