Melody Lee: Interviewing New Yorkers Unlawfully Arrested for Marijuana in Public View
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Published on Jun 8, 2012
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Melody Lee is an Intern the Drug Policy Alliance. Melody has spent the last few months going into courts around the city interviewing New Yorkers falsely charged and unlawfully arrested for marijuana possession. Although private possession of marijuana was decriminalized in New York in 1977, New York is currently the Marijuana Arrests Capital of the World. Police make these arrests by exploiting a "loophole" in the law. Oftentimes, the police demand that people -- usually young people of color -- empty their pockets, and when they do, the violation for marijuana possession turns into an arrestable misdemeanor for marijuana in public view.
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All Comments (3)
trichometrist1 7 months ago
I lived in NY for 35 years never got stopped , not once
guilty of being white!
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JROLL84 11 months ago
i agree,,
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Matthew Cunningham 11 months ago
if its a weapons they are concerned with they could use a medal detector
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