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News. See: News sources. Facebook: GCM-420. Social media: Tags. Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage. It's not socialist: List of minimum wages by country. And: Medicare-for-all, like Canada, is not socialist. US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. [7]. Vote!  21 Jun 2019: Maine Legislature overwhelmingly approves recreational marijuana rules.  12 Jun: Ohio. Cincinnati City Council votes to allow marijuana possession up to 100 grams. [12]
4 Jun: Oakland Just Decriminalized Magic Mushrooms, Ayahuasca, Peyote, Iboga. [21]. And: 8 May 2019: Denver voted to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms. 18 June: Is Canada next for shrooms? Sao Paulo, Brazil. -- June 1, 2019. Huge crowd. Photos. [22][23]. Marcha da Maconha. Marijuana March. Streets filled from end to end in overhead photos and videos. Video.
2. Please share widely: [24].  See: Source. 31 May: Federal Appeals Court Rules DEA, Fed. Govt. Must 'Promptly' Reassess Marijuana's Illegality. 31 May: Illinois Becomes 11th State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana. Return to top.
9 May 2019: Mexico Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs and Negotiate With the U.S. to Do the Same.  Cardiff, UK. Cannabis March. May 4, 2019. Media. 4 May: Illinois. Democrat governor (with Democrat legislature) announces plan to legalize marijuana.
3 May: 'Luxembourg Can Set an Example in Europe' When It Legalizes Cannabis in 2020. [28][29].
1 May 2019: Las Vegas council approves marijuana ‘social’ lounges. 30 Apr: Large-Scale Cannabis Business Park in Detroit Will Train Past Marijuana Offenders. 30 Apr: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (Republican) says Senate won't pass bill to lower penalties for marijuana. 29 Apr: People Over 40 Shouldn't Work More Than 3 Days a Week, Study Says. [40]. Return to top. Yearly GCM-420 city lists and maps. 27 Apr 2019: Why Senate Republicans block and filibuster the rescheduling of cannabis (even for medical purposes): Marijuana can block a green card holder’s U.S. citizenship — even in states where it’s legal. 24 Apr 2019: Will legal pot mark the end of the neighborhood weed man? Exorbitant dispensary prices.
History of 420 in cannabis culture and activism. 10 Apr: Medicare For All: Accept No Substitutes. [43][44]. Medicare spends only 1.4% on bureaucracy:  Canadian healthcare and Portuguese decrim. See Facebook chart. Weekly totals for cities/towns worldwide for #FridaysForFuture youth strike for climate.  Think Global, act local. Video: A teenage climate activist (Greta Thunberg) called out world leaders in December 2018 at age 15. [45][46][47]. Her videos have tens of millions of views. Wikipedia: School strike for climate.  Glasgow, Scotland, UK. April 20.  Mexico City. May 4. Global Cannabis March. Return to top. Return to top.  20 Feb 2019: U.S. Supreme Court Rules Unanimously That States Cannot Impose Excessive Fines. This limits ‘policing for profit’, asset forfeiture.
19 Feb: The Nursing Home With A Medical Cannabis Program The Feds Can Live With.
19 Feb: Oregon's small towns revel in weed tax windfall.
17 Feb: He pushed for marijuana legalization for nearly 20 years. Now the Weedman feels sidelined. [51][52]. And: Bodega owners, too. 14 Feb: Democrat Senator Tim Kaine introduces bill to allow veterans access to medical marijuana through VA. Will Republican Senate block it?  Source. 22 Jan 2019:
Say Goodbye to authoritarian kings and US Presidents. No European democracy has an executive veto power requiring a 2/3 vote to override. Wikipedia: Nuclear Option: Bring back "50% plus 1" democracy to the US Senate: Stop the: Republican Senate filibuster against federal marijuana legalization. Still true. See Wikipedia: Removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. 2 in 3 Americans Support Legalizing Recreational Marijuana. 11 Feb 2019: Senator Kamala Harris acknowledges smoking weed in the past, supports legalization, and says it gives people joy. [53].  24 Jan: Philippines and Bangladesh. Drug-war extrajudicial killings of many opposition leaders. 23 Jan: Pot advocate John Sinclair sues state of Michigan over Schedule 1 status. 23 Jan: Here's the Medical Cannabis Super Bowl Ad CBS Refused to Run. [57]. 22 Jan: Pot website offers free medical marijuana to government workers amid shutdown. 22 Jan: Michigan business offers free marijuana with book-bundle purchase. 20 Jan: New Zealand company gets licensed for high THC cannabis. 16 Jan: Virginia House Republicans snuff out marijuana bills. Even decriminalization with civil fines. Return to top.  As Poll Shows Majority Back 70% Top Marginal Tax Rate for Ultra-Rich, Ocasio-Cortez's "Radical" Proposal Proves Extremely Mainstream. [59][60]. 
