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Originally Posted by candyflip
Are there really that many people locked away in the prison system on pot related charges?
I'd be interested in seeing what that number is.
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Don't have the stats handy, but I remember reading somewhere it was around a third of the prison population (which would be hundreds of thousands) were in prison for non-violent drug-related charges. Didn't say how many of those were pot-smokers, but I would guess the majority of them.