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Drug War Clock Tracking Money and Lives Wasted in a Fruitless Pursuit of Enforced Morality
The above link provides a running account of money being spent and people being incarcerated in the War on People Who Use Non-prescription Medications.
Some examples:
The U.S. federal government spent $19.179 billion dollars in 2003 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $600 per second
Someone is arrested every 20 seconds.
In 2000, 46.5 percent of the 1,579,566 total arrests for drug law violations were for cannabis -- a total of 734,497. Of those, 646,042 people were arrested for possession alone.
Approximately 236800 people are expected to be incarcerated for drug law violations in 2004.

posted by LoZo 11:49 AM