 See chart. [1]. And source article. Return to top. 
 See source. And: The Richest 10% of Americans Now Own 84% of All Stocks. [61]. See Wikipedia: Wealth inequality in the United States. See: Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult. Partial table below: Note that USA is number 21 in the 2018 list. Canada is number 8. 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.
| Country
| Median wealth | per adult. US dollars 1
| Iceland
| 203,847
| 2
| Australia
| 191,453
| 3
| Switzerland
| 183,339
| 4
| Luxembourg
| 164,284
| 5
| Belgium
| 163,429
| 6
| Netherlands
| 114,935
| 7
| France
| 106,827
| 8
| Canada
| 106,342
| 9
| Japan
| 103,861
| 10
| New Zealand
| 98,613
| 11
| United Kingdom
| 97,169
| 12
| Singapore
| 91,656
| 13
| Spain
| 87,188
| 14
| Norway
| 80,054
| 15
| Italy
| 79,239
| 16
| Taiwan
| 78,177
| 17
| Malta
| 76,116
| 18
| Ireland
| 72,473
| 19
| Austria
| 70,074
| 20
| South Korea
| 65,463
| 21
| United States
| 61,667
| 22
| Denmark
| 60,999
| The average median wealth per adult for Canada is much higher than for the USA, a former great nation. Trump is right. America is no longer great. It's due to Republican trickle-down voodoo economics: Giving tax cuts mainly to the rich instead of to the middle class and poor who actually need them. Combined with predatory mortgage loans and foreclosure. And predatory unforgivable student loans. And predatory medical bills and high deductibles from predatory for-profit health insurance companies. Return to top.  
It Would Take Oregonians 7 Years to Smoke All the Weed They Harvested This Year. [67][68][69][70]. Return to top.
18 Dec 2018: California Regulators: Cities Can't Ban Recreational Marijuana Deliveries.
17 Dec 2018: U.S. Student Loan Debt Sets Record, Doubling Since Recession. $1.465 trillion. 14 Dec 2018: Federal judge forces Trump administration to cancel $150 million in student loan debt.
Luxembourg’s New Deal: Free Transit (summer 2019) and Legal Weed (by 2023). [73]. 7 Dec 2018.
27 Nov 2018: The president's job approval is at 38 percent while his disapproval numbers are at a record 60 percent. And: America's 'war on terror' has cost the US nearly $6 trillion and killed roughly half a million people.  See Facebook comments. Trump storms ahead with Medicaid work rules, even though they’re disastrous for enrollees. By Los Angeles Times.  Fentanyl. 2 mg. A lethal dose in most people. 50 times smaller than a lethal dose of heroin. Source. 19 Nov 2018: Greece eyes pot of gold as medicinal cannabis licensed. 18 Nov 2018: Couples offer marijuana at weddings. 18 Nov 2018: Here's what's behind Mexico's radical move toward legalizing marijuana during its war on drugs 18 Nov 2018: How Democrat and medical cannabis activist Nikki Fried became Florida’s agriculture commissioner. [75][76]. 16 Nov 2018: 16 Nov 2018: It's now cheaper to build a new wind farm than to keep a coal plant running. 16 Nov 2018: Oregon marijuana prices plunge – and sales soar. 12 Nov 2018: Michelle Obama says smoking pot was 'part of her becoming story'.  Mysterious interstellar object floating in space might be alien, say Harvard researchers. USA Today. Interstellar Cannabis March! The mysterious flying joint! 6 Nov 2018. Michigan Legalizes Recreational Marijuana. 10th state to do so. Return to top. Marijuana In The Governor's Mansion: Record Number Of Democrat Candidates Say Legalize It.  1 Nov 2018: Mexico's Supreme Court effectively legalized weed in an effort to eliminate gang-related violent crime. [82][83]. Bernie Sanders: 3 people own more wealth than the bottom 50% of Americans. [84]. And: Happy alternatives to Republican poverty. Thailand is Poised to Become the First Asian Country to Legalize Medical Marijuana. [85][86]. 30 Oct 2018: The World's Largest Weed Dispensary Is About to Open Near the Las Vegas Strip. Medicare spends less than 2 percent on bureaucracy. 1.4% to be exact. See chart. We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars go to something other than health care. See also: Trump approval hits new low (35%) in CNN poll. 32% in AP–NORC poll. Lowest in history for a first-year President. [88]. Bring back democracy: Remove Presidential veto power. And: Senate 60% rule.   See: More News. And: Cannabis is safer. And: Cannabis polls. Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war.
