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

3. The Many Faces of Jack Cole 1964 1970

4. 1970Percent of population addicted 1.3 %

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

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

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

8. US Drug Users According to DEA Two percent of that population 1965 = 4 million 46 percent of that population 2003 = 112 million

9. Money spent fighting the Drug War 1970 = $100 million 2003 = $70 billion

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

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

12. Wholesale Cocaine Costs 60 % LESS

13. Wholesale Heroin Costs 70 % LESS

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. US Tax Dollars SpentProsecuting the War on Drugs One Trillion

17. Cumulative U.S. Drug Arrests 1970 to 2005 39 MillionArrests

18. 2002Percent of population addicted 1.3 %

19. Percent of population addicted--Nothing has changed-- 1.3 %When drugs legal 1.3 %When drugs illegal 1.3 %After 38 year war

20. Clearance Rates for Violent and Property Crimes Unsolved 40% of murders 60% of rapes & arsons 75% of robberies 46% of Assaults 83% of property Crimes

21. 1963 Police Credited With solving 91 % of Murders Today 55 % of Murders

22. 36 Percent Fewer Solved Murders Chasing nonviolent Drug Users

23. Protect us from VIOLENTPredators

24. 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

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

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

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

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

29. 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

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

31. This is a mere $255 million $500 billion would cover a room 2,000 times this size

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

33. End Prohibition 1. Legalize Drugs

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

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

36. 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

37. Incarceration Rates in Western European Nations At or below 150 Per 100,000 population

38. Incarceration Rates in the United States By March 2008 1,009 Per 100,000 population

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

40. 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

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

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

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

44. Bureau of Justice Statistics Disenfranchisement In Texas 31% of black men lost right to vote Disenfranchisement 14% of black men lost right to vote Nine in 10 prisoners serving mandatory sentences for drug offenses in New York State prisonsare black or Latino Black male born today has a one-in-three chance of serving time in prison Of convicted defendants 33% of whites received a prison sentence Of convicted defendants 51% of Blacks received prison sentences

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

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

47. Outcomes ofLegalization 1.9 million less people arrested each year 70 Billion Dollars saved each year

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

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

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