"He who opens a school door, closes a prison." --Victor Hugo.
"DRUG WAR TABLES AND CHARTS. Just Say KNOW!"*11-98. 1998 USA drug war legislation. [A summary. In 1998 Republicans (GOP) sponsored nearly all the bad bills].| Click HERE for GOP links section below.
Focussed, Drug-War, Link and Chart Compilations.
DRUG WAR TABLES AND CHARTS TO FIGHT THE DARK SIDE (THE DRUG WARRIORS and PETRO-PHARM-INC.) and DARTH VADER (DRUG CZAR GENERALISSIMO BARRY McCAFFREY). Exposing the U.S. Republican (GOP) Drug War feudalism, and Republican Fundamentalist Drug War Jihad. JUST SAY KNOW! THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON TRUTH! |
--- LAST UPDATED JANUARY 21, 1999. This beast of a webpage first created in 1998. (3 X 666 = 1998). ;-) This article is: http://www.legalize-usa.org/tom/charts.htm *Tables and Charts against Drug War, and Petro-Pharm-Inc.. [Exposing the U.S. Republican (GOP) drug-war feudalism, and Republican Fundamentalist Drug War Jihad. Clickable Links and clickable article Table of Contents. Please use eco@mailcity.com to send updated data, URLs, table ideas, feedback, etc.. All is read. Can't promise to reply].| --- |
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http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98dec/prisons.htm
*12-98. The Prison-Industrial Complex. [Atlantic
Monthly magazine. Huge article detailing the incredible
corruption and horror of US incarceration].|
__________________________________________ ____Incarceration___Total________U.S._____ _______#Rate______Inmates____Population.__ |
__________________________________________ __1978__#203______452,790____222,584,545__ __1980__#220______501,886____228,289,000__ __1981__#241______555,114____230,480,000__ __1982__#263______610,767____232,641,000__ __1983__#275______645,713____234,721,000__ __1984__#288______681,282____236,789,000__ __1985__#311______742,579____238,948,000__ __1986__#331______799,172____241,105,000__ __1987__#352______856,906____243,291,000__ __1988__#386______948,703____245,537,000__ __1989__#434____1,076,685____247,962,000__ __1990__#458____1,146,401____250,538,000__ __1991__#480____1,216,664____253,391,000__ __1992__#504____1,292,347____256,274,000__ __1993__#527____1,364,881____258,907,000__ __1994__#562____1,469,947____261,391,000__ __1995__#598____1,577,845____263,861,000__ __1996__#618____1,646,020____266,324,000__ __1997__#645____1,725,842____267,636,000__ |
________#Rate____Inmates_____Population___ _________per______Total___________________ _______100,000____________________________ ____US_population_________________________ __________________________________________ |
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__________________________________________________ _____June30____________Dec.31__Dec.31_____________ _____Jail______Prison__Parole__Probation___Total__ |
__________________________________________________ 1975___________________143,164____________________ 1976___________________147,539____________________ 1977___________285,486_173,632___816,525__________ 1978_158,394___294,396_177,847___899,305_1,529,942 1979___________301,470_217,697_1,080,385__________ 1980_182,288___319,598_220,438_1,118,097_1,840,421 1981_195,085___360,029_225,539_1,225,934_2,006,587 1982_207,853___402,914_224,604_1,357,264_2,192,635 1983_221,815___423,898_246,440_1,582,947_2,475,100 1984_233,018___448,264_266,992_1,740,948_2,689,222 1985_254,986___487,593_300,203_1,968,712_3,011,494 1986_272,736___526,436_326,259_2,114,821_3,240,252 1987_294,092___562,814_362,748_2,247,158_3,466,812 1988_341,893___606,810_407,596_2,386,427_3,742,726 1989_393,303___683,382_456,803_2,522,125_4,055,613 1990_403,019___743,382_531,407_2,670,234_4,348,042 1991_424,129___792,535_590,198_2,729,322_4,536,184 1992_441,781___850,566_658,601_2,811,611_4,762,559 1993_455,500___909,381_676,100_2,903,160_4,944,141 1994_479,800___990,147_690,371_2,981,022_5,141,340 1995_499,300_1,078,545_700,174_3,096,529_5,374,548 1996_518,492_1,127,528_676,045_3,161,205_5,483,270 1997_567,079_1,158,763_685,033_3,261,888_5,672,763 |
_____Jail_____Prison___Parole__Probation__Total___ __________________________________________________ |
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Prison figures are for December 31 every year through 1996. For
1997 the June 30 figure is used since the cited BJS (Bureau of
Justice Statistics) report only has the "in custody"
number for that date so far (Note the BJS explanations given for
"jurisdiction" and "custody"). Sum of Jail
and Prison equals Total Inmates. Please use a
fixed-width/monospace/monotype font such as Courier, Monaco, etc.
so that the chart columns line up better.
1. "Between then [1940, at the
end of the Great Depression] and 1980, the [incarceration] rate
hovered in a range between 160 and 200 [sum of jail and prison inmates per 100,000 US
population]. Then it took off
[FORFEITURE LAWS AND VASTLY EXPANDED,
MANDATORY-MINIMUM DRUG LAW SENTENCES, etc.], reaching 319 by
1985, 473 by 1990 and 519 last year [1993]. These are levels
normally associated with POLICE STATES" (Newsday, 9/16/94,
emphasis and [bracketed] info added).
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t621.pdf
*t621.pdf [Number and rate (per 100,000 total resident
population, and also by gender) of sentenced prisoners in State
and Federal institutions on December 31, by sex, United States,
1925-95 (Table 6.21). Acrobat file. Incarceration rate
for prisoners (DOESN'T INCLUDE JAIL INMATES) wanders around
within range of 93 to 139 prisoners per 100,000 U.S. population
from 1928 through 1980. Only in 1981 does it begin to rise sharply
with the beginning of the Reagan-Bush reign].|
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The Millennium? Orange Alert:
Christian Coalition, Keebler Elves, and the Gnomes of
Switzerland. Darth Vader shows one of his faces. Evil Incarnate:
REAGANOMICS, the plastic
credit beast (worldwide plastic credit cards), and the Reagan
Revolution (and Bush, Clinton....). Ronald (6) Wilson
(6) Reagan (6). "... a mark on his right hand
or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he
had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the NUMBER OF HIS
NAME" (Revelation 13:16-17). Think of the odds! A world
leader! Read Revelation 13:3,14,16,17,18. "One of the heads
of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal
wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and
followed the beast" Revelation 13:3). Reagan's assassination
wound passed his initial Reaganomics, "supply-side,"
"trickle-down," bills (Some call it "Crony
Capitalism"). The (even-then) near-senile, mindless
"beast" ridden by the rising dark side of the force.
Remember Nancy Reagan and "Just Say No"?
Press articles reported on Nancy Reagan whispering lines to a
spaced-out President Reagan at public appearances during
his presidency (January1981 to January 1989). Electronic fingerprint identification (mark of the
hand) is already in use by banks, border patrol, etc.. Electronic
retina identification (mark of the forehead) is also already in
use. You are "marked" for Reaganomics: The whole world
blindly allows the concentration of a higher and higher
percentage of total wealth (and thus power) into the hands of a
smaller and smaller percentage of the world's population. As
concentrated, or more concentrated, than just before the last
worldwide Great Depression. Which led directly to the most
destructive war in history (World War 2). The next big war (if
allowed) can only be an Armageddon. If Mother Earth or our alien
"gardeners" don't wipe out humans first.
http://epn.org/prospect/22/22wolf.html
*Edward N. Wolff, "How the Pie is Sliced" The
American Prospect no. 22 (Summer 1995):
58-64 [lots of charts throughout. Those at end loaded first].|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n998.a05.html
*11/98. US: OPED: Big Banking May Become Big
Brother.|
http://users.uniserve.com/~synergy/
http://www.legalize-usa.org/documents/HTML/feudalism.htm
http://www.legalize-usa.org/documents/PDF/feudalism.pdf
*Feudalism. [amazing free online/offline book about money and
power in USA. Whole book can be downloaded if desired (at first
link for sure), and clickable index works offline].|
http://users.uniserve.com/~synergy/indexp1h.htm
*Feudalism. massive, awesome, clickable index for book.|
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At midyear 1997 there
were 99,175 federal prison inmates and 1,059,588
state prison inmates. At midyear 1997: 1 in 155
Americans were behind bars. At the end of 1997
(December 1 US resident population of 268,765,000): At least 2.1
percent (1 in 47) Americans of ALL ages were under some
form of correctional supervision--jail, prison, parole,
probation. At yearend 1997
"About 2.9 percent of the U.S. ADULT population
[age 18 and over], or about one in
every 35 adults, were incarcerated or on probation or
parole." In 1997 women made up 6.4% of state
and federal prison inmates. In 1996 blacks made up around 49.4%
of prison inmates. Whites made up 47.9%. Need jail percentages.
