Researchers said seven counties saw more than 2,000 marijuana possession arrests in 2017:
- Bergen County – 3,681
- Monmouth County – 3,351
- Middlesex County – 2,447
- Essex County – 2,356
- Camden – 2,290
- Union – 2,157
- Burlington – 2,139
"The slow-motion civil rights catastrophe of marijuana arrests must end, and it must end now," ACLU-NJ Executive Director Amol Sinha said. "We know that black and brown communities have disproportionately borne the often-lifelong consequences an arrest wreaks on their employment prospects, their opportunities for education and their very future. We know that the costs of marijuana prohibition are too steep for New Jerseyans to continue to pay."