By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The war on drugs picked up steam last year.
Drug arrests increased by 5.6% in the U.S. in 2016, even as local and federal governments began to call for less incarceration in favor of rehabilitation, according to new FBI data.
The number of arrests jumped from 1.488 million in 2015 to 1.573 million – or one arrest every 20 seconds.
The increase in arrests come despite many states legalizing medicinal or recreational marijuana.
The data does not break down the arrests by drug type.
