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www.leap.cc. www.leap.cc. Don’t Follow the U.S. down the Road to Prohibition. It is the road to Despair It is the road to Disaster It is the road to Destruction. Before 1914 heroin could be bought from grocery stores. 1.3 % of population was addicted to drugs. The Many Faces of Jack Cole.

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  2. Don’t Follow the U.S. down the Road to Prohibition It is the road to Despair It is the road to Disaster It is the road to Destruction

  3. Before 1914 heroin could be bought from grocery stores 1.3 % of population was addicted to drugs

  4. The Many Faces of Jack Cole 1964 1970

  5. 1970Percent of population addicted 1.3 %

  6. Deaths as result of drug culture 1970 = Less likely than Falling down stairs Choking on food

  7. Drug Problem? 1970 = Soft Drugs Hard Drugs virtually unheard of…

  8. DEA Briefing Book 2001 $6.00 1970 1.5 % $3.90 3.6% 38 % $0.80

  9. US Drug Users According to DEA 1965 = 4 million 2001 = 110 million

  10. Money spent fighting the Drug War 1970 = $100 million 2003 = $69 billion

  11. Drug seizures for local or state police in 1970 One ounce of Cocaine One quarter ounce of Heroin

  12. Drug seizures by 2002 Ten tons of Heroin Twenty tons of Cocaine

  13. According to DEAone ounce of Heroin Cost 70 % LESS $258,200 in 1970 $77,460 in 2000

  14. Heroin Overdose Rateper 100,000 users 1979 = 28 Deaths 2000 = 141 Deaths

  15. Drug Arrests Quadrupled Marijuana Arrests and Total Drug Arrests in the US 774,605 88 % 1.9 million ½ Million

  16. 2002Percent of population addicted 1.3 %

  17. How Has Prohibition ChangedDrug Use in US Schools? “THIS SURVEY confirms that our drug-prevention efforts are working and that when we work together and push back, the drug problem gets smaller.” US Drug Czar John Walters Monitoring the Future 2002 An ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults

  18. How Has Prohibition ChangedDrug Use in US Schools? Between 1991 and 2002 marijuana use among students in all school gradesincreased.

  19. How Has Prohibition ChangedDrug Use in US Schools? 30 % increase for 12th graders

  20. How Has Prohibition ChangedDrug Use in US Schools? 65 % increase for 10th graders

  21. How Has Prohibition ChangedDrug Use in US Schools? 88 % increase for 8th graders

  22. How Has Prohibition ChangedDrug Use in US Schools? School children report it is easier to buy illegal drugs than it is to buy beer or cigarettes

  23. International Trade in Illicit Drugs Annually generates: $500 billion

  24. Alternative Policy Solution Remove the profit motive continuously enhanced for 30 years by the United States policy of a WAR ON DRUGS

  25. End Prohibition 1. Legalize Drugs

  26. Won’t legalization cause everyone to use drugs? 10th graders in Holland who have tried marijuana: 28 %

  27. Won’t legalization cause everyone to use drugs? 10th graders in the U.S. who have tried marijuana: 41 %

  28. Drug and Violence Indicators - US and the Netherlands - Marijuana UseLifetime prevalence 37% 17% USA Netherlands Homicide rate per 100,000 population 5.6 1.5 USA Netherlands Heroin Use Lifetime prevalence 1.4% 0.4% USA Netherlands

  29. Incarceration Rates in Western European Nations At or below 100 Per 100,000 population

  30. Incarceration Rates in the United States By December 2003 726 Per 100,000 population

  31. Federal Drug Imprisonments +2,558% 3,384 17,302 +294%

  32. Outcomes ofLegalization 1.9 million less people arrested each year 69 Billion Dollars saved each year

  33. End Prohibition 1. Legalize Drugs 2. Have the federal government produce those drugs

  34. Outcomes ofGovernment Production 1. Quality controlled production for consistency 2. Standardized measurement and potency End of overdoses

  35. 1. Legalize Drugs 2. Government production 3. Sell drugs to adults from state package stores and Tax the sales

  36. 1. Legalize Drugs 2. Government production 3. Distribute free maintenance doses of drugs to any adult requesting them

  37. Results of treating heroin addiction with heroin Switzerland and Holland

  38. Results of treating heroin addiction with heroin AIDS and HEPATITIS dropped to the lowest of any countries in Europe Not one Overdose Deathsince 1994 82 % DECLINE IN NEW HEROIN USERS! Crime was cut by 60%

  39. 1. Legalize Drugs 2. Government production 3. Distribute free doses 4. Redirect money saved to programs that offer people hope for the future

  40. Programs offering hope Guaranteed Minimums Education - Health Care - Housing - Job Training Employment Livable Wages

  41. Programs offering hope Rehabilitation Centers

  42. Results of offering people hope for the future Less need to use drugs Less drug addicts

  43. 1. Legalize Drugs 2. Government production 3. Distribute free doses 4. Create hope for the future 5. Redirect money saved to programs that offer true education about drugs

  44. Does Education Work? 2003 United States Only 21% smoked tobacco 1985 United States 42% smoked tobacco

  45. Albert Einstein on Prohibition The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this. Albert Einstein

  46. Prohibition - When will we learn? Members of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform pose for a photograph in 1932 (courtesy of the Hagly Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware).  We are having to relearn the same lesson today that they learned 69 years ago.

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  48. Alcohol Prohibition Didn’t Work Either There were 15,000 saloons in New York when Prohibition started; within a few years, there were 32,000.

  49. Methedemic down 29 % Methamphetamine usedecreased by 29 percent in last four years

  50. Inmates there for crimes to get money to buy drugs State Prisons = 17% Jails = 13% Federal Inmates = 18%

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