27th of January 2012
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A Few Facts on America’s War on Drugs
-Started in 1971 when Richard Nixon declared an all out war on drugs
-His first drug-fighting budget was $100 million. Now it’s $15.1 billion
-After 40 years the drug war has cost over $1 trillion.
In 40 years, taxpayers spent more than:
— $20 billion to fight the drug gangs in their home countries. In Colombia, for example, the United States spent more than $6 billion, while coca cultivation increased and trafficking moved to Mexico — and the violence along with it.
— $33 billion in marketing “Just Say No”-style messages to America’s youth and other prevention programs. High school students report the same rates of illegal drug use as they did in 1970, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says drug overdoses have “risen steadily” since the early 1970s to more than 20,000 last year.
— $49 billion for law enforcement along America’s borders to cut off the flow of illegal drugs. This year, 25 million Americans will snort, swallow, inject and smoke illicit drugs, about 10 million more than in 1970, with the bulk of those drugs imported from Mexico.
— $121 billion to arrest more than 37 million nonviolent drug offenders, about 10 million of them for possession of marijuana. Studies show that jail time tends to increase drug abuse.
— $450 billion to lock those people up in federal prisons alone. In 2009 half of all federal prisoners in the U.S. were serving sentences for drug offenses.
-In 1970, proponents said beefed-up law enforcement could effectively seal the southern U.S. border and stop drugs from coming in. Since then, the U.S. used patrols, checkpoints, sniffer dogs, cameras, motion detectors, heat sensors, drone aircraft — and even put up more than 1,000 miles of steel beam, concrete walls and heavy mesh stretching from California to Texas.
-The dealers who are caught have overwhelmed justice systems in the United States and elsewhere. U.S. prosecutors declined to file charges in 7,482 drug cases last year, most because they simply didn’t have the time. That’s about one out of every four drug cases.
-Even the US Surgeon General has said that “marijuana should be legalized.”
-There has never been a single recorded death caused directly by marijuana; while legal substances such as alcohol and tobacco cause upwards of hundreds of thousands of deaths a year individually.
-A recent GALLUP Poll showed that a record high 50% of people believe marijuana should be legalized.
-Marijuana is classified as a schedule 1 drug; other schedule drugs include, crystal meth, PCP, and heroin.
(Source: foxnews.com)
25th of January 2012
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Books are expensive.
22nd of January 2012
I’d really dig
if some girl would come cuddle with me. Cuddling is da bestz.