CannabisVoter.info - Click your state to see which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out. Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool - Ballotpedia. Enter address. Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [89][90][91]. Timeline. Trump's staggeringly low approval ratings compared to other presidents. Scroll down. Run mouse cursor over Presidential charts. Updated continuously. Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage. Return to top. This news feed may have long lapses.
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Polls before and after the first Global Marijuana March in May 1999. Global marches, rallies, and medical cannabis activism overcame the propaganda that massively escalated with
Reagan's war on cannabis.
It is sometimes difficult to get national and international media to cover the Global Marijuana March. But there is a lot of media coverage locally in many cities, including TV coverage. Many times even with just a few marchers. It really matters because it normalizes cannabis users in people's minds. "Oh, it is those yearly marijuana marchers again. No big deal." So more and more people get used to the idea, and go to the next steps of passive and active decriminalization. Such as looking the other way, limited legalization of possession, and eventually full legalization in some places. Kind of like how laws against interracial couples and marriage were ignored. Osmosis. See the large crowd shots worldwide.
Register and vote for cannabis.
2019
19 Apr 2019: Support for marijuana legalization hits new high (65%), CBS News poll finds.
2018
22 Oct 2018: 2 in 3 Americans (66%) Support Legalizing Recreational Marijuana. [92]. By Gallup Poll.
26 Apr 2018: Poll: Support for legal marijuana hits all-time high (63%). By Max Greenwood. The Hill. Quinnipiac University poll. "Support for legalization hit 63 percent in the survey — the highest level of support recorded by a Quinnipiac poll".
2017
As of late 2017 polling even Republicans support recreational marijuana legalization. [93]. But not Republican politicians. CannabisVoter.info - Click on your state to determine which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out of office.
| From early 2017: There’s Only One Demographic That Still Thinks Marijuana Should Be Illegal. Republicans. See: Quinnipiac poll done Feb. 16-21, 2017. And: Pew Research poll results from September 2016. |
- March 29, 2017 article: Public support for marijuana legalization surged in 2016. By Christopher Ingraham. Washington Post. Timeline of polling from 1973 to 2016 by General Social Survey, the gold standard for public opinion research. Note the surge of support for legalization starting around 2005. Denver voted to legalize in 2005, the first major US city to legalize small amounts of marijuana.
- Pro-pot arguments fly higher with likely voters. March 8, 2017 Science Daily. More info: [94] [95].
- Quinnipiac poll: 71% oppose enforcing federal marijuana laws in states where the drug is legal. February 25, 2017 article.
2016
For the first time more Australians support legalizing pot than oppose.
- Surge in support to decriminalise marijuana, multi-decade survey finds. By Heath Aston. December 25 2016. The Sydney Morning Herald.
The polls that matter the most are elections.
US states that have legalized as of the Nov. 8, 2016 election:
| States that have legalized. |
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| Current medical marijuana states, with map. And: Clickable MPP map. And: Clickable NORML map. |
2015
See Reagan's war on cannabis. Above timeline is adapted from one of the charts in this article:
| Latest Gallup Poll Shows Only 2-in-5 Americans Oppose Marijuana Legalization. By Russ Belville. October 21, 2015. |
- See also: inmystride.blogspot.com and Canadian opinion poll results.
