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Cannabis is safer
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' - ' - Click state to see which anti-cannabis  Republicans  to vote out.

See: Reagan's war on cannabis. And: Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration.

Presidents alone can not reschedule it
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USA. Republican-led war on cannabis
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 * See:  It shows history of Republican anti-cannabis votes and bills. See longer, broader history: Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration. And: Reagan's War on Cannabis. And: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate.

The Cannabis War is over and the U.S. Republican Party has lost. They may not know it yet, so keep marching, lobbying, and voting! Please register and vote! See: Happy alternatives to Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.

 Jan. 29, 2017.



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. 



Republican-led big spending on drug war
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 And: Its racist application..

GOP-led spending on endless ground wars
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See: Wars and drug wars on demand.''

. 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. ] '''



 . Starting in 1900. Click to enlarge. . See  History of the United States public debt.

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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See: Income inequality and drug war.''
 * Household debt

 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:

Canadian middle class has surpassed USA
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See  List of countries by wealth per adult‎.

  Median after-tax income in Canada is higher than in the USA.  The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest.'''. 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. 

U.S. middle class wealth has collapsed
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See: Income inequality and drug war. Share: 



. And: Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world. See Wealth in the United States.

Many nations surpassed US middle class
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'''Note that is number 25 in the list. is number 14.'''

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

See also: Income inequality and drug war.

USA. Richest 10% Own 84% of All Stocks
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See: Drug war, control, and Republican-led income inequality.''


 * 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.

Record global debt. Who will bail out USA?
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Who will buy US government debt in the next global recession?

Global Debt Jumped to Record $237 Trillion Last Year. By Alexandre Tanzi. April 10, 2018. Bloomberg.



See Category: Charts and graphs.

US income inequality, and falling wages
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 Real wages are adjusted for inflation.



Instead of paying higher wages, and higher minimum wages. As Canada does.

Increasing income inequality over time. Chart below from:  Dec. 17, 2017. New York Times.

     
 * Income Inequality Is At The Highest Level In American History. 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."
 * Google News search: student debt.



     

Chart below: Top 10% of earners receive 50% of all income:

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.

More info: Under Trump, real wages are not just flat, they are falling.

Green love
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Hug a friend, hug a tree, smoke a tree! 5 Benefits Of Forest Bathing. And: Replacing Vacant Lots With Green Spaces Can Ease Depression In Urban Communities.



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!



. Free birth control.
 * Abortion Rates Dropped Sharply. What Caused It?
 * Free birth control under ObamaCare.

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

Average per capita (per person) healthcare cost in chart below includes all costs public and private. See  List of countries by total health expenditure per capita.

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. ]'''

Massive wasteful spending in US healthcare
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The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care. July 16, 2018 by Austin Frakt. New York Times. And: The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest.. April 22, 2014 by David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy. New York Times. Median after-tax income in Canada is higher than in the USA. One reason why is that Canadians pay so much less per person for far better healthcare. So they have more money in their pocket after paying for healthcare taxes and premiums.

 All costs, public and private.

. For more recent data see:  List of countries by total health expenditure per capita.



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.

 We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars go to something other than health care. And: Universal healthcare and drug war.



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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 By Louis Jacobson. June 27, 2017. Politifact. See article sidebar for many sources. .''

10,000 die waiting for disability yearly
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 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.

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

Data Shows More U.S. Imprisonment Does Not Reduce Drug Problems. And: 39% of U.S. Prisoners Should Not Be in Prison.

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 * City of Vancouver calls for decriminalization of drug possession. "The city says drastic action is needed as its overdose death total continues to climb". CBC News. Mar 09, 2018..
 *  Norway to decriminalize all drugs, likely following Portugal's model.  Dec. 19, 2017.

 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. ] ''' By Chris Ingraham. Chart below is from the article. As is the quote below from that 2015 article:






 * 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.







Chart below: "Drugs Involved in U.S. Overdose Deaths* - Among the more than 72,000 drug overdose deaths estimated in 2017*, the sharpest increase occurred among deaths related to fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (synthetic opioids) with nearly 30,000 overdose deaths."

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.

Global Marijuana March and 420 photos
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 Marches, rallies, and medical cannabis made cannabis popular.



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Vote out most Republicans in 2018
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' Otherwise stagnation will happen again, as happened in the ' after the initial wave of state decriminalization in the USA in the 1970s.

See also: Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration. And: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate. And: Cost of Republican-led U.S. drug war. And: Reagan's war on cannabis.And: Income inequality and drug war. And: Happy alternatives to Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.


 *  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. And: The hidden crisis on college campuses: Many students don’t have enough to eat. April 3, 2018. Washington Post.

26 Sep 2018: '''[https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/sep/26/state-s-top-2-execs-say-no-to-issue-5-v Republican Arkansas governor signals opposition to minimum wage ballot issue. His Democrat opponent in the November election supports raising the minimum wage].'''  Wages adjusted for inflation. 25 Sep 2018. Forbes.



Republicans and Libertarians oppose helping workers through increases in the minimum wage. They only care about making the rich richer.