It costs an average of over $20,000 a year per U.S. inmate.
http://www.hr95.org/hr_faces.htm
*Faces of HR95. ["Human Rights
95." Drug War inmate photos, stories. Federal
prison statistics, costs, etc.].|
http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/nation/intfile1-1.txt
*Monthly estimates of the United States population: April 1, 1980
onward. [December 1 resident population used for 1980
through 1996 in chart above. July 1 figure used in 1997].|
http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/nation/popclockest.txt
*Historical National Population Estimates: July 1, 1900 to July
1, 1997 [July 1 Resident population plus armed forces outside US.
This total used for years before 1980].|
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/corr2.txt
*Correctional populations in the United States,
1980-95. Probation, Jail, Prison, Parole. (Jail
plus Prison equals Total Inmates). This chart's text
data used above through 1995.|
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/corr2.htm
*Bureau of Justice Statistics Correctional Population
Trends Chart [actual timeline chart].|
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/p97.txt
*Prisoners in 1997. They use December 1 U.S. resident population
to get incarceration rates, too. 1996 and 1997 inmate data from
this source. And percentage women and blacks data.|
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/papp97.pr
*Year-end 1997 Parole and Probation.|
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/data/corpop09.wk1
*corpop09.wk1 [Jail Inmates in Custody. Got 1978 figure here.
Used MS Excel for the wk1 files listed here. Just click on URLs
here and when asked, designate Excel or other spreadsheet. It
will then open file automatically].|
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/data/corpop10.wk1
*corpop10.wk1 [Prisoners in Custody. A 1978 figure here].|
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/data/corpop11.wk1
*corpop11.wk1 [Adults on Probation. For 1977-1979 figures].|
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/data/corpop12.wk1
*corpop12.wk1 [Adults on Parole. For 1975-79 figures].|
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/data/corpop01.wk1
*corpop01.wk1 [Prisoners sentenced to more than a year. 1977-79
figures].|
http://www.sproject.com/press-12.htm
http://www.sentencingproject.org/pubs/tsppubs/9030data.html
*Americans Behind Bars: Data Sheet. DATA - INTERNATIONAL
USE OF INCARCERATION [inmates per 100,000 people. USA
RATE 5 TO 15 TIMES HIGHER than ALL Western
nations].|
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_________________________________________________ ________NATION_________INCARCERATION_RATE_____%__ ___________________per_100,000_population._______ ___________________________1985__|__1995___CHANGE |
_________________________________________________ ________Russia_______________________690_________ #1.0____United_States_______313______600______+92 ________Belarus______________________505_________ ________Ukraine______________________390_________ ________Latvia______________640______375______-41 ________Lithuania___________405______360______-11 ________Singapore____________________287_________ ________Moldova______________________275_________ ________Estonia_____________455______270______-41 ________South_Africa_________________265_________ ________Cook_Islands_________________225_________ ________Hong_Kong____________________207_________ ________Romania_____________260______200______-23 ________Czech_Republic______270______190______-30 ________Thailand_____________________181_________ ________Poland______________270______170______-37 ________Slovakia____________225______150______-33 ________South_Korea__________________137_________ ________Kiribati_____________________130_________ #4.7____New_Zealand__________________127_________ #4.8____Portugal_____________90______125______+39 ________Fiji_________________________123_________ ________Hungary_____________220______120______-45 #5.2____Canada_______________________115_________ #5.2____Luxembourg___________________115_________ ________Brunei_Darussalam____________110_________ ________Bulgaria_____________________110_________ #5.5____Scotland____________100______110______+10 ________Macau________________________107_________ #5.7____Northern_Ireland_____________105_________ #5.7____Spain________________60______105______+75 ________Malaysia_____________________104_________ ________China________________________103_________ #6.0____England/Wales________90______100______+11 #6.3____France_______________75_______95______+27 #7.1____Germany______________90_______85_______-6 #7.1____Austria_____________120_______85______-29 #7.1____Italy_________________________85_________ #7.5____Switzerland___________________80_________ ________Turkey_______________90_______80______-11 #8.0____Belgium______________65_______75______+15 #9.2____Sweden_______________50_______65______+30 #9.2____Netherlands__________35_______65______+86 #9.2____Denmark______________65_______65_______-- #10.0___Finland______________80_______60______-25 #10.9___Greece_______________35_______55______+57 #10.9___Ireland______________55_______55_______-- #10.9___Norway_______________45_______55______+22 ________Croatia_______________________55_________ #10.9___Malta_________________________55_________ ________Solomon_Islands_______________46_________ #15.0___Iceland_______________________40_________ ________Bangladesh____________________37_________ ________Japan_________________________37_________ ________Slovenia_____________70_______30______-57 ________Cyprus_______________30_______30_______-- ________Cambodia______________________26_________ ________Philippines___________________26_________ ________India_________________________24_________ _________________________________________________ |
OVERALL (sum of prison and jail)
INCARCERATION RATE per 100,000 POPULATION. In
descending order by highest rate in 1995. 1985 rate not known for
some nations. This is an uncopyrighted compilation of several
Sentencing Project charts. In addition, # equals Western (long democratic traditions)
nation, with number of times higher United States rate was in
1995. US rate in midyear 1997 was 645 inmates per
100,000 population. Please use a fixed-width/monospace/monotype
font such as Courier, Monaco, etc. in order to get the columns to
line up better.
http://www.sproject.com/press-12.htm
http://www.sentencingproject.org/pubs/tsppubs/9030data.html
*Americans Behind Bars: Data Sheet. DATA -
INTERNATIONAL USE OF INCARCERATION [inmates per
100,000 people. USA RATE 5 TO 15 TIMES HIGHER than
ALL Western nations].|
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__________________________________________________ Percentages.______________________________________ Drug_use_in_the_population_of_12_years_and________ older_in_the_U.S._and_the_Netherlands_(1997)._____ __________Used__________Used__________Used________ __________ever__________past_year_____past_month__ __________USA__Holland__USA__Holland__USA__Holland __________________________________________________ tobacco___70.5*_67.9____32.7*_38.1____29.6*_34.3__ cannabis__32.9__15.6_____9_____4.5_____5.1___2.5__ cocaine___10.5___2.1_____1.9___0.6_____0.7___0.2__ inhalants__5.7___0.5_____1.1___0.1_____0.4____NM__ alcohol___81.9__90.2____64.1__82.5____51.4__73.3__ heroin_____0.9___0.3_____0.3___0.1______NM____NM__ NM_=_not_measurable.____*cigarettes_only__________ __________________________________________________ |
Source U.S.: National Household Survey 1997
SAMHSA, Office of applied studies, Washington DC. Source the
Netherlands: M. Abraham, P. Cohen, M. De Winter: Licit and
Illicit drug use in the Netherlands Uva/CBS, CEDRO.
http://www.frw.uva.nl/cedro/press/npo1en.html
*1-99. National estimates, drug use in the
Netherlands available, for the first time.|
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_____________________________________________________ Issue_______________United_States___Netherlands__U.K. ===================================================== |
Last_month_use_of____________________________ ____marijuana_by_high______23.7%________18.1% ____school_seniors.________(1997)_______(1996) ===================================================== Last_month_use_of__________________________ ____cannabis_by_15_year____________________ ____olds_(in_1995).________16%__________15%______24% ===================================================== Any_lifetime_use___________________________ ____of_cannabis_by_________________________ ____older_teens_(1994).____38%__________30% ===================================================== Any_lifetime_use_of________________________ ____cannabis_by_15_year____________________ ____olds_(in_1995).________34%__________29%______41% ===================================================== Incarceration_rate________________________ ____per_100,000____________645__________73 ____population_(1997)._per_100,000__per_100,000 ===================================================== Heroin_addicts_____________430__________160 ____(in_1995)._________per_100,000__per_100,000 ===================================================== Murder_rate________________8.22_________1.8 ____(in_1996)._________per_100,000__per_100,000 ===================================================== Per_capita_spending________________________ ____on_drug_related________________________ ____law_enforcement._______$81__________$27 ===================================================== |
Issue_______________United_States___Netherlands__U.K. _____________________________________________________ |
http://www.drugsense.org/barry.htm
*McCaffrey Ad [produced by DrugSense to counter McCzar
misinformation].|
http://www.netherlands-embassy.org/drug-inf.htm
*Royal Netherlands Embassy -
Washington, D.C. [drug policy and crime statistics, comparing USA
and Holland].|
http://www.frw.uva.nl/cedro/library/craig/mccaffrey.html
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98/n596/a06.html
*7-98. Het Parool (Dutch newspaper, "The
Word"). Why Dutch Drug Policy Threatens the U.S. [" The
Right-wing Republicans who control Congress ... The U.S. drug
control complex fears Dutch drug policy like the Catholic Church
feared Gallileo"].|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n613.a02.html/all
*7-98. In The Drug War, Fantasy Beats Facts [McCzar,
and Holland's lower violent crime and MJ-use rates].|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n600.a05.html/all
*7-98. US: PUB LTE: Defending
The Netherlands' Drug-Control Policy [Dutch
Ambassador sticks it to McCzar!].|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n601.a04.html/ghdex
*7-98. US: The Drug War Can't Abide Honest Stats [LA
TIMES! on HOLLAND, McCaffrey, Harm Reduction].|
http://www.marijuananews.com/norml_director_explains_to_the_d.htm
*7-98. NORML Director Explains To The Dutch
Why Their Drug Policy Threatens DEAland
Prohibitionists.|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n655.a05.html/all
*8-98. Dutch, U.S. Trade Statistics On Drugs, Crime. [Dutch
officials stick it to Generalissimo McGaffe].|
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HOW DANGEROUS IS MARIJUANA...
