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Cannabis is safer
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See: Reagan's war on cannabis. And: Holy War on Drugs, Republican-led mass incarceration.

Presidents alone can not reschedule it
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USA. Republican-led war on cannabis
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Drug war, mass incarceration, control
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Felon disenfranchisement & gerrymandering
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Federal judge: Florida’s felon voting restoration flawed. And: Floridians will vote this fall (2018) on restoring voting rights to 1.5 million felons. And: ''' [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/the-slave-power-behind-floridas-felon-disenfranchisement/552269 27 percent of all the disfranchised felons in the U.S. live in Florida. ] '''



Republican-led big spending on drug war
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''' [http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Cost Trillion-dollar Cost of Republican-led U.S. drug war. ]  And: Its racist application.'''.

GOP-led spending on endless ground wars
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''' [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/estimating-the-costs-of-war-then-and-now_us_5a1495d7e4b025f8e93238f2 "$5.6 trillion" for endless Mideast wars that started with Bush and CIA WMD lies about Iraq. ] '''. Interstate Highway System cost $526 billion in 2016 dollars. And: Landing a human on the moon cost $206 billion in 2016 dollars. And: ''' [https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/07/military-veterans-fight-for-medical-marijuana-to-kick-opioid-addiction.html Military veterans defy Jeff Sessions, fight for medical marijuana to kick opioid addiction. Of all the veterans returning from the Middle East, about 60 percent experience chronic pain. ] '''

U.S. infrastructure badly needs this money
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 * America's infrastructure is falling apart — here's a look at how bad things have gotten By Cadie Thompson. Feb. 12, 2018. Business Insider.
 * More than 50,000 American bridges are falling apart. Jan. 29, 2018, by Conor Ferguson. NBC News.

U.S. household debt at all time high
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 * Household debt

''' [https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc.html U.S. household debt at all time high. ]  Chart below from page 3 of PDF.'''  2003 to 2017  (4th quarter).  Total Household Debt by Type: 

Black upward-pointing line is student debt. Cumulative percent increase over time:

U.S. middle class wealth has collapsed
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 *  By Bryce Covert. July 1, 2016. ThinkProgress. "Incomes for the 99 percent have only recovered about 60 percent of what they lost. But the rich are doing great. ... They captured more than half of all the income growth in the country."



Canadian middle class has surpassed USA
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 The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest.'''. ''' Median after-tax income in Canada is higher than in the USA. ''' By David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy. April 22, 2014. New York Times. Why? One reason is that Canadians pay so much less for far better healthcare. 

Many nations surpassed US middle class
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. See  Median wealth is exactly in the middle. 50% of adults have more, and 50% of adults have less. Wealth is all assets (money, stocks, property, etc.) minus all debts.

Tables - Credit Suisse. Scroll down to XLS links. Download the Complete Wealth per Adult Data by Country for 2016 and 2017 (XLS). This was used to create the table to the right. This is only part of the table. See also: Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files. Note that USA is number 24 in median wealth per adult in the table to the right. Canada is number 13.

USA. Richest 10% Own 84% of All Stocks
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 * The Richest 10% of Americans Now Own 84% of All Stocks. Dec. 19, 2017. Time (magazine). "The top 10% of American households, as defined by total wealth, now own 84% of all stocks in 2016, according to a recent paper by NYU economist Edward N. Wolff."
 * Oxfam: 42 Billionaires Hold As Much Wealth As World’s Poorest 3.7 Billion. By Mary Papenfuss. Jan. 22, 2108. HuffPost.

Republicans refuse to raise minimum wage
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''' [https://www.buzzfeed.com/coralewis/trump-era-democrats-now-agree-on-a-15-minimum-wage Democrats, following Bernie Sanders lead, propose bill to raise minimum wage to $15 by 2024. Republicans oppose raising federal minimum wage. ] ''' May 26, 2017. .

Republicans in several states are lowering the minimum wage — yes, you read that right. By Matthew Sheffield. July 9, 2017. Salon. And: Missouri's  Republican  governor signs state law lowering St. Louis minimum wage. . July 3, 2017. And: Iowa's  Republican  governor signs law overturning local minimum wage increases. March 30, 2017.

Chart below is from a Washington Post article on Dec. 29, 2017: ''' [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/29/the-u-s-has-one-of-the-stingiest-minimum-wage-policies-of-any-wealthy-nation "The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation." ] '''

Green love
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The Global Marijuana March is the first Saturday in May. The first Saturday in May is also World Naked Gardening Day. Your marijuana garden needs love too. (see Google search for it). But, be safe!
 * Abortion Rates Dropped Sharply. What Caused It?
 * Free birth control under ObamaCare.
 * Colorado’s Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success. Free birth control.

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 * See: Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare. And: End drug war with universal healthcare. And: Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization.