2014
- U.S.: New Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization. 28 Jan 2014. Hemp News. From the article:
Americans ages 18 to 34 favor marijuana legalization by a huge 49-point margin -- almost three of every four in this age group expressed support. Among those aged 35 to 49, just more than half said they support legalization, compared to 49 percent of those 50 to 64, reports Rebecca Ballhaus at the Wall Street Journal. Those over 65 oppose it, 59 percent to 38 percent.
2013
- In U.S., 38% Have Tried Marijuana, Little Changed Since '80s. 2 Aug 2013, by Lydia Saad. Gallup Politics.
2012 May. U.S. adults
- Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana: New Poll - Toke of the Town.
- Americans Decry War on Drugs, Support Legalizing Marijuana. Angus Reid Public Opinion.
"Across the country, 52 per cent of Americans support the legalization of marijuana, while 44 per cent oppose it. Majorities of men (60%), Independents (57%) and Democrats (54%) would like to see marijuana legalized. Women (45%), respondents over the age of 55 (48%) and Republicans (43%) are not as supportive of legalization. In four nationwide surveys conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion on the topic of marijuana legalization since 2009, support has always surpassed the 50 per cent mark in the United States, and opposition has not reached 45 per cent."
"Methodology: From May 29 to May 30, 2012, Angus Reid Public Opinion conducted an online survey among 1,017 American adults who are Springboard America panelists. The margin of error—which measures sampling variability—is +/- 3.1%. The results have been statistically weighted according to the most current education, age, gender and region Census data to ensure a sample representative of the entire adult population of the United States. Discrepancies in or between totals are due to rounding."
2012 May. Likely U.S. voters
- 56% Favor Legalizing, Regulating Marijuana - Rasmussen Reports. From the article: "A new national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 56% favor legalizing and regulating marijuana in a similar manner to the way alcohol and tobacco cigarettes are regulated. Thirty-six percent (36%) are opposed to such a legalizing and regulating pot."
2010 July. U.S. adults
Rasmussen poll. Source. 43% say marijuana should be legalized, and 42% disagree. While half of Democrats (51%) support legalizing marijuana, 62% of Republicans are opposed. Voters not affiliated with either major political party lean toward legalization by a 48% to 35% margin. The survey of 1,000 adults was conducted on July 21-22, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. They were simply asked whether or not they believed marijuana should be legalized.
2009 December. U.S. voters
A December 2009 poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion finds that 53% of Americans support legalizing marijuana, 43% oppose, and 4% are not sure. See: Most Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana. Poll question was "Do you support or oppose the legalization of each of the following drugs?" Methodology: "Online interviews with 1,004 American voters, conducted on Dec. 3 and Dec. 4, 2009. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent."
2009 April. U.S. adults
"It’s not just a California poll. A WashingtonPost/ABC survey, also released last week, revealed that 46 percent of Americans support legalization of small amounts of marijuana for personal use — that’s double the support it had a decade ago." - May 6, 2009. Christian Science Monitor. Article titled "Legalize marijuana? Schwarzenegger says let’s debate it." Actual poll: "Washington Post-ABC News Poll". Poll conducted April 21-24, 2009 of a random national sample of adults. The Washington Post. ABC News.
2008 US presidential election
"The Zogby poll, commissioned by the conservative-leaning O'Leary Report, surveyed 3,937 voters and found 52 percent in favor of legalization. Only 37 percent opposed." - May 6, 2009. "Majority Of Americans Want Pot Legalized: Zogby Poll". The Huffington Post. See also: "New Poll: 52% Say Marijuana Should Be Legal, Taxed, Regulated." May 06, 2009. Salem-News.com. "Is marijuana tax the next revenue stream?", by Michael B. Farrell. May 11, 2009. Chicago Sun-Times.
- *3,937 voters weighted to match the 2008 presidential outcome -- 54 percent Obama voters and 46 percent McCain supporters.
Voters were asked: "Scarce law enforcement and prison resources, a desire to neutralize drug cartels and the need for new sources of revenue have resurrected the topic of legalizing marijuana. Proponents say it makes sense to tax and regulate the drug while opponents say that legalization would lead marijuana users to use other illegal drugs. Would you favor or oppose the government's effort to legalize marijuana?"
Cannabis is safer
Return to top. See article: Cannabis is safer. Share link: Obama.
