Between January 1 and June 30 of this year, Seattle saw the highest rate of pot arrests in over a decade, according to records obtained by the Seattle City Attorney's office. The Stranger's findings are detailed in a story in this week's paper. Here's a graph that shows the spike in monthly pot arrests:

Moreover, the reasons those people are getting busted is changing:

The number of people arrested just for pot—as opposed to, for instance, a suspect being stopped for burglary and having pot on them—is astronomically higher now.

This year, 147 people have been referred to prosecutors with pot as the only charge, according to records from the Seattle Police Department (SPD) and the city attorney's office. That is a fivefold increase in the number of pot-only cases (last year, only 28 of the 120 arrests were referred for prosecution with pot as the only charge). In other words, pot-only arrests rose from 23 percent to 85 percent.

What the hell is going on? Read the whole story HERE.