More arrests? Yes. A higher percentage? No.
Well, here's a correlation between more arrests, more demand, AND an increase in the percentage of arrests: from 1991-2004, arrests for mj were up over 150%, past-month demand was up 40%.* (that's also a failure to control demand during ONDCP's watch)
And dont forget this correlation from 1979-1991: Arrests declined by 25%, past-month usage declined to a multi-year low*.
Remember the Nixon Drug War? From 1970-1979, demand for mj and arrests for mj show a positive correlation.
*See post #270 on this thread for source.
Rio Linda summary-- There is at least as good a statistical case for the proposition that more arrests lead to more mj demand, as there is for the proposition that more arrests lead to less mj demand. I gave several time periods where the former relationship holds.
I made no claims for the period 1991-2004 (what's the significance?), the period 1979-1991 (again, what's the significance?), or the period 1970-1979 (again, what's the significance?).
You pull these out for no reason -- other than you selectively picked certain times where my statement wouldn't appply.
If I made the statement, "The stock market has gone down in the last five years, I'd fully expect you to post, "Uh, no, you're wrong. It went up three years ago on June 18, last November from the 14th to the 15th, and just last month it rose again! So you're wrong."