IN COMPARISON TO OTHER SUBSTANCES?
(NEED MORE RECENT DATA AND WEB SOURCES AND WEB ADDRESS URLs.)
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A chart below from the back cover of the March, 1995 edition of
"The Emperor Wears No Clothes: Hemp & the Marijuana
Conspiracy," by Jack Herer. Please use a
fixed-width/monospace/monotype font such as Courier, Monaco, etc.
so that the chart columns line up better. Quote begins:
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NUMBER OF AMERICAN DEATHS PER YEAR that result directly or primarily from the following selected causes nationwide, according to World Almanacs, Life Insurance Actuarial (death) Rates, and the last 20 years of U.S. Surgeon Generals' reports. (Figures are for 1994 from the federal government's Bureau of Mortality Statistics and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, et al.--the last complete year at the time of this writing.)
Number_of_American_Deaths_per_Year.____________ _______________________________________________ |
TOBACCO_____________________340,000_to_450,000 |
ALCOHOL_(Not_including_________________150,000+ ________50%_of_all____________________________ ________highway_deaths_and____________________ ________65%_of_all_murders).__________________ |
ASPIRIN_(Including_________________180_to_1000+ ________deliberate_overdose)._________________ |
CAFFEINE_(From_stress,__________1000_to_10,000 ________ulcers_and____________________________ ________triggering_irregular__________________ ________heartbeats,_etc.).____________________ |
"LEGAL"_DRUG_OVERDOSE_________14,000_to_27,000 ________(Deliberate_or_____[see_table_below!] ________accidental)_from_legal,_______________ ________prescribed_or_patent__________________ ________medicines_and/or_mixing_______________ ________with_alcohol,_e.g.____________________ ________Valium/alcohol._______________________ |
ILLICIT_DRUG_OVERDOSE___________3,800_to_5,200 ________(Deliberate___________________________ ________or_accidental)_from___________________ ________all_illegal_drugs.____________________ |
THEOPHYLLINE_(Pharmaceutical_drug___________50 ________legally_prescribed_for_asthma)________ ________Theophylline_is_also_responsible______ ________for_6,500_Emergency_Room_admits_______ ________and_1,000_cases_of_permanent__________ ________brain_damage_per_year.________________ |
MARIJUANA__________________________________0 ______________________________________________ |
LOWEST TOXICITY.
100% of the studies done at dozens of American universities and
research facilities show pot toxicity does not exist. Medical
history does not record anyone dying from an overdose of
marijuana (UCLA, Harvard, Temple, etc.).
(Jack Herer quote ends.)
http://jackherer.com/
*Jack Herer's Home Page.|
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/policy/briefing8.htm
*"DAWN Drug-Related Deaths" [ONDCP].|
http://www.olywa.net/when/images/figure08.gif
*Deaths from Drug Use per 100,000 drug Users.|
http://www.cannabis.com/linkscgi/links.shtml#medical
*MEDICAL MARIJUANA LINKS GALORE! USE, SAFETY, MYTHS,
FACTS. Linkname: Medical [cannabis.com: Cannabis
Related Links]. Medical section. MANY MEDICAL LINKS.
ONE-OF-A-KIND SOURCE. Page down to "medical" section if
sent to top of list.|
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LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH in the USA in 1996 (unless marked otherwise). According to the Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Health Statistics, and the Journal of American Medical Association (for adverse drug reactions death numbers; April 14, 1998 issue of JAMA; 279:1200-1205, 1998).
LEADING_CAUSES_OF_DEATH_in_the_USA_in_1996___ (unless_year_marked_otherwise).______________ _____________________________________________ Total_deaths_______________________2,322,265 ____________________________________________ |
1.__Heart_Disease____________________733,834 2.__Cancer___________________________544,278 3.__Stroke___________________________160,431 |
4.__Adverse_Drug_Reactions_(1994)____106,000* ______from_legal_drugs_at_doses_____________ ______used_for_prevention,__________________ ______diagnosis,_or_therapy.________________ |
5.__Pulmonary_disease________________106,146 6.__Accidents_________________________93,874 7.__Pneumonia/influenza_______________82,579 8.__Diabetes__________________________61,559 9.__HIV/AIDS__________________________32,665 10._Suicide___________________________30,862 11._Liver_disease_____________________25,135 ....________________________________________ 14._Homicide__________________________20,738 _____________________________________________ |
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98/n272/a03.html
*4-98. Drug Reactions Kill Over 100,000 a Year in U.S.|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98/n273/a04.html
*4-98. Medications Kill 100,000 Annually, Study Says.
[Petrochemical-Pharmaceutical-Complex, Inc.].|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98/n327/a07.html
*5-98. US: Give Them Their Pills, The Fuddled Masses.|
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/fastats/deaths.htm
*Statistical Rolodex - Deaths. [USA-1996.
National Center for Health Statistics].|
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/fastats/homicide.htm
*Statistical Rolodex - Homicide. [USA-1996.
National Center for Health Statistics].|
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"While African Americans
constitute 13% of all monthly drug users, they represent 35% of
arrests for drug possession, 55% of convictions and 74% of prison
sentences."
http://www.sproject.com/rep4.htm
*10-95. YOUNG BLACK AMERICANS. [and the criminal justice
system].|
http://mojo.calyx.net/~schaffer/LIBRARY/histdrug.html
*The History of The Drug Laws. [Racism of Drug War.
History in vast detail].|
http://www.cjcj.org/jpi/nysomexec.html
*12-98. New York State of Mind. [Racist effects of
GOP's 1973 Rockefeller drug laws in New York. State prisons cost
more per year than higher education. Table 2 chart
there compares 1980 to 1997. The 1973 Republican
Rockefeller laws are the mandatory-minimum model that ultra-right
Reagan-Bush Republicans (mainly) passed in many states in the
1980's].|
http://www.legalize-usa.org/documents/HTML/racism.htm
*Racism, U.S. Drug War, Young Black Men, &
American Revolution!|
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Estimated number of sentenced BLACK AND WHITE MALE PRISONERS per 100,000 male residents in the U.S (of same race as inmate). [FIGURES HERE DO NOT EVEN INCLUDE JAILS!]. Please use a fixed-width/monospace/monotype font such as Courier, Monaco, etc. so that the chart columns line up.
________________________________ Male_prisoners_(no_jail_inmates) per_100,000_male_U.S._residents_ of_same_race_as_inmate._________ ________________________________ Year________White____Black______ 1985_________246_____1,559______ 1990_________339_____2,376______ 1995_________461_____3,250______ ________________________________ |
In 1993, the last year of apartheid, in
pre-Mandela South Africa there were 851 BLACK MALE inmates per
100,000 black males!
http://www.sproject.com/rep3.htm
*INTERNATIONAL USE OF INCARCERATION [1995 report of
1993 data].|
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/p96.txt
*BJS: "Prisoners in 1996". Male prisoner
data above.|
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Sentenced MALE prisoners under State or Federal jurisdiction per 100,000 residents, by race, Hispanic origin, and age. [FIGURES HERE DO NOT INCLUDE JAILS!]. Number of sentenced male prisoners per 100,000 residents of each group. 1996.
____________________________________________ Age________Total___White___Black___Hispanic_ ____________________________________________ |
18_to_19_____771_____263___2,615______1,303 20_to_24___1,886_____762___6,740______2,774 25_to_29___2,024_____829___8,319______2,609 30_to_34___1,845_____862___7,052______2,547 35_to_39___1,615_____759___6,601______2,278 40_to_44___1,244_____606___4,824______2,308 45_to_54_____692_____380___2,768______1,313 55+__________151______96_____505________413 ============================================ Total________809_____370___3,098______1,278_ ____________________________________________ |
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/p97.txt
*BJS: "Prisoners in 1997". Detailed male prisoner data
above.|
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Number of Hispanic PRISONERS in U.S. State or Federal Prisons. Percent of Prisoners who are Hispanic. People of HISPANIC origin may be of any race. [FIGURES HERE DO NOT INCLUDE JAILS!]. Percent of U.S. Population that is Hispanic (for July 1, 1990, 92, 94, 96, 97).
