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www.leap.cc. www.leap.cc. The Many Faces of Jack Cole. 1964. 1970. The Drug War has been the single most devastating, dysfunctional social policy since slavery. Who Uses and Sells Drugs?. Blacks constitute 13.5% of all drug users in the US. Whites constitute 72% of all drug users in the US.

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  2. The Many Faces of Jack Cole 1964 1970

  3. The Drug War has been the single most devastating, dysfunctional social policy since slavery.

  4. Who Uses and Sells Drugs? Blacks constitute 13.5% of all drug users in the US Whites constitute 72% of all drug users in the US

  5. Who Gets Arrested? 37% of those arrested for drug violations are Black

  6. Who Goes to Prison? 81% of federal drug offenders are black 60% of those in state prisons for drug feloniesare Black

  7. Who Goes to Prison? Blacks are now serving an average of six years, while whites are serving only four years.

  8. Incarceration Rates in the United States White Males 943 Per 100,000 population

  9. Incarceration Rate of Black Males Per 100,000 population South Africa - 1993 Under Apartheid 851 United States - 2008 Under Prohibition 6,667

  10. How to Judge if Drug Policy Works 1. Drug prices increase 2. Drug potency decreases 3. Drug supply decreases 4. Drug use decreases 5. Overdose deaths decrease 6. Drug Prohibition murders decrease

  11. Wholesale Cocaine Costs 60 % LESS

  12. Wholesale Heroin Costs 70 % LESS

  13. Drug purity increased from 1½ % in 1970 to 60 %today

  14. Drug seizures went from Ounces in 1970 toTonstoday

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

  16. US Drug Users According to DEA Two percent of that population 1965 = 4 million 46 percent of this population Today = 112 million

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

  18. Money spent fighting the Drug War 1970 = $100 million Today= $70 billion

  19. Yearly Arrests for Nonviolent Drug Offenses Increased From 415,000 in 1970 to 1.9 million Today

  20. US Tax Dollars SpentProsecuting the War on Drugs One Trillion

  21. Cumulative U.S. Drug Arrests 1970 to 2005 41 MillionArrests

  22. Percent of population addicted--Nothing has changed-- 1.3 %When drugs legal 1.3 %When drugs illegal 1.3 %After 40 year war

  23. Clearance Rates for Violent and Property Crimes Unsolved 40% of murders 60% of rapes & arsons 75% of robberies 90% of home Burglaries

  24. 1963 Police Credited With solving 91 % of Murders Today 61 % of Murders

  25. 30 Percent Fewer Solved Murders Chasing nonviolent Drug Users

  26. No Longer Protect us from VIOLENTPredators

  27. 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

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

  29. Alternative Policy Solution Remove the profit motive continuously enhanced for 40 years by the United States policy of a WAR ON DRUGS

  30. End Prohibition Legalize and Regulate All Drugs

  31. Won’t legalization cause everyone to use drugs? National Zogby Poll If heroin and cocain were made legal would you try them? Less than 6/10 of one percent said Yes

  32. Won’t legalization cause everyone to use drugs? In the Netherlands 28 % Marijuana use by tenth graders

  33. Marijuana use by tenth graders in the United States 41 %

  34. 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

  35. Portugal Decreased by 25% Decriminalized all drugs for adults in 2001 drug use by 13 to 15 year olds

  36. Portugal Decreased by 22% drug use by 16 to 18 year olds

  37. Portugal Decreased by 52% Heroin overdose deaths

  38. Portugal Decreased by 71% HIV infections reported by drug users

  39. 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%

  40. Does Education Work? 2003 United States Only 17% smoked tobacco 1985 United States 42% smoked tobacco

  41. 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

  42. 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.

  43. Prohibition - When will we learn? Stamp Out Prohibition Save our Children 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. Members of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform

  44. Save our Children Stamp Out Prohibition

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