 We have yet another sign that America may be inching closer to the legalization of cannabis.
There’s been an ongoing downtrend in the number of federal prosecutions over cannabis related charges. These dwindling numbers show that cannabis crimes are continuing to become lower in priority as the legalization movement keeps gaining ground. According to the federal U.S. Sentencing Commission, cannabis busts only account for 5.7 percent of the total drug-related cases that the federal justice system pursued in 2021. That same report found that the average sentence for a marijuana trafficking case was 30 months, which is just about half of what is typically sentenced for other drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl. Comments are closed.
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