____________________________________________ _____Hispanic_____________|_Hispanic________ _____prisoners____________|_prisoners_per___ __________________________|_100,000_Hispanic __________________________|_residents.______ ____________________________________________ _____________Prison__U.S._|_________________ Year__Number____%____Pop%_|Total_Male_Female __________________________|_________________ |
1985__54,672__10.9%_______|_285___542___22 1990_103,065__13.3%__9.1%_|_437___817___43 1991_112,520__13.7%_______|_461___863___44 1992_125,018__14.1%__9.6%_|_493___928___45 1993_138,699__14.6%_______|_529___994___50 1994_156,908__14.9%_10.1%_|_580__1092___53 1995_174,292__15.5%_______|_622__1174___57 1996________________10.7%_|_______________ 1997________________11.0%_|_______________ __________________________|_________________ |
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/p96.txt
*BJS: "Prisoners in 1996." Hispanic
prisoner data.|
http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/nation/intfile3-1.txt
*Population Data [by Sex, Race, and Hispanic
Origin].|
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Alabama________X_______X_______X_______X______ |
State_____Prison_Probation_Parole_Ex-felons___ ______________________________________________ |
http://www.hrw.org/reports98/vote/usvot98o.htm#FELONY
*LOSING THE VOTE. The Impact of Felony
Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States. [Human
Rights Watch].|
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Laws proposed, pushed, and passed in the mid-1980's mainly at the behest of the REAGAN REPUBLICAN REICH. Just Say "Nancy Reagan." 1 kilo is 1 kilogram, which equals 1000 grams. 1 pound equals 454 grams. 1 ounce equals 28.35 grams. Various states' 2 and 3-strikes laws double these sentences, or give life sentences. Please use a fixed-width/monospace/monotype font such as Monaco, Courier, etc. so that the chart columns line up.
Non-violent_Possession_only!______________________ Type_of_Drug.____5-year_sentence________10_years__ _________________without_parole.______w/o_parole__ ================================================== |
LSD______________1_gram_[10_to_20_______10_grams _________________doses_if_carrier_______________ _________________weight_included]_______________ ================================================== Marijuana________100_plants__________1000_plants _________________or_100_kilos._____or_1000_kilos ================================================== Crack_cocaine____5_grams_[heavy_________50_grams _________________user's_1_to_10_________________ _________________day_supply]____________________ ================================================== Powder_cocaine___500_grams_______________5_kilos ================================================== Heroin___________100_grams________________1_kilo ================================================== Methamphetamine__10_grams_[heavy_______100_grams _________________user's_5_to_20_________________ _________________day_supply]____________________ ================================================== PCP______________10_grams______________100_grams __________________________________________________ |
The federal sentences above are for NON-VIOLENT
possession only. Similar laws exist at the state
level. One must serve 80% of the sentence before parole is even
considered. 1 gram of powder cocaine is turned into .89 grams of
crack. Per capita use of crack is higher among whites than
blacks.
http://www.famm.org/what2.html
*FAMM: Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Table.|
http://www.sproject.com/rep4.htm
*YOUNG BLACK AMERICANS.[Republican 100 to 1
crack/powder ratio]|
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t60009.pdf
*t60009.pdf [U.S. Federal prison population, and
number and percent sentenced for drug offenses, 1970-97. Acrobat
file. A great Drug War trend chart in itself].|
http://www.drcnet.org/rapid/1998/5-8.html#jurors
*USA. Mandatory Life Without Parole for Woman after
First Offense.|
http://www.hr95.org/newbook.htm
*Shattered Lives: Portraits From America's Drug War.
Book by Mikki Norris, Chris Conrad, and Virginia
Resner.|
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_________________________________ Offense_____________Time_Served__ _________________________________ |
Drugs.______________82.4_months Firearms.___________73.8_months Sexual_Abuse._______66.9_months Assault.____________33.4_months Manslaughter._______26.8_months Burglary/Breaking______________ __and_Entering._____24.6_months Auto_Theft._________20.0_months _________________________________ |
http://www.famm.org/fact5.html
*FAMM Facts [Average Federal Sentences.
LONGEST FOR DRUGS!].|
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__________________________________________________ FEDERAL_PRISON_POPULATION_OVER_TIME/DRUG_OFFENDERS __________________________________________________ Year____Total____Total______Total_______Percentage ______sentenced__sentenced__sentenced___of________ ________and______pop._______drug________sentenced_ ____unsentenced_____________offenders___prisoners_ _____population_________________________who_are___ ________________________________________drug______ ________________________________________offenders_ __________________________________________________ |
1970____21,266___20,686______3,384______16.3%_____ 1971____20,891___20,529______3,495______17.0%_____ 1972____22,090___20,729______3,523______16.9%_____ 1973____23,336___22,038______5,652______25.6%_____ 1974____23,690___21,769______6,203______28.4%_____ 1975____23,566___20,692______5,540______26.7%_____ 1976____27,033___24,135______6,425______26.6%_____ 1977____29,877___25,673______6,743______26.2%_____ 1978____27,674___23,501______5,981______25.4%_____ 1979____24,810___21,539______5,468______25.3%_____ 1980____24,252___19,023______4,749______24.9%_____ 1981____26,195___19,765______5,076______25.6%_____ 1982____28,133___20,938______5,518______26.3%_____ 1983____30,214___26,027______7,201______27.6%_____ 1984____32,317___27,622______8,152______29.5%_____ 1985____36,042___27,623______9,491______34.3%_____ 1986____40,505___31,831_____12,119______38.1%_____ 1987____43,683___34,163_____14,354______42.0%_____ 1988____43,401___34,680_____15,526______44.8%_____ 1989____50,173___38,969_____19,459______49.9%_____ 1990____57,331___47,847_____25,037______52.3%_____ 1991____63,711___53,526_____30,498______57.0%_____ 1992____70,346___61,026_____36,349______59.6%_____ 1993____79,483___70,557_____42,945______60.9%_____ 1994____85,290___76,186_____46,743______61.4%_____ 1995____89,564___79,347_____48,118______60.6%_____ 1996____94,215___83,515_____50,754______60.8%_____ 1997___100,639___89,748_____54,099______60.3%_____ 1998*__106,536___95,522_____56,291______58.9%_____ __________________________________________________ |
*Year to date. Note: Data for 1970 to 1976 are
for June 30; data for 1977 onwards are for September 30. Data are
for inmates in BOP facilities only (i.e., do not include inmates
in contract facilities).
http://www.jacksonville.net/~rantrave/fact0598.html
http://www.legalize-usa.org/rantnrave/fact0598.html
*FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS QUICK FACTS.
[chart info above is found here, and is easier to find than at
BOP website].|
http://www.bop.gov/
*BOP Home Page. [BOP is federal Bureau
of Prisons. Search for "quick facts" to get latest
figures].|
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"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, "My First Impression of the U.S.A.",
1921. (emphasis added).
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Need more info and sources. Please use a fixed-width/monospace/monotype font such as Courier, Monaco, etc. so that the chart columns line up.
____________________________________________ Nation_____________Homicide_Rate________Year ______________per_100,000_population________ ____________________________________________ |
United_States____________6.8____________1997 Canada___________________2.1____________1996 Colombia________________99._____________1993 England_and_Wales________1.4____________1996 Germany____________below_2._____________1996 Holland__________________1.8____________1996 Ireland____________below_2._____________1996 Italy______________below_2._____________1996 Latin_America___________17._____________1993 ____________________________________________ |
____________________________________ 1900_to_1997________________________ United_States_Homicide_rates._______ ____________________________________ |
_1900_1.2_____1934_9.5_____1968_7.3 _1901_1.2_____1935_8.3_____1969_7.7 _1902_1.2_____1936_8_______1970_8.3 _1903_1.1_____1937_7.6_____1971_9.1 _1904_1.3_____1938_6.8_____1972_9.4 _1905_2.1_____1939_6.4_____1973_9.7 _1906_3.9_____1940_6.3_____1974_10.1 _1907_4.9_____1941_6_______1975_9.9 _1908_4.8_____1942_5.9_____1976_9 _1909_4.2_____1943_5.1_____1977_9.1 _1910_4.6_____1944_5_______1978_9.2 _1911_5.5_____1945_5.7_____1979_10 _1912_5.4_____1946_6.4_____1980_10.7 _1913_6.1_____1947_6.1_____1981_10.3 _1914_6.2_____1948_5.9_____1982_9.6 _1915_5.9_____1949_5.4_____1983_8.6 _1916_6.3_____1950_5.3_____1984_8.4 _1917_6.9_____1951_4.9_____1985_8.4 _1918_6.5_____1952_5.2_____1986_9 _1919_7.2_____1953_4.8_____1987_8.7 _1920_6.8_____1954_4.8_____1988_9 _1921_8.1_____1955_4.5_____1989_9.3 _1922_8_______1956_4.6_____1990_10 _1923_7.8_____1957_4.5_____1991_10.5 _1924_8.1_____1958_4.5_____1992_10 _1925_8.3_____1959_4.6_____1993_10.1 _1926_8.4_____1960_4.7_____1994_9.6 _1927_8.4_____1961_4.7_____1995_8.7 _1928_8.6_____1962_4.8_____1996_8.2 _1929_8.4_____1963_4.9_____1997_6.8 _1930_8.8_____1964_5.1_____________ _1931_9.2_____1965_5.5_____________ _1932_9_______1966_5.9_____________ _1933_9.7_____1967_6.8_____________ ___________________________________ |
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/hmrt.txt
*United States Homicide Rates 1900-95.
