MPP – Report: Behind the Times: The 19 States Where a Joint Can Still Land You in Jail

This Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) report examines the laws that lag the furthest behind public opinion: the 19 states and federal government, which have not even “decriminalized” simple possession of cannabis. In those states, it examines penalties for simple possession, arrest rates, and racial disparities in arrests

and provides a glimpse at some of the damage in icted by draconian laws. It
also reviews unsolved crime rates in the states that continue to use limited law enforcement resources to arrest and jail adults for possessing a substance that is safer than alcohol.