- Obama correctly said that cannabis is safer than alcohol. See: Cannabis is safer. He also said marijuana should be treated more as a public health issue than a criminal one. And: Obama signals support for legalizing medical marijuana. [96]. See video.
- USA. 1 in 10 deaths of working-age adults are alcohol-related (disease, overdose, car crashes, falls, violence, etc). 87,798 per year, 2006 to 2010. [97][98][99][100][101].
See longer article: Cannabis is safer.
- Imagine if Mitt Romney had been elected President in 2012 instead of Obama.
- Obama on marijuana legalization. [102]. "My suspicion is that you’re gonna see other states start looking at this". The Washington Post. Jan. 22, 2015.
Above quote is from Sanjay Gupta interview of Obama on April 15, 2015. Interview aired on CNN on April 19, 2015. [103][104][105].
- Obama administration asks Supreme Court to reject lawsuit filed by Republican governments in Oklahoma and Nebraska to stop legal marijuana in Colorado [106]. December 2015.
 Obama helped turn around the Reagan-Bush War on Pot, mandatory minimums, mass incarceration. See: US incarceration peaked in 2008. |
Polls. Need for activism
Return to top. See: Cannabis polls.
Two in Three Americans (66%) Now Support Legalizing Recreational Marijuana. 22 Oct 2018. By Justin McCarthy, Gallup. See: CBS poll at 65%. 19 Apr 2019. This is after decades of activism such as cannabis marches, events, education, referendums, and more. See: cannabis polls and activism. We march until all the anti-cannabis US Republican leaders are removed from office. The majority of Republicans overall now support full cannabis legalization, but many of their leaders do not. The Republican US Senate is a pseudo-democracy. See Wikipedia: Nuclear Option. A minority of Republicans block federal cannabis legalization via a radically expanded filibuster rule allowing a minority of 40% to rule. Combined with the threat of presidential vetos requiring a 2/3rds vote of Congress to override. No European democracy has such authoritarian executive vetos. Their kings, presidents, and prime ministers were stripped of such power. USA. Life for Pot. Under Trump There were 70,200 overdose deaths in 2017 in the US due to the Republican-led drug war under Trump. We need to look at Portugal, where their overdose death rate, HIV, and hepatitis rates, were all drastically reduced after decriminalization and a public health, universal healthcare, treatment-for-all approach.
Life for Pot. Under Trump
USA. Life for Pot. Under Trump
66% support legalization
Two in Three Americans (66%) Now Support Legalizing Recreational Marijuana. [109]. By Gallup Poll. See: CBS poll at 65%.
Cannabis versus cigarettes
Return to top. See: Cannabis is safer.
Chart is for regular marijuana and cigarette use by 12th graders in the USA in the past 30 days. For cigarettes actual daily use is measured. For marijuana it is for use on 20 or more occasions in the past 30 days.
Green line is for marijuana. Dark blue/purple line is for cigarettes.
Trump's drug war has
Killed 70,200 in US in 2017
US yearly overdose deaths, and the drugs involved. Among the more than 70,200 deaths in 2017, the sharpest increase occurred among deaths related to fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (synthetic opioids) with 28,466 deaths. Source.
Republican cannabis war
Return to top. See also: Cannabis is safer.
Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war.
| Legal Marijuana Advocates Rank The Best And Worst Governors On Cannabis. 2.. By Tom Angell, Jan 16, 2019. From the article (emphasis added): |
| Of the governors who received passing grades in the new scorecard, 22 are Democrats and only five are Republicans. Meanwhile, 100 percent of those who got A grades are Democrats. On the other end of the scale, the 15 who got D grades and the four who received an F are all GOP governors. No Democrat got less than a C. |
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Register and vote for cannabis.
CannabisVoter.info - Click your state to see which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out.
- 23 Feb 2019: Trump Continues to Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana.
Senate blocks cannabis
Return to top. See also: Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war.
US Republicans block the federal rescheduling or descheduling of cannabis.
Wikipedia: Nuclear Option: Bring back "50% plus 1" democracy to the US Senate: Stop the:
Republican Senate filibuster against federal marijuana legalization. Still true.
| 16 July 2018: Republican Congressional Committee Blocks Marijuana Votes (Again). |
| 10 July 2018: Republican Congress Has Blocked Dozens Of Marijuana Amendments. |
Say Goodbye to authoritarian kings and US Presidents. No European democracy has an executive veto power requiring a 2/3 vote to override as with US presidents. Their kings, presidents, and prime ministers were stripped of such power.