Bureau of Justice Statistics.|
http://www.netherlands-embassy.org/drug-inf.htm
*Royal Netherlands Embassy - Washington, D.C. [drug policy and
crime statistics, comparing USA and Holland].|
http://www.stats.gov.nt.ca/Bureau/StatInfo/Crime/hom61-96.html
*Homicide in Canada - 1996. [compares nations'
homicide rates].|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1074.a04.html/all
*11/98. US: Murder Rate Hit 30-Year Low In '97. [but
still astronomical!].|
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The prison-industrial complex is a
FACTORY for creating ever-more violent criminals from nonviolent
ones. 59% of all federal [prison] inmates, and 22%
of state prisoners, are there on DRUG CHARGES (Sentencing
Project). The MAJORITY(!!!) of
US inmates are in for DRUG-RELATED offenses, if the above drug
offenders are combined with the following: "The FBI has reported that almost one-third of
people convicted of robbery and burglary, and more than
one-quarter of people convicted of larceny, committed their
crimes to get money for drugs. Moreover, 6.5 percent of the
murders in the United States in 1990 occurred in
narcotics-related circumstances" (The Washington Post, Jan.
18, 1994). The Nov. 2, 1995 Chicago Tribune reported: "The
latest Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of U.S. prison inmates
in 1991 found that 27 percent of robbers admitted they committed
crimes to buy drugs; 30 percent of burglars said so, and 5
percent of convicted murderers did." Reader's Digest
(September 1996): "The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
estimates that half of all violent crime and a third of all
homicides are tied to narcotics." The Chicago Tribune Nov.
2, 1995 reports: "Although drugs and violent crime often are
linked in America, the violent crime rate in the Netherlands is
far lower than in the U.S., despite the Netherlands' more liberal
drug policies. There were 1.9 homicides in Holland per 100,000
people in 1993. The U.S. rate was 9.5 homicides per
100,000." A 1994 Sentencing Project report states:
"Rates of assault and murder with firearms are far higher in
the US than in comparable nations, with murder rates in the US
generally five to ten times the rate of most European
nations." The murder rate in America is 10 times higher than
in Britain, France or Germany, according to Dec. 18, 1995 US News
and World Report. "Since 1960, the number of violent
crimes committed in the U.S. has increased by more than 500%,
although the population has grown just 41%. According to the FBI,
nearly 2,000,000 violent crimes occurred in 1991 alone. In 1960,
that figure was less then 300,000" (May 1994, USA Today
magazine). ABC news did a report January 28, 1996
about Nashville's police department and the effect of putting
only 28 of their 300 detectives to work full-time on domestic
violence. In 1992, out of 78 murders in
Nashville, one third were because of domestic violence. Only one
detective back then worked on domestic violence. In contrast, in
1995 there were only 7 murders due to domestic violence. One
detective in Nashville said that no matter how many detectives
were assigned to narcotics, the narcotics crime rate would stay
the same. Domestic violence is the leading cause of
injury to US women, more than the combination of rapes, muggings,
and auto accidents. According to The Harvard Mental
Health Letter, August 1995, each year, one out of eight husbands
is physically aggressive at least once toward his wife and nearly
2 million women are severely assaulted by their male partners.
Washington Monthly, October 1995: "'We put millions of drug
offenders through the courts--and we have more people in jail per
capita than any country except Russia--but we're not affecting
the drug trade, let alone drug use,' says Robert
Sweet, U.S. district judge in the Southern district of New York.
'It's perfectly obvious,' Sweet says, 'that if you took the money
spent housing drug offenders and enforcing the drug laws, and
apply it to straight law enforcement, the results would be very
impressive.' Indeed, what politicians ignore is all
too clear to judges, prosecutors, and cops. 'The drug war can't
be won,' says Joseph McNamara, the former chief of police in
Kansas City and San Jose, who also spent 10 years on the New York
City force. 'Any cop will tell you that.'" As for nations
without long, genuinely-democratic traditions let's look at the
country with the highest murder rate in the world in 1993--Colombia,
the main DEATH-SQUAD narco-democracy, with the most drug-related
murders per capita. New Statesman & Society,
Dec 17 1993, says that "In 1991, there were 25,000 murders;
this year [1993], the total looks set to reach 30,000--a rate of
99 murders per 100,000 population, compared with an average of 17
per 100,000 in Latin America as a whole. 'Colombia is
clearly the most violent country that's not at war,' says
Alvaro Camacho, sociologist at Bogota's National
University." [must have had a lull in 1993 in the 'official'
war between the guerrillas and the government. The Drug War never
stopped. U.S. Southern Command (SouthCom) leader generalissimo
Barry McCaffrey (now Drug Czar) wouldn't have approved (then or
now) of that type of sanity. Because he's Drug Crazy.
Buy the book by Mike Gray!]
http://www.sproject.com/facts.htm
*Facts About Prisons and Prisoners
[Sentencing Project].|
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/corrtyp.txt
*[Yearly numbers in state prisons by offense,
1980-95].|
http://www.drugcrazy.com/chapter1.htm
*chapter1.htm [A Tale of Two Cities, chapter 1 of
Drug Crazy, by Mike Gray. Chicago's prohibition
violence now, and in the 1920's and 30's].|
http://www.shadeslanding.com/firearms/wod.crime.html
*Crime and the Drug War. [homicide rates before and
after prohibitions].|
http://www.mpp.org/arrests.html
*MPP: New Marijuana Arrest Record [marijuana arrests
1990-96].|
http://www.spr.org/docs/punk.html
*A Punk's Song. [prison rape. Terminology. Turning
nonviolent into violent. Prisoner power structure. Forced sex
slavery via fear of death. American gulags].|
http://www.spr.org/docs/stats.html
*Rape of Incarcerated Americans: A
Preliminary Statistical Look. [scary stats
considering that most US inmates are from Drug War/trade/money].|
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http://www.legalize-usa.org/documents/HTML/healthcare.htm
*Eco-Harm Reduction versus Drug War and PETRO-PHARM,
INC.. Cannabis, US Healthcare, Universal Healthcare, Total Taxes, Quality of Life, Mother
Earth.|
http://www.legalize-usa.org/legislation/1998dpf-review.htm
*11-98. 1998 USA drug war legislation. [A summary. In
1998 REPUBLICANS (GOP) sponsored nearly all the bad bills].|
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The Eco-Harm Reduction link above partially
explains the tables that follow. Many American drug policy reform
activists may be clueless why these tables have anything to do
with the Drug War. Americans, in general, ARE clueless about the
rest of the world. :-) Universal
Healthcare - I don't think anything is more
important to drug-war harm reduction, real security, safety,
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and property. "The
U.S. lags behind most industrialized nations in virtually all
significant public health measures, including life expectancy,
infant mortality, and vaccine coverage" (EXTRA! (Jan/Feb
1996). Lower all the other taxes, but
keep those for universal healthcare! Ironic thing is that universal healthcare
costs less, and gets better overall health statistics nationally.
Yes! Giving a damn costs less!
(Click Eco-Harm Reduction link above).
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I still believe that the USA is the only
Western nation that spends more than 10% of its GDP on total
healthcare costs. I need more recent figures and web
address URLs! Use a monospace/monotype
(fixed-width) font such as Courier, Monaco, etc. in order to get
the columns to line up. Legend for Chart:
A - Country [all except US have universal
healthcare]
B -
Per Capita Expenditures [1990 dollars]
C - As a Percent of Gross
Domestic Product (GDP)
____________________________________________ Total_1990_Healthcare_Expenditures._________ A_________________________B______________C__ Nation________________Per_Capita_______%GDP_ ____________________________________________ |
United_States__________$2,566_________12.1 _________________________________(+15%_in_1996) |
Canada__________________1,770__________9.3 France__________________1,532__________8.8 Sweden__________________1,451__________8.6 Germany_________________1,486__________8.1 Switzerland_____________1,633__________7.7 Italy___________________1,236__________7.7 Norway__________________1,184__________7.4 Japan___________________1,171__________6.5 United_Kingdom____________972__________6.2 ____________________________________________ |
SOURCE: Schieber, G.J., Poullier, J.-P., and
Greenwald, L.: U.S. Health Expenditure Performance: An
International Comparison and Data Update. Health Care Financing
Review 13(4): 1-88, Summer 1992.
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According to the July 1996 issue of "World and I," "The following list of nations comprises the 24 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and several of the Asian 'tigers' and 'tiger cubs' [Asian tigers and tiger cubs marked with a pound symbol #], the economically booming countries of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim. ... Each percentage represents tax receipts as a proportion of a nation's gross domestic product [GDP] in 1993 -- or 1992 in the cases of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand."
