Anyone have the referenced information on

[Ed Ward MD]

the number of prisoners jailed for pot offenses? Seems I remember something about 75% of drug prisoners are pot offenders and their numbers. Not sure if it was here or elsewhere. Could use the US numbers with reference if possible.

Thanks,

Ed Ward, MD

[C.BEVERLY]

The BJS report provides data from the 1997 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities.[3] According to the report, 12.9% of the drug prisoners in state prison and 18.9% of those in federal prison were incarcerated for marijuana/hashish offenses. The report uses the numbers 216,254 and 55,069 as the total numbers of state and federal inmates, respectively, for all drug offenses. Using these numbers, the total number of people incarcerated for marijuana offenses would be 27,900 in state prison and 10,400 in federal prison, for a total of 38,300 marijuana prisoners.

However, this estimate of the number of marijuana prisoners is too low, as it is based on an estimated total number of all prisoners which the BJS report notes is an underestimate.

The BJS report's estimates of the total number of drug prisoners represents 20.7% and 62.6% of the total estimated state and federal inmate populations, respectively. But the report notes that its estimated 1,046,705 state inmates and 88,018 federal inmates represent undercounts. Excluded from the BJS estimate of federal inmates were unsentenced inmates and those prisoners under federal jurisdiction but housed in state and private contract facilities. Those prisoners who were under state jurisdiction, yet held in local jails or private facilities, were excluded from the estimated number of state prisoners.[3]

An even newer BJS report provides accurate prisoner counts as of 30 June 1998 -- a total of 1,102,653 state prisoners and 107,381 federal prisoners.[4] In the Survey of Inmates, marijuana prisoners composed 2.7% of the state prison population and 11.8% of the federal population. Assuming that the proportions of drug prisoners to all prisoners -- and of marijuana prisoners to all drug prisoner -- was the same in the total prison population in June 1998 as in the population subject to the Survey of Inmates, there would be 29,800 marijuana prisoners presently incarcerated in state prisons and 12,700 marijuana prisoners presently incarcerated in the federal prison system, for a total of 42,500 marijuana prisoners.

This number is surprisingly high; the only recent published estimate, in a report by the Marijuana Policy Project issued in November 1998, put the figure at 29,300.[5]

[C.BEVERLY]

http://mpp.org/pdf/prohfact.pdf

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Prevalence Estimates

Use by General Population

Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug. According to the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), it was used by 75% of current (past month) illicit drug users. Some 55% of current illicit drug users used only marijuana, 20% used marijuana and another illicit drug, and 25% used an illicit drug other than marijuana in the past month.

The 2002 NSDUH also showed that an estimated 40.4% (94.9 million) of Americans age 12 or older had used marijuana or hashish in their lifetime, 11% (25.8 million) had used it in the past year, and 6.2% (14.6 million) had used it in the past month. One-third of the past month users, or 4.8 million persons, reported using marijuana 20 or more days in the past month.

There were an estimated 2.6 million new marijuana users in the United States in 2001. This is similar to the number of new users each year since 1995, but an increase over the number in 1990 (1.6 million). Approximately 67% of the new marijuana users in 2001 were under age 18. This proportion has typically increased since the 1960s, when less than half of initiates were under 18. The average age of marijuana initiates in 2001 was 17.1 years.

http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/factsht/marijuana/

4 mil pot smokers criminalized.

http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/pdf/mj_rev.pdf

[Ed Ward MD]

Thanks for the Facts. ;)

Ed :cool: