The findings show that cannabis possession arrest rates declined over 70% among adults and over 40% among youths after cannabis decriminalization in 11 states.
Researchers highlighted that although decriminalization law provisions differ state by state, which potentially leads to differential policy impact, the overall reduction in arrest rates demonstrates the beneficial effects of cannabis decriminalization in racial disparity.
Researchers couldn't find any association between recreational cannabis legalization laws and racial disparity in arrest rates. However, they noted that such lack of evidence is because many states taken into consideration in the study regulated recreational cannabis after a decriminalization process. For this reason, researchers couldn't consider the potential effect of the implementation of legalization on the racial disparity in arrests for possession.
Researchers couldn't assess whether the decline in racial disparity among adults was due to individual cannabis possession behaviors or behavior change among law enforcement officers.
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