_________________________________________ Total_Taxes_as_a_percent_of_Gross_______ Domestic_Product_(GDP)._In_1993_________ (#_is_1992).____________________________ ________________________________________ |
[1]___Denmark_______________________49.9 [2]___Sweden________________________49.9 [3]___Netherlands___________________48.0 [4]___Italy_________________________47.8 [5]___Norway________________________45.7 [6]___Belgium_______________________45.7 [7]___Finland_______________________45.7 [8]___Luxembourg____________________44.6 [9]___France________________________43.9 [10]__Austria_______________________43.6 [11]__Greece________________________41.2 [12]__Germany_______________________39.0 |
[____-United_States-_________(37-38) To be fair, the USA should actually rank around here, since 75% to 100% of healthcare costs in most other western nations are paid by their taxes.] |
[13]__Ireland_______________________36.3 [14]__Canada________________________35.8 [15]__New_Zealand___________________35.7 [16]__Spain_________________________35.1 [17]__Britain_______________________33.6 [18]__Switzerland___________________33.2 [19]__Portugal______________________31.4 [20]__Iceland_______________________31.3 [21]__Malaysia_____[#]______________30.1 |
[22]_-United_States-___________29.7 [37-38% if one adds 7 to 8% for private-sector US healthcare costs] |
[23]__Japan_________________________29.1 [24]__Australia_____________________28.7 [25]__Singapore____[#]______________28.3 [26]__Taiwan_______[#]______________25.1 [27]__Turkey________________________23.5 [28]__Indonesia____[#]______________19.7 [29]__South_Korea__[#]______________18.2 [30]__Thailand_____[#]______________18.1 _________________________________________ |
The United States GDP was $6.738 trillion in
1994 (C-SPAN, 12-25-95). 15% of the 1994 U.S. GDP was $1.01
trillion! According to the February
1995 issue of HR (Human Resource) Magazine nearly all other
Western nations pay over 75% of their nation's total healthcare
costs through taxes.
"... new study by the Paris-based Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) ... The study asserts that a
country's political will to curb spending seems to be the most
important factor in controlling costs. ... Of the 17 nations in
the study, the national governments of 15 pay for at least 75
percent of their countries' health-care expenditures--the United States and Turkey were the
exceptions." Welfare
and food stamps for the unemployed cost far less
than universal healthcare. Figure it out. 15 million adult
unemployed (a high U.S. unemployment rate) plus 15 million
dependent children in the USA. Multiply 30 million times $500 a
month (many states' recipients do not receive even close to this)
times 12 months equals $180 billion, or less than 2.7%
of the 1994 U.S. GDP. And most welfare recipients
provide value for their checks because they are required to do
workfare work - usually menial work such as litter collection,
cleaning government buildings, trash collection, etc. for their
welfare. Welfare is FAR cheaper than JAILFARE, high crime rates,
lowered inner-city property values, huge
court-probation-parole-police systems, and Drug War! There is
ALWAYS unemployment! Only cowardly, sadistic Republicans get off
on attacking those who are worse off in our society. And REPUBLICANS also sponsor the most Drug War
legislation, by far. US Drug-War Republicans are clueless,
xenophobic, Bubba Reich, head-up-their-white-male-ass, sexist,
racist, scapegoating, morons!! May they rot in hell. Georgia's
Newt (Mr. World War II-style Drug Warrior) Gingrich bit the dust!
The other fascist, Drug-Warrior and Georgia-Republican
Congressman, Bubba Bob Barr is next! And I'm a nonracist,
nonsexist, nonhomophobic redneck (and reformed bubba). So kiss my
white ass, Bubba Barr. Any questions?
http://www.drcnet.org/wol/072.html#hastert
*12-98. Livingston Out as Speaker, Drug
Warrior Hastert Set to Take Gavel. [DRCNet's
excellent summary of Hastert's past Drug Warrior fanaticism].|
http://www.marijuananews.com/hastert_files.htm
*12-98. The Hastert Files: New Speaker Of the House
Hailed As "Moderate" Is Extreme Prohibitionist -- 4
Articles. [Another Gingrich Drug War pointman].|
http://www.marijuananews.com/editorial_page_editor_of_the_atl.htm
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1139.a09.html/all
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1130.a09.html/all
*12-98. Georgia's Other Nasty Congressman.
Editorial Page Editor [Cynthia Tucker] of the Atlanta
[Georgia] Constitution. Says "Barr is the Democrat's best
ally." [Article reprinted in several
newspapers nationwide. "Bob Barr: The New GOP
Monster. ... accomplishes nothing but to alienate a
sizable portion of the electorate. ... ultimately rid
the nation of this plague"].|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1009.a05.html
*11-98. US DC: OPED: MMJ: What's
Congress Smoking? [Bubba Bob Barr ridiculed by a
Washington Post (WP) OpEd for blocking publication of vote
results of D.C. medical cannabis ballot!. Reach author at twomeys@washpost.com ].|
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-11/23/143l-112398-idx.html
*11-98. On the Hill, Barring Democracy
[More WP Bob Barr ridicule!].|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1038.a01.html
*11-98. US DC: WP: Get Your Hands off
Those Ballots. ["Robert L. Barr Jr. ...
Democracy Held Hostage, Day 9. ... democracide ... banana
republic canceled an election"].|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1072.a09.html
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1089.a09.html
*11-98. US DC: WP: On the Hill, Barring
Democracy. ["The District is the place, Barr the
ruler. The man who embalmed himself last month in sanctimonious
blather. ... District is a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Hill"].|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98/n1009/a03.html
*11-98. D.C. Won't Give Results Of
Marijuana Referendum [detailed info on Bob Barr
blocking of vote, ACLU and other legal reactions, D.C.'s bizarre
lack of democracy].|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1054.a03.html
*11-98. US CA: OPED: The Drug War Isn't
About Combating Use [More exposure of D.C. vote
blocking, and ultra-right nature of Bob Barr. Facts about
cannabis being linchpin of the Drug War].|
http://www.house.gov/barr/bio.htm
*Congressman Bob Barr's Biography. [ex-CIA!
"in 1998 he led the successful effort to rename Washington
National Airport in honor of President Ronald Reagan.
... received the Friend of the Family Award from
the Christian Coalition"].|
http://www.house.gov/barr/s_swiss.htm
*9-97. Legalization of Drugs? [Georgia Republican
Congressman Bobb Barr's call-out-the-troops speech
in AUSTRIA, where Hitler grew up the first 24 years of his life! Mein
Kampf for today!].|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98/n102/a04.html
*2-98. US: Wire: Clinton, Gingrich
Bicker on Drugs. [Georgia Republican Congressman Newt
Gingrich's "World War II" style Drug War].|
http://www.marijuananews.com/republicans_plan_major_campaign_.htm
*4-98. Republicans Plan Major Campaign
for Drug-Free America [Newt fleshes out World War II
style Drug War. 11/98: Don't let the door hit you
on the way out Newtie! LOL.].|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1090.a03.html
*11-98. Thousands Protest In Georgia Against Army's
'School Of [Assassins].|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1164.a09.html
http://www.legalize-usa.org/newspaper/19981129.wp.htm
*11-98. WP. 7000 rally. 2319 trespass. Georgia's
School of the Americas. (Roots of
CIA-Contra-COCAINE). torture-bounty-Death-squad-manuals.|
http://www.parascope.com/ds/1096/soa1.htm
*Training Tyrants: The School of the Americas. [describes
Death-Squad manuals for US-aided foreign wars. This
can include Drug-Wars/CIA/Contra/cocaine, etc.].|
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1095.a01.html
*11-98. US CA: Prison Shootings Unjustified. [Republican
Dan Lungren's Death Squads].|
Go to the "related links"
section almost at the end of this webpage --
for a list of Republican Drug War webpages that are very
comprehensive webpages. Click HERE to get there instantly.
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Chart Under Construction. Many more
people to be entered. Many links to add. POWs, Casualties,
Heroes, War Criminals. Also trial status, previously tried,
upcoming trials.
http://www.legalize-usa.org/med_mj/links.htm
*Medical Cannabis links. HUGE list! All health aspects. Uses,
safety, groups, etc.|
Medical_Cannabis_Wars._(people_from_all_sides).___________ Alphabetical_Chart_(Click_names_to_search_MAP_archives).__ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________past___past_____________ __________________________________/now___/now_____________ _________________________________________/later___________ _________________________________________________War______ ___________________Hero__Patient__POW____Trial___Criminal_ |
Marvin_Chavez._____!_____!________!!_____!!!_____ Dave_Fratello._____!_____________________________ Laura_Kriho._______!_____________________________ Kay_Lee.___________!_____!_______________________ Dan_Lungren._____________________________________!!! Todd_McCormick.____!_____!________!______!~!_____ Peter_McWilliams.__!_____!________!______!~!_____ Dennis_Peron.______!______________!______!~!_____ Bill_Zimmerman.____!_____________________________ _________________________________________________ |
MAP searches done via clicking names above
are set to "maximum hits to return" of 40.
After you get results you can increase the number, and then hit
the search button again. You can substitute other first and
last names in the URL below to create your own clickable
links in your webpages. Bill Zimmerman is in this example URL
below. Click it!
http://www.mapinc.org/swish?KEYWORDS=Bill+Zimmerman&HITS=40&TAG=B&CONTEXT=ALL+News+%281997-98%29
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http://www.mapinc.org/search/index.htm
*MAP Search. [Try "ALL News
(1997-99)" for a quick search of all articles in the Drug
News Index of full-text press articles. Enter any
words, or any of the names from the chart above (AND OTHERS
TOO)].|
http://www.legalize-usa.org/searchlgl.htm
*Search. [Legalize-usa.org onsite search engine.
Full-text and very fast. Search for anybody's name
above (AND OTHERS TOO), etc.].|
http://norml.org/search/
*NORML search engine of many NORML sites.