Average per capita (per person) healthcare cost in above chart includes all costs public and private. Canadian Single Payer: Show health card, get health care paid for by taxes. No deductibles on basic Canadian health care, and co-pays are extremely low or non-existent. And: '''[http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/rip-medical-debt-and-the-push-for-single-payer No bankruptcies and personal medical debt in single-payer countries. ]'''

'''[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/the-american-middle-class-is-no-longer-the-worlds-richest.html Canada passes US in middle-class wealth. Median after-tax middle-class income in Canada is higher.]'''. Why? Canadians pay so much less for far better healthcare. So they have more money in their pocket after paying for healthcare taxes and premiums. And: '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_country Canada has a higher minimum wage. ]'''

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US healthcare spending per person is more than double the average of other developed countries.''



This massive wasteful healthcare spending in the USA (compared to other rich nations) accelerated in 1980 (see chart below). How? '''It happened because non-profit health insurance was taken over by for-profit health insurance companies. They get a cut of all wasteful healthcare spending. The more wasteful, the more profits.''' Such as exorbitant drug pricing, expensive medical devices, overuse of emergency rooms. It is similar to how for-profit prison companies have an incentive to fill more beds, rather than rehabilitate prisoners.

Non-profit health insurance, and single payer healthcare, do not have these perverse incentives. So they tend to use more early preventive care that requires far fewer expensive drugs, devices, and visits to the emergency room and urgent care. Healthcare, like roads, should be publicly financed, and privately built. Private health insurance, like private toll road companies, are a kind of middleman mafia that skims profits, and shuffles papers, but don't actually do any real work.



Chart below shows the percentage of the GDP (national economy) spent on all healthcare costs (public and private) by year for some countries. Note that around 1980 US healthcare costs skyrocketed compared to other rich countries (all of which have universal healthcare, unlike the USA).

Source for above chart: Are any conservatives in the US for a single payer and a universal health care system, or can they not coexist? Chart is from comment around March 11, 2017 by Dan Munro, "author of Casino Healthcare, and Forbes contributor".

10,000 more deaths yearly. Also:
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 * Bernie Sanders' projection of 'thousands' of deaths from lost health coverage is well-supported. By Louis Jacobson. June 27, 2017. Politifact. See article sidebar for many sources. .

10,000 die waiting for disability yearly
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 * 10,000 people died waiting for a disability decision in the past year. Will he be next? By Terrence McCoy. Nov. 20, 2017. Washington Post. "10,000 people died in the past year while stuck in a backlog of judges’ disability cases. ... they can’t work while they wait if they want to be approved."

With Single-Payer Universal Healthcare people get healthcare no matter how much they work or not. And it doesn't matter if they lose their job, or change employers. People don't have to show they are totally disabled to get adequate healthcare. People can try to work now and then as much as their disability allows them, and not lose their healthcare. And they get drug treatment on demand if their pill use gets out of hand.

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''' [https://hightimes.com/news/norways-parliament-votes-decriminalize-illegal-drugs Norway to decriminalize all drugs, likely following Portugal's model. ] '''


 * See: Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization. And: End drug war with universal healthcare. And: Canadian healthcare versus US healthcare. 

'''Portugal has decriminalized all drugs. Like Canada it has universal healthcare. See: [http://cannabis.shoutwiki.com/wiki/portugal Portugal. Cannabis-related links]. See:  Drug policy of Portugal and  Health in Portugal.''' Nearly all of the European Union (EU) has universal healthcare. . See: List of countries with universal health care.

'''[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/portugal-decriminalised-drugs-14-years-ago-and-now-hardly-anyone-dies-from-overdosing-10301780.html Portugal decriminalised drugs 14 years ago – and now hardly anyone dies from overdosing. ] ''' 2015 article by Chris Ingraham. Chart below is from the article. As is the quote below:

"The country has 3 overdose deaths per million citizens, compared to the EU average of 17.3."



In 2014 the USA had 147 overdose deaths per million people.



In 2016 the USA had 185 overdose deaths per million people. < See chart in article, and a similar chart below.









US charts:
 * Overdose stats for the rest of the world.
 * Wikipedia charts: Drug-related death statistics. See the upload page.
 * Overdose Death Rates. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Charts.
 * These Are the Drugs That Cause the Most Overdose Deaths. Chart.
 * Our nation’s drug overdose problem, in five bleak charts.
 * How the opioid epidemic became America’s worst drug crisis ever, in 15 maps and charts.

Ibogaine cure:
 * Wikipedia: Ibogaine.
 * Facebook: Ibogaine Universe!!!!
 * Ibogaine is a healer.

Remove Republicans in 2018 vote
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 * See also: Republican-led Drug War. And: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate. And: Alternatives to Republican-led mass incarceration. And: Cost of Republican-led U.S. drug war. And: Reagan's war on cannabis.And: Drug war, control, and Republican-led income inequality.


 *  Feb. 26, 2018.
 *  Trump approval rating hits new low (35%) in CNN poll. 32% in Associated Press–NORC poll. Lowest in history for a first-year President.  Dec. 19, 2017 article.

When Active-Duty Service Members Struggle To Feed Their Families. April 19, 2017. NPR.


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 * Independents greatly outnumber Democrats or Republicans in the USA. If anti-cannabis Republicans are to be voted out of power, then all Democrat primaries need to be opened to independents. See  Open primaries in the United States. And:  Blanket primary. And:  Nonpartisan blanket primary.
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