US Republican war on poor
Return to top. Income inequality and drug war.
Canada versus USA
- Wikipedia: Cannabis in Canada. Recreational cannabis is legal in Canada.
Single Payer costs less
See charts in these articles:
- Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
- Happy alternatives to US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.
| Medicare-for-all is single-payer, non-socialist, non-government-owned, Canadian-style healthcare. | |
| USA spent $3.3 trillion on healthcare in 2017. (2.3.4.). Canada got better outcomes, spent half as much per person, and thus has a higher median wealth. So: 70% of Americans support 'Medicare-for-all'. (2.3.) | Households with handguns: Canada: 3%. USA: 30%. |
| Country | Median wealth per adult 2018. US dollars | Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP. 2017 | Murder rate per 100,000. 2016 |
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| Canada | $106,342 | $4,826 | 1.7 |
| USA | $61,667 | $10,209 | 5.3 |
| 2017: US spent 17.2% of GDP (national economy) on healthcare. - Canada: 10.4%. See article with info, charts, videos exposing US Republican myths about Canadian healthcare. (2.) |
| Country | Life expectancy 2016 (2) | Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2017 | Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 82.8 years | 5.1 | 7.3 |
| USA | 78.5 years | 6.6 | 26.4 |
Portugal's drug decrim
Return to top. See: Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization.
Portugal's drug decriminalization. 2.3.4.5. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2.
USA had 185 overdose deaths per million people. From 2016 chart in article. Also, see chart below.
Portugal had 6 overdose deaths per million people.
Chart of the day: Drug overdose deaths per million persons. Can the US learn something from Portugal? • AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas. By Mark J. Perry @Mark_J_Perry - July 9, 2017. See chart:
How Europe's heroin capital solved its overdose crisis. By Chris Brown. Apr 25, 2017. CBC.ca. "Goulao says 90 per cent of public money spent fighting drugs in Portugal is channeled toward those health-care goals — just 10 per cent is spent on police enforcement."
- Portugal. Cannabis-related links. Also has links about Portugal's drug decriminalization.
Healthcare for all costs less
Return to top. Share link: longcanada.
Total healthcare cost per person in Canada and Europe is half of what Americans pay per person in taxes, deductibles, copays, and premiums. This is because health insurance companies have much less to do with healthcare there. Drug prices are negotiated. And universal healthcare is about prevention and keeping people well, and not about continually "treating" them and keeping them profitably sick. See info, charts, and videos in this article:
| US spent 17.2% of GDP (national economy) on healthcare in 2017. - Canada spent 10.4%. See article with info, charts, videos exposing US Republican myths about Canadian healthcare. (2.) |
| Country | Per capita spending on health. Public and private costs. USD - PPP. 2017 | Healthcare costs as a percent of GDP. 2017 | % of health costs paid by gov't. 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| (refs> | 6. | 7. | 8. |
| Australia | $4,543 | 9.1 | 67.8 |
| Canada | $4,826 | 10.4 | 70.3 |
| France | $4,902 | 11.5 | 78.8 |
| Germany | $5,729 | 11.3 | 84.6 |
| Japan | $4,717 | 10.7 | 84.1 |
| Sweden | $5,511 | 10.9 | 83.9 |
| UK | $4,264 | 9.7 | 79.2 |
| USA | $10,209 | 17.2 | 49.1 |
| USA spent $3.3 trillion on healthcare in 2017. (2.3.4.). Canada spent half as much per person, and got better outcomes. 70% of Americans support 'Medicare-for-all'. (2.3.) |
| Country | Life expectancy (years). 2016 | Under-five mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2016 | Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| (refs> | 1. | 2. | 3. 4. 5. |
| Australia | 82.9 | 3.8 | 5.5 |
| Canada | 82.8 | 4.9 | 7.3 |
| France | 82.9 | 3.9 | 7.8 |
| Germany | 81.0 | 3.8 | 9.0 |
| Japan | 84.2 | 2.7 | 6.4 |
| Sweden | 82.4 | 2.9 | 4.4 |
| UK | 81.4 | 4.3 | 9.2 |
| USA | 78.5 | 6.5 | 26.4 |
| Videos. US Republican myths about Canadian healthcare: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96. Nations with better and healthier quality of life: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. |
Drug company price fixing
12 May 2019: Sweeping lawsuit accuses top generic drug companies, executives of fixing prices. On 60 Minutes. CBS news. From article: "But 1,215 generics, many of them the most prescribed drugs, jumped on average more than 400 percent in a single year. ... 90 percent of all prescriptions filled in this country are filled with generic drugs."