Very fast and can continuously refine serach.|
http://search.druglibrary.org/
*DRC Library Searcher / Catalog. [from
DRCNet. Can search materials not only
from the DRCNet library, but also from nearly every
other major reform library on the Web.
Simple or complex searches].|
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http://www.legalize-usa.org/med_mj/marvin_chavez/19981123.htm
*11/98. Marvin Chavez. Background for
Sentencing. Orange County, California.|
http://www.legalize-usa.org/med_mj/peter_mcwilliams/19981201.htm
*12-98. Peter McWilliams being murdered by Feds.|
http://www.marijuanamagazine.com/toc/toc.htm
The Medical Marijuana Magazine. Table of contents.
Many articles about Peter McWilliams, Todd McCormick, other
patients, etc.. One-of-a-kind source of info.
http://www.legalize-usa.org/documents/HTML/mcwilliams1.htm
*Peter McWilliams. [1998 Press release
about Medical Marijuana Press, DEA raid history,
Jesus and medical cannabis, etc.].|
http://www.marijuanamagazine.com/index1.htm
*The Medical Marijuana Magazine [Prelude Press.
inspired Jesus-MJ-leaf illustration].|
http://www.mcwilliams.com/
*The Home Page of Peter McWilliams.
http://gnv.fdt.net/~jrdawson/
*Medical Marijuana Website for your Rights in America...James
Dawsons' Freedom Pages!. [home of Journey for
Justice, Kay Lee, and many medical cannabis POWs,
etc.].|
http://www.drcnet.org/election98/election98.html
*DRCNet special reports: Election '98 (The Drug Policy
Foundation). [Detailed initiative descriptions,
websites, pre-election polls. Med. MJ history].|
http://www.levellers.org/cannabis.html
*Levellers Medical Marijuana Home Page.|
http://www.cannabis.com/linkscgi/links.shtml#medical
*MEDICAL MARIJUANA LINKS GALORE! USES, SAFETY, MYTHS,
FACTS, GROUPS, ACTIVISM, ETC.. Linkname: Medical [cannabis.com:
Cannabis Related Links]. Medical section. Page down
to "medical" section if sent to top of list.|
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In the USA the 1960's "Great Society" War on Poverty has been replaced by the Republican (mainly) War on Drugs. (need more data and URLs please! Email eco@mailcity.com ).
______________________________________ Child_Poverty_Rate.___________________ (Percent_of_children_in_poverty)._____ By_year.______________________________ ______________1996_______1969____1960_ |
______________________________________ Australia._____10_____________________ Britain________half_US________________ Canada.________14_____________________ Germany________half_US________________ Scandinavia.____3_____________________ __(some)______________________________ USA.___________22________13.8_____26__ ______________________________________ |
http://www.legalize-usa.org/tom/charts.htm#links
Click the "related links" section link above
for much more info on why child poverty drastically increases the
drug trade and the drug war. "The
[US] child poverty rate fell throughout the 1960s [because of Democrat President
Johnsons "WAR ON POVERTY"], falling from approximately 26 percent in 1960 to
13.8 percent in 1969. It is
worthy to note that the rate began rising again [after Republican
Nixon reneged on his 1968 election promises for a
rapid "peace with honor" in Vietnam, and after declaring
a "WAR ON DRUGS" in 1971], to more than
20 percent, where it is today" (Senator Christopher Dodd,
Jan. 1995, [bracketed] info added). Until very recently, the last
balanced budget was in 1969! "The
US has the highest rate of child poverty in the industrialized
world , with 22
percent of all children living below the official poverty
line" (EXTRA! Update, Dec. 1995). "One in five American
children lives in poverty, more than double the rate in Germany
or Britain" (Economist, May 25, 1996). In
October 1996 CNN reported that 22% of US children live in
poverty. Some Scandinavian countries were around 3%. I believe
that CNN also had Canada at 14%, and Australia at 10%, or
vice-versa; Im not sure.
http://www.drcnet.org/wol/072.html#appalachia
*12-98. Appalachia: Under the Gun. [DRCNet on
poverty, intensive federal Drug War
intervention, fighting back, War on Poverty history,
latest poverty, etc.].|
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The tables and charts in this article use underscore
spaceholders in place of extra spaces. This is so
that anybody may copy and paste these tables almost
anywhere (try it!), and immediately be able to use
them, without the lines wrapping incorrectly or prematurely
(especially in some message boards with narrower columns), and
without elimination of anything more than one space in a row. I
also avoid dashes in charts. Dashes also seem to cause incorrect
line wrapping when copying and pasting tables. Underscores seem
to work best overall. I even extend the underscores on short
lines to prevent premature line-wrapping. This also seems to
prevent premature line-wrapping when copying and pasting from
webpages to NotePad, WordPad, etc.. Even if you paste them into
message boards, email messages, NotePad, WordPad, etc., the
tables will be comprehensible. Your eye can easily follow each
row across. And even if non-fixed-width fonts are used, one can
figure out the tables, though the columns and rows may not line
up perfectly. Most importantly, many webpage-creation
programs, and some email programs, will delete extra spaces.
In other words they do not allow two spaces in a row. One example
of this is FrontPage 98.
____ One can import text files into a webpage one is editing or
creating in FrontPage. Find or create a text file, or "save
as" something as a text file. From the "Insert"
menu of FrontPage, click "file." Then
when asked you can choose "Normal paragraphs
with line breaks." After importing the text,
then autoconvert all the web address URLs and email
addresses into clickable links by quickly adding a
space after each address. This causes FrontPage to convert them
into clickable links. Then choose a fixed-width font such as
Courier as the font for the charts sections. Save it.
____ When importing text into FrontPage, "Normal paragraphs
with line breaks." works best for me because it keeps the
hard returns (paragraph returns) that I have set up, and doesn't
add its own. Also, it keeps my blank lines, without adding its
own. Only problem is that it deletes extra spaces. For example,
the extra spaces in charts and at the beginning of paragraphs.
That is why I put a blank line or 3 dashes between
paragraphs. Or I may add a few underscores at the
beginning of paragraphs as I am doing for this technical notes
section.
____ The easiest way to get stuff into a FrontPage webpage is to
use FrontPage Editor and just copy and paste directly
from webpage to webpage.
____ I like exposed URL web addresses.
This is so people can copy straight from this webpage even with
the simplest word processor. Plus you can paste the URLs straight
into some autoconvertng message boards, or email programs. They
convert URls into clickable links (usually just by adding a space
after the web address URL).
____ I put 3 dashes between most paragraphs.
That is so that one can "copy and paste" or "save
as" this webpage as text and still have spacing between
paragraphs. Without the 3 dashes the blank line is often
eliminated. Try pasting or saving this to Notepad or WordPad text
and see what I mean. Note that the blank line just above this
paragraph disappears.
____ The same thing sometimes occurs when pasting this as text
directly from this webpage and into an email message. I recommend
doing that. It is a great way to send info to the media, press,
friends, etc.. Tables will be fairly comprehensible. Some email
even allows you to pick Courier, Monaco, or other fixed-width
font for the tables. This is unnecessary if your email allows you
to send stuff as html or RTF. Then you can just paste in any or
all of this webpage without doing anything else.
____ This webpage can be copied and pasted into WordPad and saved
in the universal "Rich Text Format." This saves most of
the formatting (bold, italic, fonts, etc.). Only thing really
missing is the chart colors, borders, and rows. Plus the links
aren't clickable. But they are underlined. But saving this
webpage as html keeps everything the same.
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This section has become so big that it has been
transferred to the following link:
http://www.legalize-usa.org/glasnost/forums.htm
*Message forums with cannabis,
drug-war, entheogen, drug-reform, and drug-related threads.
Web-based bulletin boards. Many Direct Links.|
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Most chat rooms can be accessed at any
time, but you will not usually find anybody else there except at
the listed times.
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http://www.legalize-usa.org/Chat/chatgo.htm *Chat now! [Legalize! U.S.A. chats Saturday and Sunday evenings, 9-11 PM, Eastern Time. Autoconverts web address URLs into clickable links!].| --- http://www.islandnet.com/~creator/cmap/chat/ *MAP chat. [Media Awareness Project. Saturday and Sunday evenings, 9-11 PM, Eastern Time. Accepts html].| --- http://www.hempbc.inter.net/cgi/chatmain.pl5?coffee *Coffee Shop. [Hemp BC. Accepts html such as html clickable links just fine. But html charts may be pushed down too far].| --- http://www.hemp.net/irc/ *Hemp.Net : IRC.| |
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http://www.hemp.net/~darral/local.html *CALL NOW! [local and national talk radio shows, 800 numbers, hours, attitudes toward cannabis, Drug War, etc.].| --- http://www.drcnet.org/drcnn/ * "DRCNet's weekly syndicated radio news show, DRCNN, is already being carried on over a dozen stations, in at least three countries, after just two months of production, and feedback from those stations has been excellent" (The Week Online with DRCNet, Issue #69 -- December 4, 1998. A Publication of the Drug Reform Coordination Network).| --- http://www.hemp.net/Hemphoo/News_and_Media/Radio/ *Hemp.Net : Hemphoo! : News and Media: Radio.| |
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Create, change, edit your own
pages anytime! Some autoconvert URLs to clickable links. Some
need no extra software. There are many, many free webpages,
homepages, etc.. Search Yahoo, etc..
