More pot smokers arrested than violent criminals

Some crazy bad news from NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, made Democracy Now! headlines:

29,000 Arrested in U.S. in 2006 for Marijuana Violations

New government statistics show police arrested a record 829,000 people for marijuana violations last year. According to the group NORML a pot-smoker is now arrested every 38 seconds in the country. The total number of marijuana arrests in the U.S. far exceeded the total number of arrests in the U.S. for all violent crimes combined, including murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

Do we really need to be filling our jails with pot smokers? It’s way past time to decriminalize cannabis.

Hit Counter Update

Updated uniques per day from the ol’ hit counter:

Day         Date            Unique Visitors     Above/Below
Friday      March 23, 2007      9                   -6
Thursday    March 22, 2007      19                  +4
Wednesday   March 21, 2007      23                  +8
Tuesday     March 20, 2007      19                  +4
Monday      March 19, 2007      11                  -4
Sunday      March 18, 2007      10                  -5
                      Average:  15

Chill, Rick -- still as unpopular as ever.

The best day ever so far was when I posted the Conservapedia entry. Next best was the UFO post.