Huge cost of deductibles
2 May 2019: Trumpcare: Health insurance deductibles soar, leaving Americans with unaffordable bills. Los Angeles Times. 26 Mar 2018: Why thousands of Americans Are Risking It and Skipping Health Insurance. Bloomberg News.
Medicare for all costs less
16 Jul 2018: The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care. New York Times.
10 Apr 2019: Medicare For All: Accept No Substitutes. [110][111]. Medicare spends only 1.4% on bureaucracy:
Related charts. See image source on Facebook.
And is not socialist
A higher minimum wage is also not socialist. Canada has a higher minimum wage than the US: List of minimum wages by country.
Drug war is expensive
Cash bail costs taxpayers
Ground wars are costly
- $5.9 trillion is the cost of America’s wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, etc..
Hemp for all
- Google search: The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Jack Herer. Chris Conrad.
| 12 Dec 2018: Veto-proof Farm Bill passed overwhelmingly by Congress. American farmers will be able to plant and harvest hemp. It could spark a boom for the $1 billion marijuana-linked CBD industry. 2. |
Children's Climate Action
Weekly totals for cities/towns worldwide for #FridaysForFuture youth strike for climate.
Facebook video with captions. A teenage climate activist (Greta Thunberg) called out world leaders in December 2018 at age 15. See comments and number of views by clicking on the video after it starts. Another popular version. Her videos have many tens of millions of views. See the full version on Youtube. It has a transcript in the description. There are many versions online. See Wikipedia: 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference. See: Thousands of UK Students Skipped Class to Protest Climate Change. Feb 15, 2019. Many photos.
- Wikipedia: Greta Thunberg. And: Wikipedia: School strike for climate. Many events worldwide.
- Google search: greta climate. Twitter: #FridaysForFuture #SchoolStrike4Climate #ClimateStrike.
- Wikipedia: Voting age. Voting age of 16 in many countries. Youth have more sense than US Republican climate change deniers.
Darwinian evolution turning into US Republican politician evolution:
Green Love. Warming &
Democrat Congresspeople in the US support cannabis reform and the environment much more than Republican leaders. Republican misogyny as represented by Donald Trump is only matched by Republican misogyny for Mother Earth. Partly due to Trump the number of Democrat women in Congress increased in record numbers after the 2018 midterm election. The number of Republican women in Congress declined after the 2018 election. See Wikipedia: 2018 United States elections.
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Nevada 2018. First US state with majority-female legislature.
18 Dec 2018: Nevada becomes first US state with majority-female legislature. This was partly due to voters dumping the trump morons (Republican leaders) who opposed recreational cannabis. Nevada legalized recreational cannabis in 2016.
Overpopulation
Overpopulation is the main driver of global warming. Free birth control is part of the solution. The Little Ice Age is believed to have been partly due to the reforestation that occurred during the hundreds of years of lower human population caused by the Black Plague worldwide.
Colorado’s Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success. Free birth control. July 5, 2015. New York Times.
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7 July 2015: As with cannabis legalization Colorado led the way.. More info. 2.3..
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Wikipedia: Population milestone babies.
- 9 June 2015: Abortion Rates Dropped Sharply. What Caused It? "According to a survey released by the Associated Press on Monday, abortions have dropped by 12 percent nationwide since 2010. ... the correlation between increased access to contraception and a decrease in unplanned pregnancy has been significantly documented over the last two decades. Teen pregnancy rates have been dropping to historic lows, a trend that has been connected to the change in social norms surrounding contraception and increased birth control availability."
- ObamaCare Birth Control - Obamacare Facts. Free birth control.
President Eisenhower was
A progressive Republican.