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https://www.tripod.com/ *Welcome to Tripod [loads fast].| --- http://geocities.com/ *GeoCities - The Largest Community on the Web!.| --- http://www.freeyellow.com/members/thewebeasy/ * The WEB Easy * FREE webpages for business, money making ideas or just for fun!!!| --- http://xoom.com/home/ *X O O M . C O M [free homepages, email, chat].| --- https://www.angelfire.com/ *Angelfire Communications.| --- http://pages.whowhere.com/ *WhoWhere? Pages.| --- http://www.chickpages.com/ *ChickPages.| --- http://www.gurlpages.com *Welcome to gURLpages.| --- http://members.hotbot.com/ *HotBot Mail and Homepages.| --- http://auth.ivillage.com/cgi-bin/homepages/display_homepages_login.cgi *iVillage -- The Women's Network -- Build a Personal Homepage.| --- http://www.communityware.com/asp/default.asp *CommunityWare.| --- http://uk.zarcrom.com/freehome.html *Zarcrom Free Homepages. [Long clickable list of free webpage sites. With number of free megabytes at the sites].| |
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--- http://www.november.org/prisoncd.html http://www.drcnet.org/wol/074.html#voice *Prisoner Message CD. Voice of the Prisoner. Audio CD. 25 recorded messages from Drug War Prisoners and family members. Perfect for radio clips, public service, web audio, etc.. Free to radio stations. $11 to others.| --- http://www.drcnet.org/wol/074.html#snitch *SNITCH. PBS video on informants. Info on ordering it, and permission to play it at meetings, etc..| --- http://mojo.calyx.net/~normlca/ninthart.html Ninth Article Video Productions. [2 Exceptional Holland videos in English under $20. VHS and PAL videotapes. With public broadcast approval. That means you can freely put them on public access cable television -- without cost. Transcripts and still pictures online].| --- http://www.crrh.org/hemptv/ *CRRH Presents Hemp TV [WEB TV VERSUS PROPAGANDA!].| --- http://www.freespeech.org/ *Free Speech Internet Television. [VISUAL TRUTH!].| http://www.freespeech.org/scripts/search/search_main.asp?keyword=drugs *Drugs [search of Free Speech Internet Television].| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/TOCs/multimedia.htm *Multimedia. [Legalize! U.S.A. web audio/video against Drug War!]. --- http://www.4thc.com/real.asp?ShopperID=NXVUZS&AffiliateID=default *RealVideo Weed Feeds.| --- |
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http://www.mapinc.org/lists/maplists.htm *Drug Policy Mailing Lists. [Many drug reform lists can be subscribed to or unsubscribed from here].| --- http://www.drugsense.org/lists/ *DrugSense: Mailing List. [This list of lists also has info on how email lists work, and explanations of some of the terms].| --- |
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--- http://www.legalize-usa.org/events.htm *Event Calendar. Legalize! U.S.A..| --- http://www.hemp.net/calendar/ *Hemp.Net : Calendar.| --- |
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Feedback of any kind appreciated. I read all my mail at eco@mailcity.com at least once a week. I can't promise to reply, but I
DO read everything. Please send updated data, URLs, table
ideas, feedback, etc.. Always looking for more recent data and
especially the web address URLs for it. Also really want data and
URLs for completely different charts to add here and elsewhere. I
hope people copy these charts to other webpages. I hope people
mirror the whole thing too. One never knows when this whole
server might go down, or be sabotaged, by the powers-that-be.]
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More
charts:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/graphs/graphs.htm
http://mojo.calyx.net/~schaffer/LIBRARY/graphs.html
http://calyx.com/~schaffer/library/graphs.html
*Charts and Graphs About the Drug War [need more text versions].|
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===================================== Click these comprehensive U.S. Republican Drug War links: --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/gop/links.htm *The U.S. Republican (GOP) Drug War. HUGE list of links. GOP responsible for vast majority of bad U.S. drug-war legislation.| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/tom/charts.htm *Tables and Charts against Drug War, and Petro-Pharm-Inc.. [Exposing the U.S. Republican (GOP) drug-war feudalism, and Republican Fundamentalist Drug War Jihad. Clickable Links and clickable article Table of Contents. Please use eco@mailcity.com to send updated data, URLs, table ideas, feedback, etc.. All is read. Can't promise to reply].| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/tom/charts.htm#healthcare *Universal Healthcare, Total Taxes, Harm Reduction, U.S. Republican drug war, Bubba BOB BARR. Page down to it if sent to the top.| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/documents/HTML/power_links.htm *Power Links [Saner Cannabis and Drug Policies Worldwide. Versus U.S. Republican (GOP) drug war].| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/documents/HTML/power_links.htm#flipside *The Flip Side. The U.S. Republican (mostly) drug war. Page down to it if sent to the top.| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/gop/bob_barr.htm *Big Bubba BOB BARR Busted! Republican (GOP) Moralistic Tyranny. GOP Drug-war Jihad, Sexual McCarthyism, Fundamentalist Fanaticism.| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/legislation/1998dpf-review.htm *11-98. 1998 USA drug war legislation. [A summary. In 1998 Republican (GOP) sponsored nearly all the bad bills].| --- |
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Click
these assorted, related links. --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/documents/HTML/power_links.htm *Power Links [Saner Cannabis and Drug Policies Worldwide. Versus U.S. Republican (GOP) Drug War. (GOP sponsors nearly all the bad U.S. Drug War legislation).]| --- http://www.cannabis.com/linkscgi/links.shtml#research *Nations where cannabis is legal, decriminalized, tolerated. Also, saner drug policies worldwide. Research (Cannabis.com: Cannabis Related Links. Research section). Many nations' links. One-of-a-kind source. Page down to "research" section if sent to top of list.| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/documents/HTML/ideology.htm *Ideology, Idiot-ology, Political Parties, & the U.S. Drug War. All sides of the political spectrum covered. And healthcare.| --- http://www.gnv.fdt.net/~jrdawson/drugwar102.htm *Drug War 101 [1980-97 U.S.] Incarceration rates [& In 2nd half - Progressive nations' cannabis and drug policies. Many links!]| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/report.htm *Shocking Statistics [GOP-Reagan-Bush tripling of incarceration rate through drug war and mandatory minimum drug sentences, etc.].| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/dream.htm *The Drug War and the American Dream [History of Republican (GOP) drug war starting with Nixon].| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/documents/HTML/racism.htm *Racism, U.S. Drug War, Young Black Men, & American Revolution!| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/documents/HTML/violence.htm *Violence, Drugs, Politics, Drug-War prison-industrial complex.| --- http://www.cannabis.com/linkscgi/links.shtml#political *Linkname: Political [Cannabis.com: Cannabis Related Links]. Political section. Page down to "political" section if sent to top of list. Here you will find many Drug-War, Death-Squad links exposing the CIA, DEA, FBI, etc. here and abroad, in Colombia, Latin America, etc..| --- http://www.cannabis.com/linkscgi/links.shtml#medical *Medical Marijuana links galore! Uses, safety, myths, facts, groups, activism, etc.. Linkname: Medical [cannabis.com: Cannabis Related Links]. Medical section. Page down to "medical" section if sent to top of list.| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/med_mj/links.htm *Medical Cannabis links. HUGE list! All health aspects. Uses, safety, groups, activism, etc.. Many links are also lists of even more links.| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/documents/HTML/healthcare.htm *Eco-Harm Reduction versus Drug War and PETRO-PHARM, INC.. Cannabis, US Healthcare, Universal Healthcare, Total Taxes, Quality of Life, Mother Earth.| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/hemp/nicaragua/hemp-agro.htm *1-99. USA-DEA. Canadian hemp farmers in Nicaragua face 20 years prison. [for growing Nicaraguan government-approved hemp crop. DEA control of Nicaragua].| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/death-squad/links.htm *HUGE list of Drug-War, Death-Squad links exposing the CIA, DEA, FBI, etc. here and abroad, in Colombia, Latin America, etc.| --- http://www.legalize-usa.org/glasnost/forums.htm *Message forums with cannabis, drug-war, entheogen, drug-reform, and drug-related threads. Web-based bulletin boards. Many Direct Links.| |
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use or redistribute any or all of it in any way, anywhere. Send
ideas, feedback, criticisms, etc. to eco@mailcity.com and it will be read. This free web-based email account
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Focussed, drug-war, link and chart compilations.
TEST: What is a society called that puts huge numbers OF NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS in the gulags with long mandatory minimum sentences solely on the word of informants who are facing very long prison sentences themselves, and then subjects those prisoners to rampant rape, sex slavery, rampant AIDS, lousy medical treatment, mysterious prison deaths, torture, violence, solitary confinement without any stimulation, stun belts, and so on...? ANSWER: It is a TYRANNY. 2ND TEST: How do tyrannies fall? ANSWER: ??? Roman empire? Third Reich? British-ruled America? Soviet Union? Somoza's Nicaragua? Pinochet's Chile? 3RD TEST: Would you have fought enthusiastically to defend any of these tyrannies?