I don’t want this to be a downer, because New Year’s Eve is my absolute favorite holiday of the year. New beginnings and all that (not to mention great parties!). But on this New Year’s day I’m a little bummed after reading some bleak news about the "war on drugs". According to Paul Armentano, the senior policy analyst for NORML:

America now spends nearly $50 billion dollars per year targeting, prosecuting, and incarcerating illicit-drug users. As a result, the population of illicit-drug offenders now behind bars is greater than the entire U.S. prison population in 1980. Since the mid 1990s, drug offenders have accounted for nearly 50 percent of the total federal prison population growth and some 40 percent of all state prison population growth. For marijuana alone, law enforcement currently spends between $7 billion and $10 billion dollars annually targeting users — primarily low-level offenders — and taxpayers spend more than $1 billion annually to incarcerate them.

Read the full article here. And in spite of that, drug use is virtually UNCHANGED. It makes me so mad I could spit, to think of the idiots that run this country - Democrats and Republicans alike. Aren’t they getting tired yet of beating their heads against a brick wall that won’t go away? I keep waiting and waiting for someone to GET A CLUE.

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