He wasn't a socialist. His
- They tried to call FDR and the New Deal 'socialist' too. Here's how he responded. By Michael Hiltzik. Feb 13, 2019. Los Angeles Times.
91% top marginal tax rate
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Hires Former Marijuana Lobbyist As Senior Advisor. By Kyle Jaeger. January 7, 2019. Marijuana Moment. From the article: "Both believe that marijuana should be legalized at the federal level".
Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal.
7 Jan 2018: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is floating a 70 percent top tax rate — here’s the research that backs her up. And: Haters. And: Dancegate.
Eisenhower, the progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s.
That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.
Make America Progressive and Prosperous for More Again. 
As Poll Shows Majority Back 70% Top Marginal Tax Rate for Ultra-Rich, Ocasio-Cortez's "Radical" Proposal Proves Extremely Mainstream. [112][113].
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Median wealth per adult. Credit Suisse 2018. Country links below are to Wikipedia articles.
Country Median wealth
per adult.
US dollars1 Iceland 203,847 2 Australia 191,453 3 Switzerland 183,339 4 Luxembourg 164,284 5 Belgium 163,429 6 Netherlands 114,935 7 France 106,827 8 Canada 106,342 9 Japan 103,861 10 New Zealand 98,613 11 United Kingdom 97,169 12 Singapore 91,656 13 Spain 87,188 14 Norway 80,054 15 Italy 79,239 16 Taiwan 78,177 17 Malta 76,116 18 Ireland 72,473 19 Austria 70,074 20 South Korea 65,463 21 United States 61,667 22 Denmark 60,999 -
& lower middle-class taxes
Overall taxes on the middle class in the US were lower in the 1950s
Equals prosperity for more
Eisenhower, the progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s.
That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.
- Viral meme says 1956 Republican platform was pretty liberal. Article by PolitiFact says it is mostly true. See Wikipedia: PolitiFact.
Vs Republican Party today:
Increasing income inequality
| Stock owned by richest 10%. | |
| 2016 | 84% |
| 2013 | 81% |
| 2001 | 71% |
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."
Rich get richer; while middle class wages are flat (inflation-adjusted), and the federal minimum wage (inflation-adjusted) has declined.
USA. Since 2001, labor’s share of national income has suffered a sustained decline. 11 Sep 2018.
See chart. [6]. And source article.
And lower minimum wage
Return to top. See: Under Trump, inflation-adjusted real wages are flat.'
The top line in the chart below is for hourly wages adjusted for inflation: Bottom of chart below says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."
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Inflation-adjusted federal minimum wage over the years. "The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation." See: Charts.
Kleptocracy, drug war, and
| Republican Party. Greed, ground wars, drug wars, and mass incarceration. |
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Source. 22 Jan 2019: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A system that allows billionaires to exist alongside extreme poverty is immoral. -
Wage slave waking up -
See: map source. U.S. Dept. of Labor. Map of states with higher minimum wage than the federal minimum wage. Note that slavery still exists in the Republican South. Wage slaves. -
Wikipedia: Minimum wage in the United States. Wikipedia: Fight for $15. -
That illegal smile Republican leaders don't like.
Mass incarceration
- US still has the world's highest incarceration rate. The Republican-led drug war and Republican/NRA-led implementation of mandatory sentencing caused it.
Chart. Homelessness is increasing under Trump. And: Inflation-adjusted wages are flat.
| The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world due to the Republican-led drug war, and the Republican/NRA-led campaign for mandatory minimum sentencing. 29 Mar 2019: Republican history of support for the Bail Bond Industry, and cash bail for people accused, but not convicted, of nonviolent crimes. 2.3.4. 30 April 2019: How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons Into Big Profits. |
OECD (developed democracies). Incarceration rates in chart below. See source info. And: Wikipedia:List of countries by incarceration rate. And: Wikipedia: Comparison of United States incarceration rate with other countries.
Vote
Return to top. Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war.
Prosperity for all is not sustainable without universal healthcare, progressive taxation, higher taxes on the rich, lower taxes on the middle class, a high minimum wage, and a sustainable population. None of this is socialist. It is common sense. Money wasted on health insurance companies, drug wars, and most ground wars, helps no one.
Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration.
Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage. 2019-20 elections. See: Medicare-for-all, like Canada, is not socialist. Vote for cannabis!
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