STOP ALL WARS

World leaders in medicine, business, and governments past and current all call for an end to the failed policies of the war on drugs.
 
Amount spent annually in the U.S. on the war on drugs: More than $51,000,000,000

Number of people arrested for a cannabis law violation in 2013: 693,482

Number of Americans incarcerated in 2013 in federal, state and local prisons and jails: 2,220,300 or 1 in every 110 adults, the highest incarceration rate in the world

Number of states that allow the medical use of cannabis: 23 + District of Columbia

Number of states that have approved legally taxing and regulating cannabis: 4 (Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington)

Estimated annual revenue that California would raise if it taxed and regulated the sale of cannabis: $1,400,000,000
 
Number of students who have lost federal financial aid eligibility because of a drug conviction: 200,000+

Tax revenue that drug legalization would yield annually, if currently-illegal drugs were taxed at rates comparable to those on alcohol and tobacco: $46.7 billion

One-third of all AIDS cases in the U.S. have been caused by syringe sharing: 354,000 people

U.S. federal government support for syringe access programs: $0.00, thanks to a federal ban reinstated by Congress in 2011 that prohibits any federal assistance for them
Drug War Statistics Drug Policy.org

Did you know....


Number of people arrested in 2013 in the U.S. on nonviolent drug charges: 1.5 million
 

  • Number of those charged with cannabis law violations who were arrested for possession only: 609,423 (88 percent)

 
Proportion of people incarcerated for a drug offense in state prison who are black or Latino, although these groups use and sell drugs at similar rates as whites: 57 percent
 
Number of states that have decriminalized cannabis by eliminating criminal penalties for simple possession of small amounts for personal use: 20
 

Number of people killed in Mexico's drug war since 2006: 100,000+
 

 
Number of people in the U.S. who died from a drug overdose in 2013: 43,982
 
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that syringe access programs lower HIV incidence among people who inject drugs by: 80 percent
 

 
We can change this situation by treating all drug use as a health not  criminal problem. We can change, many are taking the courage to speak out. Join them.