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While cannabis enthusiasts around the state are celebrating the early days of marijuana legalization, weed arrests in Petersburg have been in decline over the last five years.
The city saw a spike in drug arrests in 2018 and 2019, in which over 500 arrests were made each before sharply declining in 2020. Petersburg Police Department reported a record number of 197 drug arrests to state police for last year. The police department hasn’t seen a number that low since 2015.
“It is a win because it eliminates the disproportionate penalizing against black people,” said Chelsea Higgs Wise, executive director of Marijuana Justice.
Virginia State Police reported a 36.7% decrease in drug arrests, with marijuana arrests dropping over 30% from last year. Similar to Petersburg, the state’s number of marijuana arrests are on the rise up until 2020.
Michael Pope reports.
For advocates pressing for legalization of marijuana, July 1st, 2021 has been a date on the calendar with particular significance. For them, it s the culmination of years of determination in the face of seemingly impossible odds. Jenn Michelle Pedini at Virginia NORML says the end of prohibition is an extraordinary victory. Public policy will finally have caught up with public opinion when it comes to cannabis in the Commonwealth, says Michelle Pedini. Virginians have long been calling for the end of prohibition, and in 2021 their voices are finally being heard.
Marijuana is now legal. But only in small amounts.