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www.leap.cc. www.leap.cc. The Many Faces of Jack Cole. 1982. 1964. 1977. 1973. 1970. DEA Briefing Book 2001. $ 6.00. 1970. 1.5 %. 38 %. $0.80. DEA Staffing and Appropriations FY 1973-2000. Employees-3 times as many. Budget-20 times larger. Year. Total Drug Arrests.

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  2. The Many Faces of Jack Cole 1982 1964 1977 1973 1970

  3. DEA Briefing Book 2001 $6.00 1970 1.5 % 38 % $0.80

  4. DEA Staffing and AppropriationsFY 1973-2000 Employees-3 times as many Budget-20 times larger

  5. Year Total Drug Arrests Total Marijuana Arrests Marijuana Trafficking/Sale Arrests Marijuana Possession Arrests 2000 1,579,566 734,497 84,271 620,541 1999 1,532,200 704,812 84,271 620,541 1998 1,559,100 682,885 84,191 598,694 1995 1,476,100 588,964 85,614 503,350 1990 1,089,500 326,850 66,460 260,390 1980 580,900 401,982 63,318 338,664 Marijuana Arrests and Total Drug Arrests in the US Total Drug Arrests per year Tripled

  6. Metro SectionFebruary 5 1994, page 23The New York Times 4,800 pounds of cocaine Street value of $350 million Not worthy of an article! Nancy Siesel/The New York Times Cocaine Seized in Industrial Machine Imported from Venezuela The police and Federal authorities recovered 4,800 pounds of cocaine, with an estimated street value of up to $350 million, and arrested four men unpacking the drugs at a warehouse in the Corona section of Queens. Police officers and agents from the United States Customs Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration strained to load the drugs into a truck.

  7. Drug seizures in 1994 New York Times, July 15, 1994, B3 Three tons of cocaine hidden in cargo at the Port of Newark Federal agents recovered five tons of cocaine in Houston in May, three tons in San Francisco in June and five more tons in El Paso in July.

  8. 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

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

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

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

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

  13. 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

  14. International Trade in Illicit Drugs Annually generates: $400 billion

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

  16. End Prohibition 1. Legalize Drugs

  17. Won’t legalization cause everyone to use drugs? 10th graders in Holland who have tried marijuana: 10th graders in the U.S. who have tried marijuana: 28 % 41 %

  18. Outcomes ofLegalization 1.6 million less people arrested each year 69 Billion Dollars saved each year

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

  20. Outcomes ofGovernment Production • Quality controlled production for purity • Standardized measurement and potency • End of overdoses

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

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

  23. Results of treating heroin addiction with heroin Unstable housing situations dropped by nearly 2/3rds from 49 to 21% Homelessness dropped from 12 % to ZERO Cocaine use among the addicts plummeted from 35% to 5% Full-time Employment more than doubled, from 14% to 32% Unemployment was cut in half, from 44% to 22% Crime was cut by 60% Drug-caused deaths dropped 34 % between 2001 & 2002

  24. Outcomes ofFree Governmental Distribution • No profit motive for drug distribution • No individuals selling drugs • No crimes committed to obtain drugs • No criminal association for drug users • No diseases passed by sharing needles • Users able to stabilize their addictions

  25. Outcomes ofLegalization and free distribution • No shootings of dealers by other dealers • No kids caught in crossfire • No police killed fighting drug war • No one killed by police in the drug war • No advertisement to further drug use • No one soliciting one more drug user

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

  27. Programs offering hope Rehabilitation Centers

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

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

  30. 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

  31. Does Education Work? 1965 41.9 % of the adult US population smoked tobacco 1998 Only 24% of the adult US population smoked tobacco

  32. 1. Legalize Drugs 2. Government production 3. Distribute free doses 4. Create hope for the future 5. Educate users and public

  33. 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

  34. 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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  36. Does Drugs or Drug Prohibition cause crime?

  37. Outcomes ofLegalization Lower Institutionalized Racism in the Criminal Justice System

  38. Federal Household Survey Over 42% of those in federal prisons for drug violations are black Whites constitute 72% of all drug users in the US African-Americans comprise almost 60% of those in state prisons for drug felonies But 37% of those arrested for drug violations are Black Blacks constitute 15% of all drug users in the US

  39. Bureau of Justice Statistics Of convicted defendants 33% of whites received a prison sentence 51% of African-Americans received prison sentences Punishment is 100 times worse for Crack than for powder cocaine Disenfranchisement Over 10% of the total voting population of black men have lost their right to vote due to felony convictions. Black male born today has a one in four chance of serving time in prison In New York State prisonsNine in 10 of those serving mandatory sentences for drug offenses are black or Latino

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