HOW MUCH MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT BY THE US IN 40 YEARS?
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To lock those people up in federal prisons
Other costs: an overburdened justice system, a strained health care system, lost productivity, and environmental destruction
215 billion
To fight the drug gangs in their home countries
20 billion
450 billion
In marketing "Just Say No"-style messages to America's youth and other prevention programs
33 billion
Law enforcement along America’s borders
49 billion To arrest more than 37 million nonviolent drug offenders
121 billion
1 Trillion ($1,000,000,000,0000)Since first declared in 1970 by President Nixon, the United States' war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives.
HOW MUCH MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT BY THE US IN 40 YEARS?
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The first drug-fighting budget was $100 MILLION.
The proposed budget for fiscal year 2011 of the Obama Administration was 15.6 billion
HOW HAS THE WAR ON DRUGS CHANGED THE US CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM?
Number of people arrested in 2013 in the U.S. on nonviolent drug charges - the highest incarceration rate in the world
1,574,700prisoners
More than 1.57 million inmates sat behind bars in federal, state, and county prisons and jails around the country as of December 31, 2013. In the federal prisons, more than half of those sentenced to a stints of a year or longer are still there for drug crimes.
Highest Incarceration Rate in the World
In terms of police powers, civil assets forfeitures have been justi-fied to take the drug dealing organizations assets- cash in particular- and use the gains to fund more anti-drug-operations.
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Criminal forfeiture occurs after someone is convicted of a crime - the government seizes all property related to that crime (such as a car that was used to commit a robbery or money earned selling drugs).
Civil Assets Forfeitures
Number of students who have lost federal financial aid eligibility because of a drug conviction
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200,000+students
The nation's drug laws punish students who receive financial aid with drug convictions. After navigating the criminal justice system, these young people then face an enormous barrier when moving forward with their education. Federal grant and loan programs assist millions of students each year that would not otherwise have the opportunity to attend college.
Lost of Federal Financial Aid Eligibility
IS THE WAR ON DRUGS SUCCEEDING?
In the US, the war on drugs mostly impacts minority, particularly black, communities. Although black communities aren't more likely to use or sell drugs, African-Americans are 13 times more likely to go to jail for drugs than whites.
Is war on drugs racist?
Need of Treatment
70% 80%
It is estimated that 70 to 85 percent of the United States’ inmates are in need of substance abuse treatment, which is a far more effective means of handling drug offenders.
Public health policies as top priority
Congress has appropriated $2.4 billion to fight the cartels, as partof the security coop-eration agreement between the US and Mexican governments. That money supports a failed war in which tens of thousands have been killed and thousands more tortured.
The war in Mexico
100,000+ Number of people killed in Mexico's drug war since 2006
SOURCEShttp://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/13/ap-impact-years-trillion-war-drugs-failed-meet-goals/http://www.thehouseilivein.org/get-involved/drug-war-today/http://ssdp.org/assets/2012/07/drug-wars-infographic-600x18601.jpeghttp://www.vox.com/cards/war-on-drugs-marijuana-cocaine-heroin-meth/drug-war-law-enforcement-police-militarization-privacyhttp://www.drugpolicy.org/drug-war-statisticshttp://drug-war.us/http://www.alternet.org/drugs/5-nobel-prize-economists-call-end-failed-war-drugshttp://billmoyers.com/2015/03/27/can-say-blowback-spanish/
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