Feeding The Gangs

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Feeding The Gangs
75,000 Chicago Gang Members
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Drug-War Guns

• Prohibition I

• Prohibition II

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Drug-War Violence
April, 2009 32 Chicago Public School Kids Killed
so far this school year.
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Drug-War Prisons
Note 2.3 Million Behind Bars in US, one in every
100 adults. Highest rate of incarceration in the
world. (PEW Report, 2008.)
Note 800,000 marijuana arrests annually in US.
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Drug-War Enforcementand Sentencing Disparity
Excerpt African-Americans in Cook County were
imprisoned for drug offenses at 58 times the rate
of white people the seventh-worst racial
disparity among large counties nationwide,
according to a new report. Chicago Tribune,
12/4/07.
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16 Tons of Cocaine and Drug-War Sub
Excerpt The 45-year-old Colombian designed
and built 20 fiberglass submarines, strange craft
with the look of sea creatures, for drug
traffickers to haul cocaine from his area of
southern Colombia to Mexico and Central
America. Cost per vessel -- 1 Million.
Chicago Tribune, 12/21/08.
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The QuestionWhy has the Drug War raged so long
while failing so mightily and causing so much
harm?

• The Answer The Drug-War Gravy Train.
• The Answer The bad guys and the good guys
  are both on the same side of the line of
  scrimmage, both in favor of the Drug War.
• Who is against it?

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LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITIONLEAP.cc_____
_______________Are You?
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Other Drug-Policy Strategies

• U.S. Drug Policy Pre-1970 and Pre-Harrison
  Narcotics Act of 1914
• Swiss Heroin Maintenance Program
• Coffee Shops of Amsterdam
• Medical Marijuana in 14 U.S. states and growing
• Methadone Clinics
• Safe-Injection Sites
• Clean Needles
• Prisons Reserved for Violent Offenders 1st
• Legalized Drugs for Addicts Only
• Portuguese Drug Decriminalization
• Legalize, Tax and Regulate Drugs Alcohol Model