Some Of The Effects Of The War On Drugs

The U.S. federal government spent over $19 billion dollars in 2003 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $600 per second. The budget has since been increased by over a billion dollars and State and local governments spent at least another 30 billion.

Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy

Arrests for drug law violations in 2006 are expected to exceed the 1,678,192 arrests of 2003.

Someone in America is arrested every 20 seconds.

Source: Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Nearly 4,000 new HIV infections can be prevented before the year 2006 if the federal ban on needle exchange funding is lifted this year.

About 10 new cases could be prevented every day.

Source: Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco

Yet the plant remains illegal today!