MARIJUANA USE UP 4000% SINCE IT WAS BANNED IN 1937
Bernd Debusmann, Reuters - America's alcohol prohibition lasted 13 years, filled the country's prisons, inspired contempt for the law among millions, bred corruption and produced Al Capone. What it did not do was keep Americans from drinking.
America's marijuana prohibition drew into its 72nd year this month. It has created a huge underground industry catering to users, helped the U.S. prison population balloon into the world's largest, and diverted the resources of American law enforcement. What it has not done is keep Americans from using marijuana.
On the contrary. Since 1937, the year marijuana was outlawed, its use in the United States has gone up by 4,000 percent, according to the Marijuana Policy Project, a Washington-based lobby group which advocates regulating the drug similar to alcohol. A recent World Health Organization study of marijuana use in 17 countries placed Americans at the top of the list.
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Some folks think I'm crazy, foolish as can be.
They're just jealous cause I've been out in the backyard smokin' tea.
Say I can play the piano, an' I'm pretty good on the bass.
It ain't no lie I'll tell you why I been outside blowin' daze.
Gin and coca cola coca cola an' gin,
big fat stick of tea'll make me grin.
Gin and coca cola coca cola an' gin,
you keep the whiskey and give me the gin.
Folks think that I'm lazy foolish as can be.
If you're smokin' that jive when I pass by,
please save the roach for me.
( from Save the Roach for me by Buck Washington)
http://www.cato.org/raidmap/
Botched Paramilitary Police Raids:
An Epidemic of "Isolated Incidents"
"If a widespread pattern of [knock-and-announce] violations were shown . . . there would be reason for grave concern."
—Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in Hudson v. Michigan, June 15, 2006.
An interactive map of botched SWAT and paramilitary police raids, released in conjunction with the Cato policy paper "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids," by Radley Balko
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